Smart Retail: Winning Ideas and Strategies From The Most Successful Retailers In The World, 4th edition

Published by Pearson Business (30 January 2017) © 2018

  • Richard Hammond
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Title overview

Smart Retail reveals the principles, strategies, and tactics used by the world's most successful retailers—and shows how to apply them to your own business. Fully revised and updated, this edition features new insights, contemporary retail success stories, and practical approaches to help drive growth, improve customer experiences, and increase sales.

Based on a simple question posed by retail expert Richard Hammond to leading retailers around the globe—'What makes you so good?'Smart Retail distils the answers into actionable lessons that can be implemented in businesses of any size.

  • Discover the secrets behind exceptional retail performance.
  • Increase sales with proven strategies and practical advice from leading retailers.
  • Create memorable customer experiences that inspire loyalty and repeat business.
  • Build a motivated, high-performing team that supports long-term success.

From creating outstanding customer experiences to understanding consumer behaviour and developing engaged teams, this practical guide provides the tools, ideas, and strategic thinking needed to thrive in today's competitive retail environment. Whether you're a retail manager, business owner, entrepreneur, or anyone involved in selling directly to customers, you'll gain valuable insights that can be put into action immediately.

Table of contents

  • Introduction – it's all change in retail and yet…
  • 1. The Big Idea: what are you even here for?
  • 2. Simplicity: your job is to make it easy for people to spend money
  • 3. Inspiration: make me want it
  • 4. Location Agnosticism: putting the store everywhere and anywhere it's relevant
  • 5. Mind States: targeted purchase or retail therapy?
  • 6. How to build great teams
  • 7. How to get people out of bed
  • 8. All we need is a little better every time
  • 9 We love shopping here!
  • 10 Price and value
  • 11 Promote or die
  • 12 Marketing for real people
  • 13 Discovery
  • 14 The great big theatre of shop
  • 15 Detail, detail, detail - the store environment
  • 16 And finally...how we got here
  • Epilogue - and we're done?

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