Welcome to a follow-up blog post on how to leverage an earned hours model to improve store performance. Today we’ll focus on how to address the gap between what a store is earning and its actual performance.
Scheduling can be simple to understand; however, scheduling optimization grows in complexity with every variable. Read about one supermarket manager’s transformative transition from position-based to task-based scheduling.
Reducing customer wait time at the front end equals profits, but few retailers maximize the relationship between in-store queues and customer expectations. We examine crowding and ways to improve flow throughout the store.
With limited resources, no labor management team can personally visit every store. How can you easily determine how well your labor model is working across the chain or identify any stores with significant operational issues? An earned hours program is the right place to start.
Grocery retailers must protect against foodborne illness, but few food safety solutions provide the long-term flexibility to continuously drive risk out of their fresh and prepared foods business. What capabilities are critical?
Store recovery can account for as much as 40 percent of sales floor labor. While there’s no avoiding it, there are strategies that retailers can put into practice to reduce labor spend and keep a better-looking sales floor presentation.
In 2016, Deloitte found digital interactions impacted 56 cents of every dollars spent in brick-and-mortar stores. Today’s digital natives are frequenting stores to purchase but with different expectations. What does that mean for retailers today?
Frictionless retail is taking the United Kingdom and global market by storm. It is an effective method for creating great in-store customer shopping experiences that include consumer personalization.
Brick-and-mortar retailers on the UK’s high street are suffering. Like a ghost town, thousands of physical locations have been left barren. However, with the right set of adaptations, stores are not doomed in the UK or abroad. Here’s why.
Store specification through clustering is key in creating optimal service strategies across varying demographic populations. Check out today’s blog post to learn how YouTube sensation Dude Perfect can teach us how to do clustering well.