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INDEPENDENT RETAILER magazine is now the official news outlet for Wholesale Central visitors. Each monthly issue is packed with new product ideas, supplier profiles, retailing news, and business strategies to help you succeed.

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02/01/2008 - Kapa Boosts Profits
Everyone knows that a great customer experience is critical for BUSINESS success.

02/01/2008 - Harvey Files Chapter 11
Harvey Electronics, Inc., based in Lindenhurst, NJ, filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

02/01/2008 - Golden Compass Increases Web Sales
I have noticed a recurring problem among merchants who have contacted me to help them increase their website sales.

02/01/2008 - Flipping Over Flipo
Jerry Philippeau accidentally entered into BUSINESS while he was a singer/songwriter living in Los Angeles, California.

02/01/2008 - Durable Spending Slips
An index established by Deloitte Touche to track consumer spending on durable goods offers a less than positive outlook.

02/01/2008 - Bolster Global eCommerce
Global eCommerce has incredible possibilities when it comes to sales. Buyers are able to find the best prices, and sellers can connect with the greatest number of customers.

01/01/2008 - Time for Updated Fixtures?
As a storeowner, how do you know when it is time to invest in updated fixtures?

01/01/2008 - Retail Crime and eFencing
The House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security recently held a hearing, in preparation for new legislation aimed at cracking down on organized retail crime.

01/01/2008 - Generating Post Sale Buys
In the last column I provided ten sure-fire ways to reduce your shopping cart abandonment rate.

01/01/2008 - Entrepreneur Earns Success
Scott Lumley is the epitome of an entrepreneurial spirit.

01/01/2008 - CloseoutCentral.com: The Ultimate Source
For over ten years, CloseoutCentral.com has been the leading online marketplace for buying and selling closeout merchandise, and it just keeps getting better.

01/01/2008 - Awesome Treating Buyers Like Family
Awesome Wholesale is a full line scale designer, importer, distributor, and wholesaler.

12/01/2007 - What Do Buyers Want?
In a world crowded with counterfeits, shoppers are drawn to the authentic, a characteristic that retailers must learn to earn.

12/01/2007 - Price Perfect Gems
Morfra Designs manufactures a full selection of designer sterling silver jewelry for women, with some designs for men, totaling over 6,000 styles and new designs added daily.

12/01/2007 - PCI Compliance Update
There are few things more important for ecommerce sites than being PCI DSS compliant.

12/01/2007 - One Stop Shopping At Ohio Wholesale
The concept for Ohio Wholesale, Inc. began more than thirty years ago, when Nick and Terry Harbarger traveled to Mexico to purchase giftware items, which they sold in the US.

12/01/2007 - Home Depot Targets Women
Home Depot's newest retail laboratory has opened in Charlotte, SC.

12/01/2007 - FashionPenny.Com: Demand Drives Sales
Whoever said there is no such thing as easy money was not a wholesale buyer of jewelry from FashionPenny.com.

12/01/2007 - ECommerce Helps Small Biz
A growing percentage of revenue generated by small retailers is being derived from eCommerce transactions.

11/01/2007 - Why Pros Need Vertical Search
"Vertical search." You have probably heard the term thrown around, and you might have even used it.

11/01/2007 - Stress Shopping Experience
Retailers and shopping center owners need to do more than put products on shelves and hope that consumers will buy them.

11/01/2007 - Source for Great Deals
After 12 years in BUSINESS, Discount Wholesale in Chester Springs, PA continues to expand its offerings of closeouts.

11/01/2007 - Small Biz Seeks Health Care
Rising healthcare costs are among small BUSINESS owners' top concerns, according to two recent studies

11/01/2007 - Pewter Dezigns
Pewter Dezigns was born from co-owner Ann McNally's fascination with symbology.

11/01/2007 - Night Lite Aroma Lamps
L&V Creations offers a brand new line of exclusive products.

11/01/2007 - NFIB Battles Death Tax
Small BUSINESS has geared up to battle two tax issues that impact them.

11/01/2007 - Master of More Than Price
Twenty years ago, PriceMaster, a wholesale distributor in Woodside, NY, wholesaled about 1,000 different products throughout the tri-state area from a warehouse of a few thousand square feet.

