A Game of Margins
By Abe Sherman Other than circumnavigating closed roads, dodging fallen trees and downed wires and waiting in line for gas, for me this past week has been about waiting on a national election. Watching various news channels as the results came in (yes, our power finally came back on at 3 pm on Election Day!), I was most interested in [...]
Determining Inventory Levels for Retail Jewelers
By Abe Sherman Inventory management and control is an economic imperative Your need to deconstruct the components of your business in order to have a deeper understanding of its parts is an imperative. In the stages of deconstruction, you’ll begin to ascertain what elements are vital in the analysis of determining inventory levels…and determining inventory levels is your most significant [...]
Sub-Prime Times
It may be effecting the real estate market in your own area, or not. Housing may or may not be stacking up like the goods on the shelves at Costco, but it’s certainly been consuming the airwaves over the past weeks and it’s starting to show up in stores around the country.