Download or read book How to Open a Financially Successful Specialty Retail & Gourmet Foods Shop written by Sharon L. Fullen and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book & CD-ROM. This is the A-to-Z guide to making it in your own store. Learn the expert tips, tricks, and a vast gold mine of crucial how-to information you just can't find anywhere else. This is a perfect book for entrepreneurs, schools, colleges and technical training centres. This detailed text contains all the information you will ever need to needed to start, operate, and manage a highly profitable speciality store. This is an ideal guide new for comers to the business as well as experienced operators. In addition to basic operational practices the book will demonstrate how to: increase impulse sales and improve presentation, utilise merchandising fixtures and techniques, cross merchandising, point of purchase materials, how to develop a product sampling program.