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How Do We Properly Staff Up for the Holidays?

How Do We Keep Hot Items on the Shelves?

"Teachers who desire to increase learners’ ability to understand and learn will also use visuals. Most people will learn better and remember longer when you present ideas by using pictures, maps, word groupings, or other visuals rather than merely speaking" Hakuna Matata

Retail Replenishment - Fidget Spinner Faux Pas Merchandise, Allocation, Retail, Replenishment, Fidget, Spinner, Sales, Demand, Angry

Workforce Planning - Temp Hire Tantrum Merchandise, Allocation, Workforce, Planning, Temporary, Holiday, Projection, Communication

Fraudulent returns - Money for Nothing How Do We Put An End To Fraudulent Returns? Product, Returns, Fraud, Retail, Shopping, Customer, Service, CSR, Inventory

Store Processes Merchandise Allocation Loss Prevention - Right From Under Our Noses Theft, loss, prevention, shopping, check, steal, receipt, greeter, report, CCTV

Merchandise Planning - Black Friday Blitz Merchandise, Planning, Allocation, Black Friday, Customer, Angry, Television, TV

Return categorization (malfunction, missing parts, damaged packaging) - Whirlwind of Returns Product, Returns, category, accurate, customer, service, CSR

BORIS (buy online, return in-store) - Why Can’t We Be Friends? Product, Returns, BORIS, on-line, physical, brick, mortar

Improper Refund - Show Me The Money! Product, Returns, Refund, Cash, Improper, Process

Shelf Labels - Sale Tag Switcharoo Discounts, Sales, Shelf, Labels, Print, Complaints, Customer, Manager

Online Price Match - Price Match Snatch Discounts, Sales, Price, Match, Online, Competitor, Salesperson, Customer, Mobile

Combining Discounts - Double Discount Dilemma Discounts, Sales, Price, Coupon, Double, Policy, Rules, Transaction, Report

Post-Sale Pricing - The Neverending Sale  Discounts, Sales, Price, Advertisement, Flier, Policy, Manager

CSR Theft - Get out of my Drawers! POS, Terminals, Point, Sale, Theft, Cash, CCTV, Loss, Prevention, Security

No Barcode - Barcode on a Banana   POS, Terminals, Point, Sale, Barcode, Scan, Transaction, Time  

System Down Issues - System Down!  POS, Terminals, System, Freeze, Down, Transaction, Customer, Purchases

Card Swiper - Pay Delay POS, Terminals, System, Card, Reader, Failure, Swipe, Strip, ATM, Customer

This is an example of low-tech ways to provide customers and employees pricing information. Pricing in plastic quick roll device is faster for some item prices than in a computer. Low tech solutions are also supported Micro-Actions.