Get ready to refine your Open-to-Buy (OTB) strategies for Fall 2025! 📦 Building on insights from our previous session, this webinar dives deeper into analyzing 2024 results to shape a winning plan for the upcoming season.

Stacy Shaw of Starboard Group featured in Retail TouchPoints, sharing how Starboard Group is bringing their mission to curate a vibrant world ashore with the upcoming launch of Starboard at Westgate Resorts in Las Vegas! Discover how they’re transforming vacation retail in the resort space!💫 💫

Following NRF '25 Retail's Big Show

I am happy to share more exciting news – over the last few weeks we were able to implement a full-blown Buyers Toolbox AP at Shoe Palace, one of the most dynamic multi-branded footwear and apparel retailers today.

It's not every day that I get stumped by a GOOD question from a customer, but it's extra fun for me: How do you measure/apply Stock Turn to stores that have not been open for a full year (this also applies to Comp Stores that have turned Comp mid-year)

I am happy to announce that we have implemented Buyers Toolbox AP for Merchandise Planning and Open To Buy at Runnings Farm and Fleet, to support ongoing growth in business volume and store counts.

The everyday variety of Merchandise Planning methods and techniques out there is really FUN to deal with! And here are just a few solutions; each required its’ own blend of user interviewing and needs discovery, retail industry knowledge, and creative problem-solving. It’s like solving a complex, interlocking puzzle every time. Live, while people are watching.

Too many merchants still plan their budgets and Open To Buy once a season, if not once a year. Surely, planning is a chore, an expense, and there are so many other, more important things to take care of... Besides, the buyers often don't follow the plan – so what's the point of trying hard?

As we approach the holiday season, retailers face the crucial task of managing end-of season excess inventory. Here are a few practical tips on making sure you don't end up with a mountain of clearance stock in January on a category-by-category or key vendor basis.