Tagged with brick and mortar store

4 Easy Tactics to Optimize Your Store

4 Easy Tactics to Optimize Your Store

1. Create a Strategic Store Layout Create an inviting atmosphere for students where they can browse or just hang out between classes. Design a path through the store that they can follow, starting with an inviting entrance. Pay attention to where you place products to entice students. Promote impulse purchases by grouping like items and … Continue reading

How To Create Compelling In-Store Signage

How To Create Compelling In-Store Signage

It’s easy to boost sales using compelling in-store signage in your store, 8 out of 10 consumers have entered a store because a sign caught their interest. Signage can help quickly point out new products or promotions so students can easily educate themselves when sales associates aren’t available. Effective retail signage has become part of … Continue reading

What You Need to Know about the Customer Journey

What You Need to Know about the Customer Journey

Shopping is changing and with Generation Z doing most of their initial research online, it’s important to understand the customer journey. Learn a student’s shopping process you so can prepare for your part in their decision making. Realizing the journey students go through is important to make the sale. To get a better understanding of … Continue reading

3 Ways to Adapt in a Changing Retail Landscape

3 Ways to Adapt in a Changing Retail Landscape

Today’s new digital consumers have very different expectations, and it can be challenging to keep up with their needs. It’s important to have a competitive edge in today’s evolving retail landscape. Here are three ways to make your store stand out and how to implement each tactic. Educate Staff It’s more important than ever to … Continue reading

3 Ways to Rethink Your Store and Thrive

3 Ways to Rethink Your Store and Thrive

In today’s challenging retail landscape, ask yourself how you stand out in a sea of competitors that are trying to do the same. Retailers have to reframe their way of thinking to keep up with the demand of shoppers in the digital era. You must clearly define your store’s purpose with students to be successful. … Continue reading

How To: Implement Consistent Customer Service

How To: Implement Consistent Customer Service

Consistency is powerful and it defines the type of experience students will have when they shop in your store. Now more than ever, students are shopping in brick-and-mortar stores solely because of the experience they get there. Remember, your employees are the face of your store and ultimately can control the type of interactions students … Continue reading

How To: Create a Positive Customer Experience

How To: Create a Positive Customer Experience

In the changing era of retail, brick-and-mortar shops are still coming up short on winning over shoppers with in-store experiences. In a survey, GPShopper found that more than one-third of shoppers said they “feel nothing” when asked about their initial reaction after shopping in stores. When consumers feel indifferent about their shopping experience, they will … Continue reading

What’s Trending: Robots in Retail Stores

What’s Trending: Robots in Retail Stores

Having customer associates present in a store to answer customer’s inquiries is the main thing that separates brick-and-mortar from online stores. Often students do their research online, but they head into a store to get any remaining questions or concerns answered and ultimately to buy the product. It’s important to have retail associates ready and … Continue reading