Tag Archives: store

Music Improves Customer Experience, Even in Serious Settings

Store retailers will try anything (almost) to enhance the customer experience. This includes Engineering a Great Retail Customer Experience and Worlds of Online and Offline Businesses Continue to Merge.  Today’s post is on how music improves customer experience.   Music Improves Customer Experience An … Continue reading

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The Future Roles of the Physical Store

As we are well aware, many traditional brick-and-mortar stores are evolving in response to the impact of online shopping — which more and more people are using both to acquire information and to make purchases without visiting a store. Big … Continue reading

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Rating a Store from the Shopper’s Viewpoint

As Patricia M. Johnson, CMC and Richard F. Outcalt write for the Retail Owners Institute: “We’ve all shopped stores that have made such a bad first impression we’ve vowed they won’t have the opportunity to make a second. But even if you … Continue reading

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