How winning retailers create value for their customers
Updated: Apr 21
The latest research* from a survey of 100 Retailers and 1000 consumers found that in order to differentiate from the discounters and online stores, retailers have to offer an excellent customer experience.
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What is an “excellent customer experience”?
Some of the answers uncovered were:
1. One that delivers a consistent and easy shopping experience.
2. Building deeper relationships with existing customers is the key outcome.
3. Having a great loyalty programme is an important step.
4. Personalised communications are critical – with products and offers that are relevant and specific.
Obstacles and challenges
There are several big obstacles for modern retailers striving for excellence instore. These include:
- having a clear vision of the value you want to deliver to consumers,
- creating a company-wide belief in the importance of your loyalty programme,
- integrating your POS system with your customer database and website and marketing platform,
- coming up with a strategy that builds stronger customer relationships across all channels,
- being able to measure results and prove what works.
How to WIN with a state-of-the-art Digital Marketing Programme
The retail WINNERS are differentiating their business by following these key steps:
- Building a culture of “customer-centricity” where everyone on the team understands the value of customer data.
- Regularly communicating “value” to their best customers through personalised marketing campaigns.
Recommendations
1. Check your website and other digital communications platforms to check that they are up-to-date and are designed to make it easier for your customers to do business with you.
2. Work with digital marketing and customer experience professionals to build a strategy that differentiates your business.
3. Employ outside experts to solve the technical challenges of customer data capture, integration and reporting of results.
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*Retail Systems Research, February 2023, https://www.rsrresearch.com/research/what-makes-an-excellent-customer-experience-customers-and-retailers-weigh-in