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And this race to the bottom line price may have led many retailers to sacrifice the very features that differentiated themselves in the marketplace to begin with, such as product quality, merchandise selection, and customer service.
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About 90% of Best Buy shoppers in both time frames said they like the selection of merchandise they encountered.
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Selection of merchandise also identified as a reason for selecting a store during the holiday season (20% and 25.8% respectively).
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By offering new and modern brands, a large selection of merchandise, and superb customer service, Sephora has attracted a younger consumer than the department stores.
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Unlike their feminine counterparts, these new sites emphasize clean, minimal design, a small selection of merchandise and, crucially, a boatload of editorial content, from photo shoots to videos to columns aimed at schooling the rougher sex on the finer details of hand-stitched denim or how to wear plaid on plaid.
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Lower margins could be offset by packing the selection with private-label merchandise, a strategy Walmart employed successfully in Mexico with its Bodega concept.
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The company provides customers with a focused selection of high-quality, active-oriented, fashion and fashion basic merchandise at compelling values.
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Costco Wholesale Corp. operates membership warehouses based on the concept that offering members very low prices on a limited selection of nationally branded and selected private label products in a wide range of merchandise categories will produce high sales volumes and rapid inventory turnover.
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