Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

Convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard has announced that is hiring for more than 25,000 positions at its more than 14,100 Circle K and Couche-Tard stores and support centers across North America, Europe and Asia. Canada and Europe over the next three years. Canada and Europe over the next three years.

Employee Engagement 262

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Hyken

AUGUST 14, 2023

Plus, Shep and Barry discuss how engaging one employee at a time can be more effective than mass engagement. The marketing and promotion should be congruent with the actual experience the customer receives.” ” About: Barry LaBov is the founder of LABOV Marketing and Training in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 14, 2023

Price and value are at the forefront of everyone’s minds. Too often CX is viewed in a vacuum, created by the marketing and customer teams to reflect the unique ways your brand delivers. Translation to those at the coalface can be lacking. How do you currently communicate your CX to your employees?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2023

The economic fallout from the pandemic has had a profound impact on the labor market and society. Additionally, technology can aid in ensuring employees are compensated fairly based on their skills and experience, reducing pay disparities based on gender, race or other factors. According to the U.S. in February 2020.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 9, 2022

Boost Employee Engagement. Your employees are likely the ones who interact directly with customers most often. So if they’re engaged at work, your customers will be more likely to have a positive experience. This Aircall post by Emily Gregor features seven tips for boosting employee engagement.

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Employee Engagement Marketing Customer Experience Location 140

Wiser

JULY 11, 2022

This can be done in many ways, including both paid and organically generated marketing advertisements. Your business can lose favor with shoppers because of things like product quality, negatively perceived brand image, or impersonal/cold marketing. Employee Turnover. 1: Identify Your Target Market.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, there are other, more impactful steps brands can take to grow their market share across the healthy eating and wellness sector. The Opportunity for Healthy Private-Label Ranges While we have seen the offerings of private-label brands evolve, most need to catch up from a branding and marketing perspective.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And as brands rethink the role of the in-store experience accordingly, they must also recognise the role of ‘back-stage’ teams and employees as a differentiator. A retail business is far more than a store front, a website, and a social media post or marketing email – although often these elements are all the end customer perceives.

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Payment Services Employee Engagement Beauty and Health Customer Experience 130

Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2023

The first, DDI, told us that 57 per cent of people have left a job at some point in their career because of a manager. The second, Gallup, told that 50 per cent of Americans have left a job to “get away from their manager at some point in their career.” ” When I look at those stats, I’m not surprised.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Over three -plus years, I have had the honor of speaking with industry pros who have rich backgrounds in tech, marketing and advertising, operations, finance and so much more. With every conversation, my goal is simple: to have candid and at times challenging conversations around some of the industry’s hottest topics and trends.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2020

In essential positions, where employees work at grocery stores, pharmacies or health care facilities, these individuals put themselves at risk daily simply through continued public contact rather than staying safe at home. Many would rather not be at work regardless of their paycheck. .

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Employee Engagement Customer Experience Returns ATS 149

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 27, 2022

They are product experts, conversing with countless consumers a day where their recommendations and guidance carry meaningful weight with customers — at the point of purchase. Challenges of Digital Marketing. For every $92 spent on marketing, only $1 is converted to a sale.

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Advertising Employee Engagement Consumer Marketing 256

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Results from Retail TouchPoints’ 2023 Store Operations Survey indicate that hiring and retaining associates, at 70% , and high employee turnover rates, at 67% , are their top challenges. They also know how to effectively serve shoppers because they understand the unique wants and needs of the market.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Today’s retail environment is challenging — whether it is price pressure from discounters, market disruption from online players, increased price transparency for shoppers or changing macroeconomics. When executed well, these experiences enable businesses to differentiate themselves and gain a sustainable market advantage.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

Consumers visiting brick-and-mortar stores, particularly those in the market for big-ticket items, want store associates both to help them understand exactly what they’re paying for and connect them with the model that fits their needs and budget. for associates at several large consumer electronics retailers.

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Employee Engagement Point of Sale Consumer Management 258

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2022

In fact, over the last 18 months, retailers have experienced a 17-point decline in customer satisfaction (CSAT) related to product availability and a 14-point drop in CSAT related to employee assistance, according to a Medallia Insights study of more than 85 global retailers. Employee Experience + Customer Experience = Brand Experience.

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2022

In markets as far apart as Australia, the US and Malaysia, there are more retail job openings than people willing to fill them, leading to stiff competition in the recruitment of staff. Currently, it is a candidate’s market. In a tight labour market, retaining staff is just as important as hiring new workers. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2023

Digitization has overhauled much of the business world, and in departments like finance or marketing you’d find most employees are hooked on apps that serve up-to-date information on the status of their programs and connect them with others on their team for real-time collaboration.

