It’s that time of year again!! While Snickers had the crown of the most popular Halloween candy for a long time, there’s a new champion now–can you guess what it is? Which of these is your favorite? I know I’m old now because my favorite (3 Musketeers) isn’t even on the list… Read More…
Category: Retail Trends
Retail trends
Yet Even More Evil Food Packages
Once again, this time from Buzzfeed, here’s a bunch of food packaging that SHOULD be illegal somehow but just isn’t. In some cases it could just be an error in packaging or making the food, but a lot of them are just blatant attempts to misrepresent the product. (3 pepperoni pizza? Cmon.) It’s the same Read More…
Just Some Thoughts on Covid And The Future of Retail
Haven’t posted on here for a while but just wanted to post some observations on how Covid has affected retail in general and what it may portend for the future. One of the effects has been the loss of employees both in retail stores and restaurants. Many of them either left due to fears Read More…
Which Size Goes On The Right?
Decades ago when I started working retail, I learned a basic rule of merchandising when building displays or setting shelves–if you have multiple sizes of an item, the larger size goes on the right. So if you have say Listerine mouthwash in 3 sizes, you would merchandise them as follows: 12 oz—-18 Read More…
Things You Must Stop Doing To Retail Store Employees In The Age Of Coronavirus
Although I’m not currently working, I feel for my friends who still are at work and for all the grocery store and other retail employees who are on “the front lines.” Buzzfeed came up with this list and I agree with all 19 of them. Do the right thing everyone! 1. Don’t bring your whole family Read More…
Employees Are Getting Chipped. And I don’t mean the Lays kind.
So a small Wisconsin business has managed to convince their 40 employees to get microchips embedded in their hands, just so they don’t have to wear a name badge or have to log on to a computer. They were given “I Got Chipped!” t-shirts to commemorate the event. Of course the company says they’re not Read More…
17 Failures From Companies Who Should Have Known Better
If you’re over 40 you probably remember the fiasco that was New Coke, but there are many other examples of companies who launched a new product without really thinking it through (or doing enough market testing.) Nowadays they test the hell out of everything and there’s still the occasional failure, but none will probably ever Read More…
Dumb Catchphrases That Corporations Need To Stop Using
Below is a list from Cracked.com of 21 catchphrases that businesses have taken up that are just a waste of words. They got a lot of my pet peeves but here’s a few more that bug the heck out of me: “Huddle with your employees”–are we playing football? Let’s just MEET with them. ” I’ll Read More…
25 More Evil Packaging Designs
And here’s the rest of the list. The pizza in #29 is especially egregious. I guess we just have to accept the fact that packaging is created to mislead us and take the time to read the label. Or, just lower your expectations. I recently was given a box of Cracker Jacks for the first Read More…
Emotional Labor?
A video popped up on my Facebook about a Walmart employee who was being disciplined by his store manager for using his phone on the floor AND being disrespectful to the manager by not responding when he was talked to. While the manager, in my opinion, lacked some people skills in the way he handled Read More…