Category Archives: Part 7: Communicating with the Customer

This sub-category encompasses establishing and maintaining a retail image, and promotional strategy.

These Survey Results Are Not Good for Retailers

Retailers employ store-based salespeople to enhance the customer experience, answer questions and be knowledgeable about the goods and services offered, and to facilitate the purchase process. They want shoppers to believe that salespeople are fulfilling these functions. Thus, the results … Continue reading

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How to Better Blend Online and In-Store Strategies

In this post, there are several tips as to how to better integrate omnichannel retailing. As Steve Hashman (who manages business development at CUBE, and product development and marketing initiatives for high-tech and telecoms companies, both in Canada, and in locations across … Continue reading

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Why Aren’t More Shoppers in Your Loyalty Program?

Retailers (of all sizes and types) are continually on a quest to attract more people to their customer loyalty programs. This continues to be both a critical goal and a major challenge for them. [See 1, 2, 3, 4.] Today, … Continue reading

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