Category: VM Selling Toolkit
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The 6 Best Retail Strategies: No.6 Retail People Strategies
in customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, impulse retailing, in-store services, luxury, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, personalisation, renting, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, store operations, store operations audits, store operations compliance, store theatre, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, vm compliance, vm operations, VM Selling ToolkitPeople: The shopkeepers of today Select any retail business, and you are most likely to discover a culture of colleague collaboration, trust and respect. However, retail has a chequered history of human resource management and interpersonal approaches, to say the least. Even in the best run businesses today there is still plenty of scope for…
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When will head office let me get on with my job?
Store Managers headache no.03 When will head office let me get on with my job? Instant messaging, store operations and the blessing and curse of constant communication For many retailers with multiple outlets, and any retailer with a wide store geography, international portfolio and a combination of direct and franchise operations, direct communication tools…
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10 ways to make more money from stores: No.1 ‘Rules & Conquer!’
It was Les Wexner founder of the Limited group, a man responsible for the success of some of the most iconic of fashion retailers from Victoria’s Secret to Express, from Abercrombie & Fitch to Bath & Body Works and quite possibly the first retail guru, who said that “retail is detail” He was right and…
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“What on earth is happening in my stores?!”
“How can I actually know for certain what is happening in my stores and what my customers are doing, and so ultimately know what to do to improve their experience and my commerciality?” It is still a widespread scenario that head office retail functions do not know what is happening hour after hour, day…
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“The Wonder of Workshops!”
For maximum benefit ensure the retail workshops you receive are… 1. Personalised through pre-visits and discussions 2. Relevant through individual research by experts 3. Interactive between presenter and audience and within the audience itself 4. Concluded with feedback, recommendations and priority action plans Many of us will remember the “wonder of workshops” in…
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