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Finance Employee Engagement Supermarket Management 239

Hyken

AUGUST 18, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Koichumanov Erkinbek, Product Marketing Manager at Intelogos , an employee well-being and AI performance management platform. He writes about how AI technologies support customer satisfaction and employee well-being. Erkin Bek Koichumanov is the Product Marketing Manager at Intelogos.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2023

Recruiting is marketing Recruitment is the fastest and most impactful way to change culture. Help shape recruitment with a marketing approach: Create an offer that describes the job plus business culture; If your business already has a ‘great culture’ how do you prove this? Avoid overstretching your team.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

Many of these experiences are already coming to life at big box retailers, which are offering services like checkout-free contactless payment options, AR immersive experiences and self-checkouts. He has an active role in the hiring and staff development process for front-line through Director-level employees.

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Payment Services Checkout Supply Chain Management Customer Experience 252

Retail Focus

JANUARY 10, 2022

This includes anything from at-a-glance top-line trends to drilling down into significant growth metrics. Rather than isolating data teams from the people who rely on their insights, a well-executed analytics platform uses design that puts people first to keep everyone updated at the same time.

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Employee Engagement Supermarket Location Management 244

Independent Retailer

MARCH 15, 2022

It might be the understatement of the century to say that market conditions have not been ideal or kind to many businesses over the past two years. Brick-and-mortar retail faced some of the harshest conditions in recent memory, and with so many bankruptcies and closures, some wonder whether there is a future at all for in-store shopping. .

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The ever-changing retail market has made automation a necessity. According to recent research, the global warehouse automation market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 14%, reaching $30 billion by 2026. However, this doesn’t mean introducing robotics into warehouse operations and completely cutting down the labor force.

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Management Fulfillment Drop-Shipping Employee Engagement 267

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The pandemic brought new workplace challenges to the fore, while employee concerns about mounting workloads, constant change and expectations about always being contactable outside work continue to rise. Research revealed that people worked longer hours at the start of the pandemic. Employee-choice market.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 8, 2023

The technology took you years to devise, add two years to bring it to market, and you’re looking at half a decade of hard-fought radical innovation. Fortunately, looking at the future of in-house innovation, you may only need a matter of days. Spending years working on an innovation before it hits the market is risky business.

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Employee Engagement Returns Marketing ATS 130

Theatro

APRIL 5, 2023

The retailer wanted to reimagine its customer service and its frontline employee engagement with a modern and accessible solution that would connect its entire team—leadership, groups and individual associates—in real-time. Our goal as company was to refine our productivity,” says Michael Wynn, President from Sunshine Ace Hardware.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 14, 2023

LaTanya Langley has been appointed to the newly created post of chief people and legal officer at Edgewell Personal Care Co., His empathetic leadership, strategic thinking, and overall positive attitude will be missed at Edgewell and we wish him all the best in his next chapter.” SHELTON, Conn. effective November 6.

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Employee Engagement Planning Management Marketing 52

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

After all the events that have reshaped our employment landscape, the conundrum of the employment market continues. Our ageing population is exiting the workforce at accelerated rates. Real wages are expected to pick up some, as the consumer price index (CPI) is projected to trend at 3.5 Purpose at work .

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Employee Engagement Management Consumer ATS 130

Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

Retail veteran David Briskin has enjoyed a long, successful career in Australian fashion, from founding accessories brand Mimco to being at the helm of Sass & Bide for several years and chairing the Melbourne Fashion Festival. Now, he’s a director at menswear label MJ Bale and a board member at not-for-profit Thread Together.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

Results from Retail TouchPoints’ annual Customer Loyalty and Personalization Benchmark Report reaffirm that retailers are focused on building a strong foundation of first-party data to support their supply chain, in-store services, omnichannel marketing and experiential strategies. . Collect and Leverage First-Party Data .

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

From implementing an advanced Point of Sale (POS) system that integrates seamlessly with your inventory management, to employing AI technology for personalised marketing, the digital tools at your disposal are diverse. Engagement goes beyond simply keeping employees happy.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Ceridian’s recent employee research highlights factors influencing the rise of the worker, revealing aspects of the employee experience that are worth looking at for retailers to win the war for talent. With the tight labour market, more employees have increased workloads and extended hours.

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Employee Engagement Consumer Shopping Marketing 130

Cisco Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

But, at the same time, it pushed the human mind to adapt, adopt, and define the new normal. It puts people at the center to connect and enable work styles, workspaces, and workflows. The goal is to create seamless employee engagement and deliver secure, compelling, inclusive work experiences.

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Employee Engagement Management ATS Marketing 145

Cisco Retail

JULY 26, 2022

While traditional financial services has some built-in regulatory barriers that makes it harder to be completely disrupted, companies are still at risk of losing market share and market cap. AnyConnect – secure access to networks for any user, on any device, at any time, in any location. The need for speed.

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Wiser

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In both these examples, it’s clear that when store associates transition from being just employees to being brand advocates, they can deliver remarkable results. They become a key component of the overall marketing strategy, influencing customer behavior and driving brand loyalty.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 17, 2022

Jon Basalone, President of Stores at Trader Joe’s in 2019 said : “ we’ve been around for over 50 years, and we’ve never had layoffs. With a little more than 10% of Trader Joe’s employees being with the company for 10 years or longer Trader Joe’s knows what it takes to attract an retain talent. Trader Joe’s pays its employees well.

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Employee Engagement Promotions Wholesale Supermarket 105