Retail Benchmarks - Defining Best Practices for the Retail Industry

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Research Release

Retail Benchmarks is finally making a subset of its valuable research available without benchmark participation. Take advantage of the first Best Practice Insights release - Store Sales and Labor Metrics - and find out the best way to measure and manage labor performance in your company! This is a comprehensive discussion of leading and lagging KPI's, PI's and PM's for store labor.

This Month @ Retail Benchmarks

Where Labor planning and Scheduling Meet

Happy 2010!

During the first quarter of 2010, Retail Benchmarks consultants are exploring in depth the transition from labor planning to scheduling, and how best to optimize both tools. Stay tuned for free research in this area!

Today's Challenge

Retailers, like other industries, are continually striving to improve their performance and staying power. Forward-thinking retailers wanting to achieve breakthrough performance improvement results must change their focus from internal process measurement to competitive industry benchmarks. After all, who doesn't want to be among the companies that others look to when they describe 'what the best retailers do?'

Our Solution

Retail process measurement and improvement is a key and important way for companies to achieve and sustain success.

Through benchmarking research and reports, retailers receive a unique perspective that enables them to compare their bottom-line results to standard retail performance metrics of similar retailers. In addition, and as importantly, we benchmark key process related characteristics so that the retailer can understand and define and take specific actions to improve outcomes.