A quick note that I will be at the Fancy Food Show at the Moscone Center from January 16 - 18. We will be trawling the floor, visiting some of our current suppliers and looking for new and innovative consumer products our customers may appreciate and enjoy.
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Running a retail operation is quite like navigating between Scylla and Charybdis, the very daunting tasked face by the Homeric hero, Ulysses. How so?
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out of stock,
backstock,
inventory,
retail pricing,
SRPs
Many people may remember the 1994 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number one song by REM. The song itself was taken from a strange encounter between Dan Rather and a slightly off-kilter duo who kept pressing him with that inscrutable and now memorialized question.
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club store
We are very excited about Brent & Sam's cookies, which we just added to our lineup under our Lance Direct Specialty Store. While not as well known as some of our other brands, Brent & Sam's cookies, made from scratch, and to order, are the absolute favorites of retailers and their customers.
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Painful Mistake #5 - Buying the Wrong Products and Pricing Incorrectly
Retailing is both an art and a science -- and many hotel managers have a very good sense of aesthetics from their experience designing and operating hotels. It's the science part that may be elusive.
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Tradavo CEO,
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club store,
retail science
Painful Mistake #4 - Going to the Club Store
Let's face it -- we all love going to Sam's, Costco, BJ's and the Wal-mart superstore for personal purchases as well as for some hotel supplies from time-to-time. Products stacked a mile high and new and interesting products make going to the Club Store a real adventure -- a treasure hunt, even.
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Tradavo CEO,
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Costco,
Sam's Club,
BJ's
Painful Mistake #3 - Using your Buying Group for Hotel Retail Purchases
This is a very common, but painful mistake. Buying Groups, also known as Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) are a very well considered concept for purchasing many items for hotels -- including furniture, fixtures and equipment, and in some cases, food service items.
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hotel pantry,
hotel supplier,
wholesale snack distributor,
Bobby Martyna,
Tradavo CEO