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merchandising
" Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."
Christopher Lasch

Meaning of "merchandising" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF MERCHANDISING

ˈmɜːtʃənˌdaɪzɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MERCHANDISING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Merchandising is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MERCHANDISING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Merchandising

In the broadest sense, merchandising is any practice which contributes to the sale of products to a retail consumer. At a retail in-store level, merchandising refers to the variety of products available for sale and the display of those products in such a way that it stimulates interest and entices customers to make a purchase. In retail commerce, visual display merchandising means merchandise sales using product design, selection, packaging, pricing, and display that stimulates consumers to spend more. This includes disciplines and discounting, physical presentation of products and displays, and the decisions about which products should be presented to which customers at what time.

Definition of merchandising in the English dictionary

The definition of merchandising in the dictionary is the selection and display of goods in a retail outlet. Other definition of merchandising is commercial goods, esp ones issued to exploit the popularity of a pop group, sporting event, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MERCHANDISING

advertising · appetizing · civilizing · compromising · downsizing · energizing · merchandizing · mesmerizing · nonoxidising · nonoxidizing · organizing · rising · self-aggrandising · self-aggrandizing · sizing · socializing · surprising · tantalizing · uncompromising · uprising

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MERCHANDISING

merchandise · merchandiser · merchandize · merchandizer · merchandizing · merchant · merchant bank · merchant banker · merchant fleet · merchant marine · merchant navy · merchant prince · merchant seaman · merchant seamen · merchant ship · merchant shipping · merchant vessel · merchant-like · merchantability · merchantable

WORDS THAT END LIKE MERCHANDISING

agonising · appetising · appraising · below-the-line advertising · bruising · consciousness raising · consciousness-raising · contextual advertising · display advertising · Easter Rising · fundraising · hair-raising · housing · practising · promising · raising · self-raising · subliminal advertising · unappetising · unpromising · unsurprising

Synonyms and antonyms of merchandising in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MERCHANDISING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «merchandising» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «merchandising» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF MERCHANDISING

Find out the translation of merchandising to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of merchandising from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «merchandising» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

商品
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

merchandising
570 millions of speakers
en

English

merchandising
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

मर्केंडाइजिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الترويج
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

мерчандайзинг
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

de merchandising
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

পণ্যদ্রব্য বিক্রয়
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

merchandising
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Merchandising
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Handel
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

マーチャンダイジング
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

머천다이징
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Merchandising
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bán hàng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

கிளைவிற்பனை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मर्चेंडाइजिंग
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

merchandising
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

merchandising
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

merchandising
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

мерчандайзинг
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

merchandising
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

merchandising
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

merchandising
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

merchandising
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

merchandising
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of merchandising

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MERCHANDISING»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of merchandising
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «merchandising».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about merchandising

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10 QUOTES WITH «MERCHANDISING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word merchandising.
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Majel Barrett
I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.
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Dakota Fanning
I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
3
Morris Hite
Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.
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Graham Joyce
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
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Christopher Lasch
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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Grant Morrison
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.
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Helen Reddy
I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.
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Lynda Resnick
If you have a business website, make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage... then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the Internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising.
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Lee Scott
We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.
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Dave Sim
As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MERCHANDISING»

