That's the National Basketball Association these days, a once-glittering product that will try anything to get people's attention, including deafening noise in every arena, personalized dot-com services for all of humankind and the standard merchandising push that could clothe the population of China 20 times over.
While it will sell standard REI merchandise, it will also have Manhattan-only features, like a street-level "bike stop" where commuters can stop in to get a wonky bicycle fixed quickly.
To ensure both, MallforAfrica created a new association, the Africa Made Product Standards (AMPS), to verify made in Africa status and merchandise standards.
individually and making decisions regarding the elements based on what is "standard" for their customers, merchandise, and format.
During the Internet boom, e-commerce sites made it easy on customers by following a standard method for presenting merchandise — namely, Amazon's method — with distinct pathways to items, a brief description of the item and an easy checkout process.
But according to a presentation by Melanie Nuce, vice president of apparel and general merchandise for standards organization GS1 US1 at the Internet of Retail conference last fall, after Macy's expanded RFID to its fashion departments, the retailer's sales volume surged more than 200%, she said then.
The building's interior does not meet current seismic or merchandising standards, however, and will be gutted to make way for the five-level Bloomingdale's that will face Mission Street.
Its merchandising standards were world-class and in the initial period, there were rumors that it even burnt the unsold stock rather than sell the markdowns.
Gita, 26, a staff member in the sales department, met the Filipino worker when he was new in the post and was starting to introduce visual merchandising standards to the stores.
