Sears' 858 highly trafficked retail stores are perfect for the kinds of live demonstrations that will inspire people to sign on the spot.
The introduction of its service to Walmart's heavily trafficked retailed stores will now give it a leg up in acquiring new customers, and may then see those customers return for other work in the future after becoming aware that Handy exists.
"That drove a lot of traffic into retail," he said.
Also, traffic to retail Web sites began to grow as stores put Black Friday ads and tools online.
If you don't have the right amount of traffic in retail, the venture won't work.
The key figures to watch as leading indicators of a possible recovery are airline traffic and retail sales.
Later, I drive around Tottenham Hale, the train station and small, traffic-clogged retail park where looters cleared a JD Sports of hundreds of pairs of trainers.
"The amount of eyeballs and traffic and retail dollars that are generated through their Web site" is impressive, said Alex Bhathal, co-president of Raj Manufacturing, which makes licensed swimwear brands like Ella Moss.
She works in New York for a division of eBay, where she oversees the marketing of Web sites and products aimed at driving sales and traffic for retail and consumer-brand clients.
ShopperTrak, a company that tracks shopping patterns, projected that the total foot traffic in retail stores during the coming season would fall 10percentt as shoppers focused on necessary purchases and targeted sales.
Much of this, certainly, is due to anxieties over the slowing economy and its effect on consumer spending; according to one recent study, foot traffic at retail stores fell in seven of the first eight months of the year.
