September 13, 2022

Excelling in store operations: shop as a complement to online

It's crucial to keep track at all times of the different points of contact with the customer,

Excelling in store operations: shop as a complement to online

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Meeting customer expectations requires seamless integration between online and offline store operations, ensuring efficient replenishment, dynamic pricing, and exceptional service. A robust store operation is key to fulfilling customer needs and harmonizing the omnichannel experience. Retailers often face challenges like disjointed channels, poor store experiences, and lack of integration, leading to customer dissatisfaction. Addressing these issues involves understanding customer behavior, such as online product searches and stock availability checks, and leveraging technology to enable smooth communication and efficient operations. Analytics can help optimize the customer journey, ensuring an impressive and cohesive omnichannel experience.

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Fulfilling customer expectations requires an effective store operation, capable of replenishing items across offline and online channels, while frequently revising prices and delivering a high-quality service.

If having customer-centric marketing leads the customer to the store, a robust operation allows the fulfillment of the customer’s needs and expectations. The store operation is crucial, not only for the customer’s physical shopping experience but also as a decisive last step in harmonizing the omnichannel experience.

Some retailers still suffer from a poor store experience, overflowing the customer with a huge variety of products and with long shopping courses, with the goal of increasing the average time spent in the store. At the same time, the online and offline channels lack connection and integration, leading to disruptions in the customer journey that can cause a non-returning client.

It is fundamental to integrate the online and offline experiences, achieving an integrated customer journey. At this point, some questions should be answered:

  • Does the customer usually search for a product online before purchasing it in-store?
  • Does the customer interact on social networks to get feedback about the products he is willing to order?
  • Are stock levels per store available online, preventing unnecessary travel to the store that results in a stockout of the desired product?

Technology plays an important role in this omnichannel orchestration, allowing communication with the customer in a seamless way, and enabling an efficient store operation. As an example, store operators should be able to query stock levels at different stores, informing the client where is the stock available, or if there is any movement they can make that best suits their needs.

Operating retail sales both offline and online certainly presents some challenges, and there may be constraints when managing different sales channels and creating synergies between them. That can be addressed through different initiatives, where analytics plays an important part. Above all, it is crucial to keep track at all times of the different points of contact with the customer, setting the foundations for an impressive omnichannel experience.

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