David Brown

By The Numbers: You’ve Got Two Choices

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January 1, 2009

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AS A RETAILER, you basically have two choices when it comes to generating more revenue — sell more items or increase the ticket price of each item you sell. Below, note the difference in total sales for every 5,000 items sold between the average store in our survey group, a higher-end AGS type jeweler and Blue Nile.

By The Numbers: You’ve Got Two Choices

This story is from the January 2009 edition of INSTORE.

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It Was Time to Make a Decision. It Was Time to Call Wilkerson.

Except for a few years when he worked as an accountant, Jim Schwartz has always been a jeweler. He grew up in the business and after “counting beans” for a few years, he and his wife, Robin, opened Robin James Jewelers in Cincinnati, Ohio. “We were coming to a stage in our life where we knew we have to make a decision,” says Jim Schwartz. He and Robin wanted to do it right, so they called Wilkerson. The best surprise (besides surpassing sales goals)? “The workers and associations really care about helping us move out own inventory out of the store first. It was very important to us.”