Math: The Universal Language

For those of you who maybe didn't know - math is everything.While you might be moaning and groaning (trust me you're not alone), it's simply something that we have to endure if we ever want to land a job in any field of the industry. Retail math is something that is used throughout the workforce from buyers to retail management. A series of equations and ratios, retail math is used to determine how fast inventory is selling, if the product you're selling produced a profit, and which products (or departments) have the greatest impact on sales.

Industry Job: Fashion Buyer

Do you ever wonder how merchandise ends up in a store? How it has the stock that it has? And why those choices? As easy as it sounds to simply stock the shelves of any store (after all there are so many choices of products these days) it's quite more complex than it sounds. Let me just point out that if you should go into a Macy's the items on the shelf are much different than if you were to go into a Nordstroms, or for that matter, a Neiman Marcus.

The people in charge of this awesomely intricate facet of the fashion industry are Fashion Buyers, and there is more to their job than just stocking a store. Let's take a dive into their world.

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