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Knowledge Portal: Ensuring Brand Quality and Consistency—Meet the Auditing Experts Who Deliver!

When you’re a brand with multiple locations, one of the keys to capturing and retaining consumer loyalty is delivering a consistent, quality experience. Consumers want to know that when they see your name on a storefront, they can go inside and get the same great product quality, service and overall experience they’ve come to expect […]

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Trending Tastes: Crazy for Coconut—Does It Live Up to the Hype?

Once demonized as a source of unhealthy saturated fat, coconut has seen an impressive resurgence in the last five years. From coconut water to oil to chips, consumers now seem ready to snatch up nearly anything with coconut in its name. According to Packaged Facts, coconut water alone netted over $100 million in 2012. And […]

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Executive Perspectives: From the President

Brett Barcelona, President and General Manager Retail Services Accountability in Action We all spend time at the beginning of each year defining the results we need to achieve in the year ahead. Those goals and related action plans, if executed successfully, ultimately lead to the realization of the strategy we are pursuing. We are well […]

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Editor’s Corner: Following the Trends

In the five years Retail News Insider has been in production, we’ve covered a lot of up-and-coming trends. Some have become part of the mainstream, some have fallen flat and some, it turns out, we had to wait just a little longer to see them really take off. That’s what seems to be the case […]

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