How can improved UPC standards help retail wine stores?
The quest for a unique wine item number for use throughout the industry has been a recurring theme in this column. So much so that I was...
How Market Conditions Affect Wine Sales Online
Helping customers and sourcing product is the daily work of running a store and you tend to take for granted the conditions of your local...
Retailing Means Retooling: Smart Wine Merchants are Not Standing Pat
If Charles Dickens were in the wine business today, perhaps he would agree that these are the best of times and the worst of times. The...
Google Shifts Retailers' Attention to 12 digits
In the early 1980's Walmart famously introduced barcode scanners in their stores to speed up the checkout process. Back then only 45% of...
The Local and Mobile Future of eCommerce
As consumers have embraced the Internet and incorporated it into their lives a funny thing has happened: shopping at local stores is more...