He paid the same college students to do in-store promotions at nearby Whole Foods stores.
There are now closer ties between what appears on the screen and other in-store promotions.
Alongside early openings have been strong store promotions at retailers like Abercrombie, American Eagle and Gap.
Another is to move spending from general advertising to in-store promotions.
The brands can play a role not only on screen, but also off screen, with supplemental marketing efforts in the form of print and TV advertisements as well as online and in-store promotions.
In-store promotions are catching on.
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The Middlebury (Vt.) College Book Store hosts promotions for Facebook fans--it has 279--who can win free textbooks and get discounts on their birthdays.
High infrastructure costs that make it expensive to merge store and online programs have too many stores running their in-store and Web promotions separately, experts say.
Promotions, store proximity, and product availability are all significant factors driving mobile users of location-based services into stores.
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The store has a "promotions wall" to recognize these employees because Best Buy believes leadership development stems from acknowledging employee achievements.
Neil Saunders, managing director of retail analysts Conlumino, said promotions and store refurbishments had helped Debenhams to "buck the market this summer and gain market share across a number of clothing categories".
Although global demand is growing, our research shows that at the retail level this is a very local business, in which the store network, branding and promotions must be tailored to local preferences.
Analysts had upbeat same-store sales expectations, largely due to reports from many retailers that store traffic was good and holiday promotions were successful.
The goal was to lower prices across the store, stop spending money on hundreds of promotions every year and simply give shoppers good quality product at a fair price.
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One case in point is the Florida division of Publix, a 760-store supermarket chain, which canceled all French wine promotions in April, despite Lebret's personal appeal. (Such stores sell a lot of the lower-end Mouton Cadet line.) Lebret figures that there were at most half a dozen complaints beforehand.
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Thus we get the ins and outs of what particular promotions might do to that critical number, the year-over-year of same-store sales, or whether a new menu item such as hot breakfasts might induce patrons to spend even more.
Heavy promotions in the first weekend of the holiday season helped retailers like Costco to beat expectations for their comparative store sales in November.
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