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3 Practical Applications for Wine & Spirits Industry News and Trends

Articles, Featured

Keeping up with industry news and trends is one of the most underrated disciplines in beverage alcohol. It’s a frightening habit, admittedly — slowing down long enough to read or at least skim several articles every day when the return on…

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How to use Surveys to Improve Execution at Retail

Articles, Retail Space Management, Sales Execution

Lots of companies do surveys. Surveying is important, especially at the beginning of key selling periods to drive execution, but most companies do it all wrong and waste the effort they put into the survey. You have…

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Convenience Stores Perform Market Basket Analysis To Increase Profitability

Articles, Data Analytics, Retail Space Management

One of the most valuable pieces of information in the Convenience Store industry revolves around your customers’ buying habits, their market basket analysis. Understanding your customers’ behaviors to develop effective merchandising strategies…

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Take Control of Your Convenience Store Purchasing Data

Articles, Data Analytics, Retail Space Management

The glory days where distributors offered full guarantee on all spoilage seems to be gone and in general we see a trend of more and more activities being pushed downstream and your convenience store purchasing data is becoming more and more…

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Wine Depletion Data and its Influence on the 3 P’s

Articles, Data Analytics, Retail Space Management

How important to you is knowing your actual inventory level with your distributors? Or knowing which product is being sold out of which retailer? Some may say, not very, since your books already reflect a sale. Others may reason that it’s…

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Convenience Stores Increase Profits Through Waste Management & Spoils

Articles, Data Analytics, Retail Space Management

All convenience stores are aware of the impact of waste on profitability. At the corporate level, are you getting access to the waste data in a timely fashion so you can quickly remedy the situation? Store Managers are often head down busy,…

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Unified Wine & Grape Symposium Makes an Impression

Articles, Events, News

Wow!! That’s some show. Having worked in the wine industry for more than eight years, I’ve seen the number of details that contribute to a beautiful glass of wine. Just not all in one GIANT room. Unified Wine & Grape Symposium sure makes…

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How To Improve Your Results by “Getting in the Game”

Articles, Retail Space Management, Sales Execution

Many companies in our industry are doing things the old fashioned way. Their common practice is to review monthly reports of sales summarized by geography and or product, then react by applying pressure to “do better” down the chain…

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Wine Business Intelligence guy visiting Unified in Sacramento

Articles, Events, Retail Space Management

I’ve heard about Unified in the past, and for the first time I’ll attend Jan 28-30. I’m told the waiting list for vendors is more than a year long to have a booth. That sounds like a lot to me. And some have asked why I’m going to…

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6 ways to avoid scope creep in your next BI project

Articles, Data Analytics, Sales Execution

One of the greatest threats to a successful Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence project is scope creep, and the consequence is often a poor return on investment – or even failure, if not managed properly. We define “scope creep” simply…

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