Laundry Add-Ons - The Sure Way to Grow Your Sales
The laundry add-ons category is worth more than £100m in the UK market. Whilst it’s dwarfed by laundry detergents (£900m) and fabric conditioners (£430m), it’s still important to get right. There are many shoppers who are loyal to specific products, and you can encourage customers to grow their baskets by shopping across the full range.
How Household Cleaning Can Give a Huge Boost to Your Sales
We all know that Household Cleaning products got a huge sales boost during the pandemic. Stock was flying off the shelves just as quickly as it could be replaced, and manufacturers were diverting all their expertise and resources to keep up with demand. We saw a swathe of product updates too, with antibacterial capabilities added to products that were previously lacking, to help the nation stop the spread of the infection.
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This Is Why Price Mark Packs Are Making a Major Impact
You don’t need a fancy statistic to know that shoppers are looking to save money in these times of financial uncertainty. Whilst we’re not technically in a recession, it certainly feels like it to many people across the nation, as household budgets are squeezed by rising utility, fuel, housing and grocery costs.
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Positivity at DCS - How Positive Feedback Can Make All the Difference in the Workplace
I think I was slightly sceptical when I first read an article by Shelle Rose Charvet, best-selling author of ‘Words That Change Minds,’ when she described the impact of only giving positive feedback to delegates on her certification training course. She had been constantly exploring ways to help delegates overcome ‘Incompetency Attacks’ – those negative states that hijack learners’ ability to take on new learning because ‘they can’t do it’ – and hadn’t found one single way to change the unhelpful patterns.
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How DCS Partnered with WHSmith to Create Huge Sales
WHSmith began trading with DCS in 2013 when we partnered with them to support the implementation of an extended Health and Beauty range in their Travel store portfolio.
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Shopper Spending in an Economic Downturn… It’s Not All Doom and Gloom.
The news at the moment is a depressing collection of attention-grabbing headlines about grocery inflation, rising energy prices, rising interest rates, global supply chain issues, economic downturn, public sector pay disputes and a cost of living that’s spiralling out of control. So here’s a question… is it all doom and gloom, or can we find some positives buried deep down at the bottom of the (now slightly more expensive) barrel?
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Eco Products. As a Retailer… Should You REALLY Care?
Yes, you should. Nice and simple.
OK, for those who won’t just take my word for it, coming up are 559 more words by way of justification.
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Rapid Delivery...Rapid Growth!
March 2020 saw the first lockdown with COVID-19, this was a scary experience and meant consumers were unable to complete their weekly routines. And so Rapid Delivery was born! A service which allows a consumer to receive their shopping within minutes without leaving their house. Getir is one of the biggest players within this sector consisting of over 220 dark stores and 2 RDCs covering London, Manchester, Birmingham and many more cities.
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How DCS Launched a Brand New Haircare Range
DCS are super proud to share the success story of our new Enliven Fruits Haircare range! This is the first time we have designed and developed a unique fruity range of hair products targeting specific hair types. A set of 3 mouth-watering variants in a complete regime that meets your specific hair needs, trialled, and tested on 150 consumers!
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