Is Self-Checkout a Self-Imposed Hardship on Retail and Grocery? 8 Ways to make self-checkout a net-positive for staff and customers

Is Self-Checkout a Self-Imposed Hardship on Retail and Grocery? 8 Ways to make self-checkout a net-positive for staff and customers

The following is the first article in a 3-part series called “Attention Shoppers… The Competitive Strategy Approach to Addressing the Elephant in the Room of the Retail Crisis: The Customer Experience” The news about retail challenges is getting hard to ignore. This...
Re-post: Lowe’s has an answer for Target and Walmart’s theft problems

Re-post: Lowe’s has an answer for Target and Walmart’s theft problems

We’ve written about the decline of service in retail generally. In the home improvement sector retailers and customers are thinking similarly to resolve a problem that seemed like a good idea at the time. We note with interest in particular the Lowe’s CEO...
Desperate times, creative measures

Desperate times, creative measures

7 ways for grocers to gain customer attention when budgets are stretched “Improvise. Overcome. Adapt.” It sounds easy enough when a square-jawed, upright Clint Eastwood barks orders to a group of elite  Marines in the film Heartbreak Ridge. But for American consumers,...