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From One Store to an Organised Retail Business: Take the First Step
Business Owners Should Care about Organised and Unorganised Retail Because an Unorganised System Cannot Be Easily Scaled. Unorganised businesses are often seen working without centralised inventory management. This makes their inventory levels unpredictable, leading...
Dark Store Setup from Layout to Last Mile
In the late night hours, when you are hungry and scroll your phone for a delivery, you are sure that you will receive your order shortly. All this, from tapping on the phone until the delivery happens pretty fast. This is possible because of the people at the dark...
Ten-Minute Delivery, Zero Room for Error- The Operations Behind a Profitable Dark Store
A rider stands outside the shutter with one foot on the pedal. Inside, an order is still one item short. The missing item is a packet of bread. However, the bread was listed in stock but it was not on the shelf. Now the rider is waiting and the customer watches the...
Dark Store vs Traditional Retail Store
Picture a successful entrepreneur with two quotes in front of him. One of them is for a beautiful location on a busy avenue, and the second one is for a basic premises in the back street that guarantees a very low level of walk-ins. The first location is really...
Opening a New Retail Store. Are your SOPs ready?
An SOP-based operations blueprint is a set of rules telling what to do, when, how, where, and by whom. It works at the level of execution. At the micro-level, SOP for retail business define how every store operation must be executed. At the multi-store level, it...
How to Expand a Retail Business from 5 Stores to 25 Stores (Part 1/2)
The secret to modern-day business expansion lies in planning and technology. While planning is all-encompassing in itself, technology needs a separate mention because of its far-reaching capabilities in both planning and action. This blog highlights specific steps and...
Tips to Build Your E-Commerce Website
Tips to Build Your E-Commerce Website Nowadays, just about everything we do is online, including shopping. eCommerce is booming now more than ever before. A well-designed e-commerce site gives you the opportunity to build your brand, connect with more customers, and...
What is Omnichannel Retailing
What is Omnichannel Retailing In today's world, online and offline shopping are no longer separate experiences. The retail consumer now prefers to make purchases digitally, in-store, and through mobile apps equally. To put it another way, they want the freedom to shop...
08 Reasons Why Retail Businesses Fail?
08 Reasons Why Retail Businesses Fail? The failure rate of new businesses is approximately 20% the first two years, 46% the first five years, and 33% the first ten years. The majority of retail businesses begin well, but often veer off course somewhere along the way....
How Can Supermarket Go Omnichannel? | Omnichannel for Supermarket
How Can Supermarket Go Omnichannel? Omnichannel for Supermarket Nearly 3,000 adults responded to a recent survey stating that technology have made them impatient in shopping now than they were three years ago and that they will be even more so in the future. How do...
Implementing SOPs | How to Implement SOP |Standard Operating Procedures
Implementing SOPs | How to Implement SOP |Standard Operating Procedures The world is undergoing a seismic shift. Every day, markets become more volatile, businesses face more challenges, and organizations become more competitive. As a result, organizations need to...
How Is E-Commerce Affecting Retailing? | E-Commerce Or Retail?
How Is E-Commerce Affecting Retailing? | E-Commerce Or Retail? The world of shopping, which was only meant to take place in physical stores a few years ago, has taken on an entirely different form with the advent of technology. Retail shops are either already online...