We started Northern Trade Works with the idea that just like back in the early 1990’s, retail is on the verge of changing how it acts and how we will see it forever. 

 Back then, it was the true integration of computers and beginning to be able to build proper planograms and measure what happened when you made changes in Categories for better or worse. We saw great fall out from those days with massive price wars and the beginning of hard discounters coming into the marketplace. As more products were introduced and with consolidation of large players, we saw the rise of Category Management and Just In Time Management. 

Today it won’t be the basic technologies that win or lose, but how you are able to maintain the integrations necessary to stay one step ahead of your competitor.  Can you act fast enough to get to market the customer experience or the newest trend in items or merchandising? Now its about how to integrate with cameras to increase our employee engagement, integrate with next level programs and even robots or drones to create less out of stock positions and move faster on pricing or assortment to meet the ever changing trends and demands of today’s well educated consumer. 

There will be a lot of change for retail for both the Retailer and the Vendor and for that purpose, we have created a company to assist in the development and integration of the next generation of technologies.