Big Picture Monday: Retail Trends You Should Know About

Every week, JCK’s Big Picture Monday
rounds up the most interesting stories about trends in retailing:

– Fifty things retail employees should never do before the holidays.

– A new resource for retailers: Mint
data.

– Law changes rules
for gift cards.

– “Return fraud” costly
for retailers.

– People who sold their store, then
bought it back.

– Consumers have mixed feelings about pre-Christmas promos.

– Word of mouth still best
customer driver.

– Pop-up stores considered great
buzz-builder.

– Ways to publicize without
a publicist.

– Companies turn workers into “evangelists.”

– iPad increasingly used as sales tool.

JCK