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MARKET WATCH: A New Retail Model

An email from the Retail Owners’ Institute (www.retailowner.com) alerted me to a new strategy Kitchen Kaboodle has implemented. Obviously, they don’t do much with action sports brands, but faced with the same economic problems our industry’s specialty shops are dealing with, they decided to try something new.

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Jeff Harbaugh

March 30 2009 | 1,260 views

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No Accounting Degree Required: Quality Financial Planning Available for Boardsport Retailers

Rarely, but once in a while, I come across something I want to plug. This time it’s some inexpensive, easy-to-use, financial planning software that the Retail Owners’ Institute has developed. So instead of ranting and raving about some possible industry trend, or saying something depressing about how the skate industry might be evolving, I thought I’d say glowing things about this software in the hope that some of you might check it out.

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