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A focus on grocery

The 2013 edition of STORE
offered a brand new element—
the Grocery Symposium. The
special event within an event
brought together leaders from
the grocery industry to discuss
current trends, challenges and
opportunities within the grocery
sector, including health and wellness, obesity, local procurement,
a connected and well-informed
consumer and many more that
are shaping the sector’s narrative, businesses and strategies.

Wherever you look, change is happening all around us. The industry is in
flux and it seems that nothing within the retail environment is ever static.
Because of this, retailers across the country have got to be nimble, flexible and adaptive to change. Whether they’re adapting with expanded
offering and service, an enhanced digital presence, educational marketing pieces, or anything else, the ability to change with consumers, technological advancement or external trends and factors has never been more
critical to the potential success and growth of retailers than it is today.
Retailers who realize this may position themselves as tomorrow’s leaders.
For more information about RCC’s STORE Conference, including ways
to register for next year’s conference, visit www.storeconference.ca.

Highly
Engaged
Employees
& Remaining
Union-Free

MySTORE—thriving
independents

For the second consecutive
year, the STORE Conference offered delegates the opportunity
to attend independent-specific
sessions that focussed on marketing on a budget, creating a
new competitive edge, building an e-commerce platform for
your small business and more.
Independent delegates were also
given the opportunity to network with each other and discuss
the topics and concerns that are
unique to their businesses.

They have a lot in common.
Both depend on great leadership
at all levels of management. The
ability to balance the needs of the
business with those of employees.
At Sherrard Kuzz LLP we help our
retail clients strike that balance.

e-commerce made easy

We partner with them to identify,
train and develop highly engaged
managers and workplace leaders.

Harley Finkelstein, chief platform officer at Shopify, asked
attendees to forget about international players that are setting
up shop in Canada to leverage the
country's stable market and confident consumer. Instead, he suggested that the smart, agile and
innovative independent retailers
in the country are those that are
advancing by leaps and bounds to
emerge as quiet game-changers.
A panel of e-commerce and industry experts discussed the ways
even the smallest of independent
retailers can level the playing field
by optimizing their websites to
sell product online.

A union-free workplace is one
of the many collateral benefits.
It’s how we help our retail
clients succeed.

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