How to Better Understand the In-store Customer Journey
Gut instinct about what your shopper really wants during her in-store customer journey should no longer be driving your business decisions – instead, data science should be the key driver of retail success in the coming decades. Yes, all the technology is here, and based on the deep-level accuracy that retail intelligence tools can provide, retailers are on...
Big Lots Successfully Integrates Multiple Data Sets
Successful data stream integration yields win for Big Lots in Retail TouchPoints Store Operations Superstar Award In today’s world, retail operations departments are more expansive and all-encompassing than ever before. As retail operations departments evolve, employees are, year after year, faced with new-found challenges, ranging from: implementing new technological solutions that long-standing issues, managing matters pertaining to scale, and leveraging data to...
Top 9 Reasons to Attend ShopperTrak’s Retail Summit 2017
Join us on June 7 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago for ShopperTrak’s Retail Summit 2017, which provides retail leaders with 3 days during which to explore cutting-edge ideas, speak freely, question long-held assumptions, and work together to envision a future of retail that adapts to the preferences of contemporary shoppers. To learn more,...
Six Ways to Drive Store Associate Effectiveness
Associate Effectiveness is Key to Recurring In-Store Sales According to David Bruce in his book, “The Funniest People in Sports,” the comedian, stage, film and television star Groucho Marx once captained a charity baseball game between the comedians and the actors. He ordered Jack Benny to step up to the plate and hit a home run,...
Does your Marketing Strategy Need Spring Cleaning?
Summer is fast approaching, bringing retailers a host of traffic-driving opportunities: from pre-vacation shopping and families looking for leisure activities during the long holidays, to a rise in tourist numbers and the annual back-to-school retail rush. Each of these – and more – provide retail organizations with an opportunity to drive profitability via a solid...
Blending Physical and Digital Channels is Just the Beginning
Omnichannel promised to integrate physical and digital channels, allowing retailers to deliver a seamless shopping experience. But in reality, because of stand-alone, legacy systems, many of these channels operate in silos, making it difficult to achieve full transparency and causing missed opportunities. Unified commerce unites an organization’s backend systems through a cloud platform so data...
Retailers, Evolve or Risk Failure: 3 Tactics for Leveraging Data
Retail is and has always been a fiercely competitive industry. In order to ensure success, retailers must constantly reinforce their points of differentiation through expanded capabilities, rather than making last-ditch adjustments in hopes of addressing fluctuating performance. Specifically, the best retailers leverage the wealth of available data supplied by in-store and online technologies in order...
Brick-and-Mortar Suits Online Store Retailer, Bonobos
Bonobos is a menswear retailer that launched in 2007 as an “aggressively online-only” brand. Since then, CEO Andy Dunn’s vision has changed drastically: recently, Dunn launched an experiential component of the Bonobos brand, while staying faithful to the company’s digital roots, through the invention of the “guideshop.” Guideshops serve as Bonobos’ brick-and-mortar alternative. The innovative...