The Small Retailer: Very Important and Useful Retail Facts That May Assist You

Among the many various retail facts that exist, a few of the more pertinent are as follows:

Almost 70% of typical shoppers feel that their needs are not first in the minds of retailers
Most shoppers (almost three quarters) are prone to buy the item they want when they first find it, and more than half know specifically what they want when they go shopping
Almost half of today’s shoppers do not enjoy shopping in large stores, but they do so because they feel there is a better chance of finding the merchandise they want
About half of all shoppers say that saving time is more important than price – particularly men
Location continues to be an extremely important factor in your retail success – unless you have an extremely compelling reason, your customers will not spend a lot of time and energy locating you.

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The Small Retail blog is offered by Atlanta Retail Consulting Inc. Pat Fitzpatrick, President of Atlanta Retail Consulting Inc, operates the business from Alpharetta, GA.

Pat has provided Management Consulting services to retailers and consumer products firms since 1982 after joining the best-known retail operational consulting practice in the US at the time. In 1992 Arthur Andersen acquired that practice and Pat assumed both a consulting sales and partner oversight role for the southeast. In 1996 he became a Director in Arthur Andersen, assuming responsibility for all US Arthur Andersen retail consulting sales.

In 1998 Pat left Arthur Andersen and accepted a partner role in a competing consultancy, later becoming a senior partner in the firm. In 2004 he left his position to form Atlanta Retail Consulting Inc.
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His current practice provides deeply experienced retail consulting services to a broad variety of retail and consumer products organizations with a team of consultants chosen based upon their demonstrated retail experience base and success in consistently delivering premium consulting assistance to the industry.