Retail Sales. Those two words conjure up images of slick used car salesmen or high pressure boiler room tactics just to lure you into buying whatever I’m selling. Cue scene of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross giving his “motivational speech” about A-B-C. Retail IT solutions seem to be hyper-focused on the act of selling—upsell, cross-sell, bundling, dynamic promotions, customer lifetime value, market segmentation, units per transaction, conversion rate, etc.