In business accounting, merchandising inventory refers to merchandise procured by a merchant for resell. Merchandising companies sell products such as clothing, auto parts and other tangible products.

Merchandising is the strategy businesses use to sell products. It’s a broad category that covers everything from inventory decisions, to how products are displayed in-store, to how they are marketed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. In the new experience economy, the very idea of what a ...

Vertical merchandising is a technique retailers use to group inventory in ways that get customers to buy more items. While the concept implies displaying items from top to bottom, or vice versa, ...

Retailers source, develop and acquire products and services with the purpose of selling. This is the heart of retail, and ‘retailcraft’ (to use our Researcher, Martin’s phrase). Product defines retail ...

To become a merchandiser an analytical degree is ideal, or a fashion buying and merchandising diploma. Internships are also key to get in to a business as a merchandise admin assistant or allocator, ...

Brick-and-mortar merchandisers’ shift from a product-centric to a customer-centric mentality is examined in a recent report from Gartner. By starting backwards from the known profiles of shoppers in ...