Discounters are now taking a more focused approach to improving the merchandising of each individual store location

摘要

Discount retailers are clearly becoming more and more sophis-ticated in the way that they manage their inventories. Following on the major leaps forward already made in speeding up merchandise flow, they are now taking a more focused approach to improving the merchandising of each individual store location. One indication of this is the fact that, according to the executives from the discount store industry participating in this year's survey of inventory-management trends, 88% are maintaining their inventory information at the unit, sku and location level of detail. This allows them flexibility in micromerchandising assortments for particular store locations and helps eliminate out-of-stocks in key items.