Sales = Traffic x Conversion: The Complexities of a Simple Equation

Knowledge of traffic and conversion is essential to measure and maximise sales opportunities across stores, however the knowledge of traffic and conversion by category display within the store reveals the mysteries of the shopping experience and promises the riches of increased sales productivity for every gondola, wall and precious retail square metre.   What retail success boils down to is selling as much as possible to as many people as-

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6th Joy of a Retail Spring – Secrets behind Product Sales

Any good retailer knows from its product sales what its customers’ buy and equally what seems to be impossible to sell to them, but why? Do you know why? Is it simply the wrong product, or perhaps something more subtle in the colour, the size, the style or the taste, or simply something as obvious as the price point? Proper analysis of sales figures combined with benchmarking of competitor assortments holds the key to-

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