11/01/2007 - Immigration Rule Challenge
The Small BUSINESS Administration (SBA) has weighed in on the side of groups that are challenging a regulation regarding what an employer should do when notified that an employee's Social Security number doesn't match government records.

11/01/2007 - Five Steps To Successful Pay Per Click
There are three ways to grow a BUSINESS.

11/01/2007 - Beaver Gumball Machine
Beaver Gumball Machines, the Cadillac of the industry and previously available only to wholesalers and distributors, now has a consumer version available for resellers.

10/01/2007 - OfficeMax Aids Small Biz
VistaPrint Ltd., an online supplier of graphic design services and customized printed products for small BUSINESSes, is going into retail stores through an alliance with OfficeMax Inc.

10/01/2007 - New Daily Closeout Alert Newsletter
A brand new service is available to online buyers to help find closeout and liquidation merchandise.

10/01/2007 - Linking Housewares To Foods
Today's specialty food market is vibrant and growing, and it's an opportunity for housewares retailers to grow their BUSINESS

10/01/2007 - Gift Giant Joins Santa's Pen
Although kiosks and carts are increasingly present all year long, they swell by double digit proportions during the fourth quarter holiday season, propelled by none other than Santa.

10/01/2007 - Fun Friends
In 1998, Julian Parry, CEO and co-founder of Fun Friends, a company that manufactures novelty cell phone covers, was a man with a vision, but he did not know it.

10/01/2007 - Awesome Heavyweight in Scales
The Barmes family followed a long walk down the Main Street of their hometown, Vincennes, IN, to end up as a dominant supplier of scales to a wide range of markets.

09/01/2007 - Web Profits: Proven How-To Strategies to Skyrocket Web Sales
Last month I presented the importance of knowing your website performance numbers. Knowing these numbers enables you to decide where to focus your efforts, including time and money to increase your website sales.

09/01/2007 - Vertical Search Engines
Vertical search engines are not new. Websites that help users find people, shop, and get BUSINESS information have existed for years. But the number of these search engines being introduced has greatly increased in recent years.

09/01/2007 - Travel Security Case
SECURE-IT INC. introduces Travel Safe, a security case designed to help BUSINESS people and other travelers protect valuables and important documents when they're on the road.

09/01/2007 - Smarts & Sweat Equal Turnkey Success
Any reliable product supplier to a kiosk or cart program will want a prospective operator to have a BUSINESS plan for success.

09/01/2007 - Shrink Is Big
Retailers' loss to theft is higher than many realize. Just ten percent of major retailers believed their level of shrink was high in comparison to their competitors, according to one recent study.

09/01/2007 - Shoe Stores Consolidate
The Finish Line Inc.'s agreement to buy Genesco Inc. for $1.5 billion brings 2,850 shoe stores under single ownership

09/01/2007 - Protecting SS Numbers
Be as careful with employees' confidential information as you are with your own.

09/01/2007 - Private Label Booms
The nation's top retailers are differentiating by using private brands that customers can't find elsewhere.

09/01/2007 - Orbitz Biz Site
Orbitz Worldwide, the online travel service, has expanded its Orbitz for BUSINESS managed booking tool for small BUSINESS with a new self managed travel site.

09/01/2007 - Match Landing Pages To Messages
Web retailers that are good at developing personalized email campaigns often lose potential BUSINESS because of lackluster page optimization, according to a study from Silverpop Systems Inc.

09/01/2007 - HSAs And You
Research measuring small BUSINESS owners' knowledge of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) has disclosed an information gap.

09/01/2007 - Harborplace Kiosks
General Growth Properties Inc., the owner of Baltimore's Harborplace, has put a dozen retail kiosks on the Inner Harbor promenade that faces Harborplace, and plans to add more.

09/01/2007 - Diversify Finances
When a BUSINESS is in its first years of existence, it's very tempting for an entrepreneur to put every cent toward building the company, often at the expense of a personal financial portfolio.

09/01/2007 - Buying Made Easy At MegaDropshippers.com
While the Internet has changed the landscape of BUSINESS dramatically, many times value of a good sales offer still reigns supreme.