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Welcome to the Resilient Retail Game Plan - giving you retail insights, retail trends updates and best practices for any retailer, from Shopify stores to bricks and mortar units. I'm Catherine Erdly, veteran retail expert and consultant and also founder of The Resilient Retail Club. This is the podcast for anyone wanting to start, grow, or scale a profitable small medium or large product retail business. Aimed at independent retailers, e-commerce brands, indie sellers, online shops, independent boutiques, shopkeepers, brands and makers. I'm dedicated to breaking down the concepts and tools I’ve gathered from twenty years in the retail industry in the UK and USA and showing you how you can use them in your small business.

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The Resilient Retail Game Plan - retail insights, retail trends and best practices

Episodes

Retail Christmas Stock Planning: How Much Should You Actually Buy?

Retail Christmas Promotions: 7 Ways to Drive Sales Without Discounting Everything

Retail Christmas Range: Stop Trying to Stock Everything

Retail Christmas Cash Flow: Four Ways to Ease the Squeeze

Retail Christmas Strategy: Why August Decides December

Retail Profit: Sales Down 23%, Profit Up 22%

Retail Sales Are Vanity. Retail Profit Is Sanity

Ghost stores, fake shops and what they mean for real independent retailers

The Retail Stock Mistake Even Veteran Retailers Make

The 4-Step Sales Strategy Every Independent Retailer Needs

Drowning in Data? The Only 3 Retail Numbers That Matter

Independent Retailer Trends 2026: Plan Christmas Now

Retail Planning 2026: Why a Mid-Year Check-In Beats Starting Over in January

How AI Agents Are Changing Retail Stores (Retail Industry Trends 2026)

How retailers can build demand on TikTok

Retail Trends 2026: How Independent Retailers Should Use Generative AI

Retail Outlook 2026: Why 71% of Independent Retailers Are Growing - And How to Join Them

Retail Time Management: Stop Juggling Everything and Finally Get Ahead!

Retail Stock Ordering: Two questions every product business must answer

Retail insights around the "Invisible Ceiling": Why Your Shop Has Stalled

Retail Stock, Profit and Mindset: Three Pillars of a Resilient Retail Business

Retail Bottleneck: How to stop being the go-to for every question in your business

Retail Growth Through Data: Email & SMS Marketing Secrets with Intuit Mailchimp

The Shop Window Pyramid: Visual Merchandising Secrets for Independent Retailers

Retail, The Lipstick Effect, and Why You Should Keep Selling

The Power of Community: Why Every Retailer Needs Their People!

Retail Industry Trends - 2026. Retail is changing FAST!

How to Build a Retail Community That Actually Buys From You

How to stop feeling stuck in your own head in your retail business

Retail Sales Tracking: Are You Guessing Your Numbers, or Deciding?

How to Turn One-Time Buyers into Repeat Customers for Your Retail Business

Retail Marketing Without A Plan = Noise! Here's How Retailers Get Consistent Sales

How indie shops grow sales WITHOUT discounting!

Knowing When Your Retail Business Is Ready To Expand

5 Common Issues Growing Retail Businesses Don't Expect

How to build a profitable online shop while ignoring 'best practices'

Why Retail Business Growth Starts to Feel Heavy at Six Figures!

Meta Ads Have Changed: What will actually work in 2026!

How Christmas 2025 Really Felt In Retail (and why that matters for 2026)

Your January Stock Clearance Strategy

Retail Profit vs Turnover: When £3 Million Nearly Broke the Business

Retail Trends 2026: Four Shifts Retail Businesses Need To Prepare For

Dead Stock to Cash Flow: Access Trapped Cash Tied Up in Inventory

Christmas Stock Management: How to shift slow sellers and avoid brown bananas

What Shopify and Klaviyo Agree On: Christmas 2025 Spending

Get more sales with less stock!

The Power of Planning Your Retail Sales Year: How Structure Creates Freedom (and Profit)

When Numbers Finally Tell the Truth - Retail Reality Check That Changed Everything for My Client

Overcome 'feast or famine' in your product retail business!

3 mistakes that keep small product retail businesses stuck!