Discover the use of merchandising in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to merchandising and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Merchandising: Theory, Principles, and Practice 3rd Edition
Merchandising: Theory, Principles, and Practice, 3rd Edition, focuses on the process of merchandising and the principles applied to the planning, development, and presentation of product lines in both the manufacturing and retailing sectors ...
Grace I. Kunz, 2009
2
Mastering Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management
The first academic textbook covering European retail fashion buying and merchandising. It provides a unique insight into best practice across the fashion industry.
Tim Jackson, David Shaw, 2000
3
Visual Merchandising and Display
This new edition of the best-selling text also includes sections on sustainability, offering tips for "green" presentation. This book serves as a "how to" for creating a visual look and feel for a brand and optimizing images.
Martin M. Pegler, 2011
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Store Design and Visual Merchandising: Creating Store Space ...
In this book, the interested reader will find a variety of hands-on suggestions on how to optimize the design of retail stores and service environments to increase customer satisfaction and sales.
Claus Ebster, 2011
5
Retail Product Management: Buying and Merchandising
This text represents a specialist text resource for students of retail management or marketing courses and modules, providing the reader with the opportunity to acquire a deeper knowledge of a key area of retailing management.
Rosemary Varley, 2006
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Visual merchandising 4
This book gives a colourful overview of the year's top visual merchandising and retail display projects, as chosen by the International Store Interior Design Competition sponsored by "Visual Merchandising and Store Design (VM+SD) Magazine.
VM+Sd Magazine, 2005
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Window Display: New Visual Merchandising
A showcase for the world's most eye-catching window displays, this book offers inspiration and guidance to visual merchandisers and retailers, helping them to create windows that not only look good but also help to increase sales.
Tony Morgan, 2010
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Retail Desire: Design, Display And Visual Merchandising
Explains the visual merchandisers creative process and how they use design to attract customers.
Johnny Tucker, 2005
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Merchandising Made Simple: Using Standards and Dynamite ...
Demonstrates how to use retail techniques to promote a library collection, draw in patrons, encourage browsing, and boost circulation, and includes information on branding through signage, arrangement, and displays.
Jenny LaPerriere, Trish Christiansen, 2008
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Practical Merchandising Math
Practical Merchandising Math helps you to teach yourself all the math you need to succeed in the retail industry.
Leo Gafney, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MERCHANDISING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term merchandising is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Next Chapter in Social Merchandising - Business 2 Community
This trend has led to the invention of social merchandising, a “relatively new marketing tool that plugs into the potential of social media ... «Business 2 Community, Jul 15»
2
It is time to take Brand Merchandising seriously
Indian companies and for most part Indian offices of global corporate treat merchandising as an expense item and not a possibility. The result ... «ET Retail, Jul 15»
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Razorfish's Jason Goldberg Headlines Shop.org 2015 Online …
The three-day workshop will bring together merchandising experts from more than 120 top brands, including Amazon.com Inc., Calvin Klein, ... «Satellite PR News, Jul 15»
4
Get in the Zone
Zone merchandising—setting measurable business goals for different areas of the restaurant while considering customers' needs and behaviors in each—can ... «QSR magazine, Jul 15»
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Inside look at Disneyland Merchandising
Summer Bloomfield, one of the masterminds behind Disney merchandising talked with Good 4 Utah's Brian Carlson about what guests can ... «Good4Utah, Jul 15»
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E-commerce to change the face of merchandising & marketing: Tata
Tata Sons chairman emeritus Ratan Tata said on Wednesday the growth of e-commerce and e-tailing is likely to change the face of ... «Financial Express, Jul 15»
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US Foods has new CEO, chief merchandising officer
US Foods has promoted Pietro Satriano to president and CEO and Steve Guberman to chief merchandising officer. Satriano was previously ... «The Packer, Jul 15»
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WSOP 2015 Merchandising: From T-Shirts to Tax Prep, Poker …
WSOP 2015 is close to over, and not only will many players go home with more moolah than they came with, so will many of the event's ... «CardsChat.com, Jul 15»
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A Super Wings merchandising program to land in North America
Under a new deal with Seoul, South Korea-based CJ E&M, Corus Entertainment-owned Nelvana Enterprises will represent the North American ... «Kidscreen, Jul 15»
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Review: 'Minions' a crass merchandising cash-in, but still kooky fun
Minions Bob, Kevin and Stuart (all voiced by Pierre Coffin) embark on an adventure in "Minions." (Courtesy photo | Universal). John Serba ... «MLive.com, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Merchandising [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/merchandising>. May 2024 ».
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