Why should you study retail management?
Learn more about the skills you鈥檒l build & experiential learning opportunities.
BCom Retail Management Concentration & Major
Studying retail management through a concentration or major allows you to balance creative marketing skillsets with analytics, technology, and operations management, while bridging the gap from theory to real-world application.
A retail education at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management teaches you how to engage with the consumer throughout the entire customer journey. Students gain a core understanding of end-consumer focused retail, with an agile, global lens, enabling learning relevant to a variety of sectors. By pursing a retail management focus, students build a multidisciplinary critical thinking skillset, creating an executive presence for future workplaces.
Why specialize in retail management?
鈥淚鈥檝e been told by multiple employers during interviews about how unique and advantageous my concentration in retail management is. The retail management professors all have incredible knowledge to share about their professional experience in their respective fields and I鈥檝e found all of them to be very supportive when it comes to networking and job hunting - in fact Marie-Jos茅e Lamothe connected me with my first employer.鈥�
Taylor O鈥橫alley, Current BCom Student
Retail Management Concentration & Marketing Major
鈥淢y experience with the Bensadoun School of Retail Management (BSRM) has exceeded all my expectations and positively impacted my personal and professional growth. In pursuing a Retail Management Concentration, I have been granted the opportunity to learn from industry experts and talented guest lecturers such as executives from Amazon and Google. I will forever remember the experience I had with BSRM as the most defining moment of my academic experience at 平特五不中.鈥�
Olivia Fata, BCom 鈥�21, Retail Management Concentration & Accounting Major
Senior Auditor, Deloitte
Topics you鈥檒l learn
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Branding & marketing
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Data analytics
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Innovation, technology & digitalization
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Supply chain & operations
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Sustainability
Unique retail-focused learning opportunities to make you industry ready
- Experiential (immersive) learning:
- In-class: academic & industry projects, guest speakers, case cracking
- Research opportunities: Retail Innovation Lab & DataSphere Lab
- Case competitions: , & Retail Creative Collab
- Networking & extra-curricular: & Retail Student Club
- Discussion-based courses
- Creative assignments
- Accessible, engaging professors
Examples of exciting sectors & career opportunities
- Consulting: Accenture, KPMG, Deloitte
- CPG: Estee Lauder, Saputo Inc., L鈥橭real
- E-commerce: Shopify, Lightspeed, Amazon
- Fashion & Beauty: ALDO Group, Uniqlo Canada
- Food & Grocery: Metro, Loblaws, Couche-Tard
- Pharma: McKesson, Abbott
- Technology: SAP, Cognizant
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Why specialize in retail management?
Experiential learning opportunities through our retail management programs
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