<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18848223.post8370072993889896248..comments</id><updated>2011-12-20T09:39:56.304-06:00</updated><category term='retail marketing'/><category term='Retail Revolution'/><category term='Events and Promotions'/><category term='Press Release'/><category term='holiday marketing'/><category term='small business marketing'/><category term='Black Friday'/><title type='text'>Comments on Retail Adventures in the REAL World™: Are you in the sales prevention business?</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.retailadventuresblog.com/feeds/8370072993889896248/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18848223/8370072993889896248/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.retailadventuresblog.com/2011/12/are-you-in-sales-prevention-business.html'/><author><name>KIZER and BENDER</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16562202614202509558</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ti20w5yWMHc/R-KafK8DdRI/AAAAAAAAAjE/H-BT0Ucs-xM/S220/KIZER+%26+BENDER+--+New+Photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18848223.post-1620017121778045061</id><published>2011-12-19T19:40:45.858-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T19:40:45.858-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I have been in SOOOOO many craft stores like the o...</title><content type='html'>I have been in SOOOOO many craft stores like the one you describe. Stores where it becomes obvious that the staff or store owner don&amp;#39;t really want to sell the merchandise. It&amp;#39;s even obvious they only opened a store so they could buy &amp;quot;all this cool stuff&amp;quot; at wholesale for themselves. They don&amp;#39;t want to sell it to you, it&amp;#39;s theirs! I think many many craft store owners need to sit down and ask themselves why they are in business. Do they want to sell this product? If so, take to heart the basic selling tools provided for them. If not, close the doors now and save yourself a lot of money, heartache, and customer bad will.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18848223/8370072993889896248/comments/default/1620017121778045061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18848223/8370072993889896248/comments/default/1620017121778045061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.retailadventuresblog.com/2011/12/are-you-in-sales-prevention-business.html?showComment=1324345245858#c1620017121778045061' title=''/><author><name>Laura Weed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.retailadventuresblog.com/2011/12/are-you-in-sales-prevention-business.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18848223.post-8370072993889896248' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18848223/posts/default/8370072993889896248' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1358657365'/></entry></feed>
