Retail Merchandise

Smart companies focus on controllable forces 
by Ron Pelger Published in The Produce News – August 20, 2009 

Scenario No. 1:
 Customers were moving along quickly in a local supermarket, eager to get home. Hostile weather was beginning to threaten the area with a massive thunderstorm and high winds predicted. Meanwhile, the produce department was

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Shrink affects every level of the produce industry
 by Ron Pelger The Produce News – April 22, 2009 
What is your produce shrink rate? What is your dollar loss from shrink? It’s shocking that whenever I ask those questions, many people do not know the answers. Even some upper-management executives have little or no knowledge

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Are you a decision-maker or a procrastinator? 
By Ron Pelger – The Produce News – 03/27/2007 Suppose your boss comes to you one day and says, “We have a sudden urgency that requires some quick decisions. Corporate headquarters has instructed us to downsize our workforce by 10 percent. You have to cut four people from

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