After you connect with Facebook, Savor selects an assortment of stores and categories you may be interested in, and lets you further customize those suggestions by clicking the store names and categories that appeal to you (e.g. "Women's Apparel," "Shoes," "Toys," Computer Accessories," etc).
"Given Wal-Mart's expertise in supply chain management, it's essential that they put this skill to good use micro-managing assortments by store," according to Richard Seesel, another RetailWire BrainTrust panelist writing in a recent online discussion.
It required the people responsible for merchandise assortment to visit stores daily, added log books at each register where sales clerks entered suggestions from shoppers, and introduced a review process so the staff visiting stores could make recommendations to buyers.
There were demands for more commercial styles and reissues of his earlier designs, leading to what retailers described as a confusing assortment in the stores, and, according to several colleagues of Mr. Ghesquière, the designer's frustration.
The lack of a Whole Foods or Citarella is made up for by a scattershot assortment of specialty stores: bakers, butchers and grocers run less by district managers and more by local shopkeepers who know your name and your children's names.
"It's surprising, through the studies we do, how many times a customer will not even know that we carry a particular product line because sometimes the assortment in our stores is so great that they can't identify the particular item".
"Target can provide industry-leading service and value with Target Restock thanks to our assortment and using stores to deliver orders faster than our rivals.
"Even in this environment, we're continuing to make progress on the five pillars of our turnaround plan: repositioning the brand, revamping the product assortment, reinvigorating the stores, operational efficiency and financial flexibility".
"Your assortment in your store is not as good, you're paying more for labor, more for trucking.
It reviews the overall layout of the store, assortment organization, and shelf arrangement.
This enables shorter cost-efficient replenishment cycles for the major part of their store assortment.
