Retail Adventures

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Amazon stores, including Amazon Go, Whole Foods Market, and Amazon Fresh currently employ Amazon One , a “fast, convenient, contactless way to use your palm to pay at a store, present a loyalty card, enter a venue, or badge into work” to move shoppers quickly through checkout lines. And when it becomes too much some shoppers shut down.

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Retail Adventures

AUGUST 8, 2023

When we mystery shop we carefully examine the operational categories in the store, and then rate each one on a scale of 1 to 10. Send someone you trust to a public place near your store to ask people if they can recommend a good (whatever you sell) store. Mystery shop your store. How are the store windows?

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Retail Adventures

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

When we mystery shop we carefully examine the operational categories in the store, and then rate each one on a scale of 1 to 10. Send someone you trust to a public place near your store to ask people if they can recommend a good art supply store. Ask a friend to mystery shop your store. How are the store windows?

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Retail Next

APRIL 1, 2021

. . In my first blog post, “ The Relevance of Physical Retail in the Customer Channel ,” available on empatheticmachines.org , I spoke about the relevance of physical retail today as well as introduced the idea of the Customer Channel. Half shipped, half in store? Ship to store? Improved 3D product visualization.

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Retail Adventures

JANUARY 25, 2023

You can do much the same in your own store by engaging the shoppers five senses. Sight Your sales floor is a wonderland of all things visual. The reason 50 percent of a store’s floor is never seen by shoppers in many stores is because the layout is left to chance. o Make your displays visually interesting.

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Retail Adventures

AUGUST 3, 2020

Have you ever gone into a store to buy a single item and left with a cartload of things you hadn't intended to buy? You were moved to purchase by that retailer’s merchandising strategy. When a store is well merchandised add-on sales become a common occurrence. When played in a store, disco is the sound of money.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 1, 2022

Scot: [2:07] Cool and then so I’ve been turning our F of n this time of year that was called the merchandise or the merch conference is that what you want to. Scot: [9:10] Yes cool and then it’s too early to get the online number from the US Department of Commerce right that that’s got it.

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