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College Store Executive




 

Highlights of the July/August2011 Issue


Making Last-Minute
Purchasing Decisions

 

Summer continues to sizzle, which means that college bookstore directors/buyers are frantically making purchasing decisions to ensure that their stores are well stocked when students come back to school in a matter of weeks.

 

With advance planning now in the “last-minute” stage, managers are checking each area of their store, whether on the sales floor or in the stockroom. If there is space on the floor for more merchandise, and not enough inventory on hand to fill that space, directors/buyers are placing those final orders to make sure that all students who walk into the store during fall rush find exactly what they need.

 

As students get ready to return to their dorms/housing units, College Store Executive asked a few vendors to discuss some of the last-minute items to consider when making final preparations for fall rush. Read more...


Children's Apparel Offers Style, Color Variety

College bookstores offer a wide variety of apparel for students and alumni. T-shirts, shorts, sweatshirts and sweatpants are just a sampling of the clothing items that will be featured on the sales floor of college stores this fall.

 

While current students and alumni will keep the registers ringing during fall rush with their apparel (and other semester-essential) purchases, college stores also feature apparel targeted for future students and alumni — in other words, children.

 

The latest styles and colors, combined with the logos of the school, make children's apparel an attractive option for purchase in a college store, just like their adult counterparts. Read more...


Briar Cliff University Bookstore —
With Changes Coming, The Long Tradition Continues

Having served students for more than eight decades, the Briar Cliff University Bookstore is more than ready for the major changes that are taking place at the Sioux City, Iowa school this fall.

 

The store will face one of its biggest challenges this fall as the university shifts to a new schedule. Having operated as a term school since opening in 1930 — running on a trimester system — the university will become a semester school in the fall term, with fall and spring semesters. Read more...