Christmas Sales Season Heats Up As Technology Hits A High Note
Monday, November 12th, 2012Tweet Another Christmas holiday season is almost upon us and this is the time of year we start to think of buying Christmas presents if we haven’t already. Retailers will be reaping the benefits from the holiday season since it is the biggest time of year they have to incur sales and so they will [...]
Field Agent Canada Celebrates Its First Year!
Sunday, October 28th, 2012Tweet It has been quite a year since Field Agent first started in Canada. Currently there are over 12,000 registered Field Agents working coast-to-coast gathering retail intelligence data for our wide-ranging base of customers from retailers to vendors to foodservice operators. Field Agent could not have come at a better time with the increasing popularity [...]
Field Agent Canada Joins FCPC
Saturday, September 1st, 2012Tweet We wanted to share with you that Field Agent Canada has been accepted as an Allied Member of Food and Consumer Products Canada which is Canada’s largest industry association representing the companies that manufacture and distribute the vast majority of food, beverage and consumer goods found on grocery store shelves. “We look forward to [...]
Retail Decoder: Have You Ever Wondered???
Friday, July 27th, 2012Tweet We all have questions about weird, strange or mysterious things that we see in the retail environment. But where do we turn for the answers? From time to time, we will try to solve some of these mysteries and put to rest that curiosity bug that strikes you from time to time. This week [...]
Impacts On Canadian Retailers Of The Impending Target Canada Launch
Saturday, July 21st, 2012Tweet Recently, Target announced a complete list of all 125 locations that will be opened in Canada in 2013. It also announced the time frame by province that each store will open. Fourty eight stores will open in spring, twenty in summer, twenty-five in fall and thirty-two in winter. Ontario stores will open in all [...]
Introducing The Field Agent Canada E-Newsletter
Sunday, June 24th, 2012Tweet Since early 2010, we at Sales Is Not Simple have been publishing our weekly e-newsletter covering the news and analysis of our industry and the response has been phenomenal! Today, over 2300 subscribers are receiving this newsletter each Monday morning and it is the leading source of industry news to both the vendor community [...]
International Retailers Attracted To Canada
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012Tweet As of late, there has been an ever increasing number of American and International chains showing interest or setting up shop in Canada. American retailers have been heading up north to delve into international expansion. Canada presents a closer, more familiar and less risky market as opposed to Europe or Asia. According to Ian [...]
Canadian Retailers Valentines Day 2012
Saturday, February 11th, 2012Tweet Valentine’s Day is one of the biggest gift-giving holidays of the year. The National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 2012 Valentine’s Day Study revealed that the average person will spend US$126.03 this year. This is the highest level in the last 10 years. The survey also revealed that in the United States consumers will spend $4.1 [...]
Extreme Couponing: Why Sales & Marketing Need To Better Coordinate Discounts
Friday, April 22nd, 2011Tweet American specialty cable channel TLC started reruns this week of “Extreme Couponing” which highlights the lifestyle and couponing tactics of shoppers who dedicate huge amounts of time and resources to using supermarket coupons to deliver huge savings (up to 98%) for their family. It is intriguing television, but for those of us in the [...]
A Sign of The Times – November 1st
Monday, November 1st, 2010Tweet Halloween’s Over and Christmas is Coming! The cycle never ends.
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