TORONTO - Canadian Tire (TSX:CTC.A) is planning to open two experimental stores in Ontario that will offer an expanded variety of food and other consumable items as part of a new product assortment." Our research tells us that (selling food items) will probably increase customer traffic to the store and certainly if someone's in buying other items, if they need milk or bread, it's a great opportunity to purchase it there," Gibson said.
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Retailers turning to HeadCount’s customer traffic analysis for answers
Trading “gut instinct” for the science of traffic and customer conversion provides a more complete picture of what’s affecting the day-to-day sales in stores
May 30, 2007 (Toronto) – Big Box outlets, shrinking margins and dwindling returns keep many Canadian retail executives up at night. Yet everyday retailers are allowing critical sales data to walk out the door — their customers. Mark Ryski, CEO and Founder
of Edmonton-based HeadCount, will present his case that the retail industry needs to add traffic counting analysis to their sales strategies as a featured speaker at STORE 2007 –
Canada’s Retail Conference (www.storeconference.ca) held June 4-5 in Toronto. Electronic traffic counting technology has been around since the 1970s, but the penetration of the technology in retail outlets is estimated to be less than 20 per cent, says
Ryski, who authored a book, When Retail Customers Count, to put the science of customer traffic counting and conversion back into the retailers’ hands.
http://www.headcount.com/downloads/news_release_5-30-07.pdf.