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How to Deliver a Flawless In-Store Customer Experience

Independent Retailer

With the new era of retail increasing shopper expectations, delivering a flawless in-store customer experience has never been more critical. Adopting item-level radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology ensures customer service is elevated to new levels in order to remain relevant within a crowded field of competitors.

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Myer’s latest trading update is a testament to putting the customer first

Inside Retail

Our focus remains on seeking to drive further and sustainable cost efficiencies and inventory management,” he added. Over the last five years as CEO, King has been enacting his ‘customer-first plan’ which has re-established Myer as Australia’s 8th most trusted brand, according to Roy Morgan.

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CIO Q&A: Lessons and Priorities from Aldo Group’s Companywide Digital Transformation

Retail TouchPoints

This shift toward unified commerce requires us to blur the lines between physical and digital retail and create a consistent and integrated customer experience across channels. Personalization: With the amount of choice available today, consumers expect personalized experiences tailored to their preferences and behaviors.

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Vitamin Shoppe CEO Sharon Leite Went Undercover in Her Stores. Here’s What She Learned.

Retail TouchPoints

It’s been a while since she’s been on the front lines though — not since the late ‘80s to be exact, when she was a manager at Express. To the employees she worked with while undercover she was Marie, a former gift shop manager from Ohio whose quest for a new start was being recorded for a documentary.

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Laying the Operational Foundation for Autonomous Stores

Retail TouchPoints

In its report, Transforming Operations Management For A Digital World , McKinsey discusses a bank’s investment in digitization and the operational changes required to succeed. It explained that “building the portal wasn’t enough, nor was training branch associates to show customers how to use it.

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Does Procurement Play a Role in Retail Recovery?

Retail TouchPoints

For most stores with multiple locations, procurement has largely been a centralized process, with each location requesting and receiving inventory from the parent corporation, as needed. But supply chain disruptions resulting from the pandemic forced many store managers to go rogue and do whatever was needed to stay in business.

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How retail is changing – the rise of local sourcing

I Vend

For retailers who understand the pattern of how retail is changing, and have a retail strategy to address it, supplying locally made, grown or produced goods can be a powerful way to deliver a positive customer experience, increase loyalty and generate additional sales and revenue.