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4 Ways an Effective Customer Flow Management Strategy Can Improve Your Business

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As a result, customer flow management is more important than ever as leaders seek to empower the customer, improve the employee experience and collect actionable data to potentially scale their business. Here are just a few ways a good system can improve your business operations. Improve customer service.

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Office Depot Improves In-Store Task Completion Rate by 42% with Cloud Technology

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Office Depot ’s task completion rate has reached 90% across its network of 1,500 stores and 13,000 associates since implementing Zebra’s Workcloud software and mobile computing solutions. Overall, store managers have been able to save 6% on payroll annually and reduce time spent scheduling from approximately three hours to 30 minutes a week.

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Family Dollar Promises Mobile App Will Support Ecommerce by 2024

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As part of its overall digital transformation, Family Dollar will debut a mobile app in October that will allow users to manage coupons and more easily locate products with improved search functionality. Family Dollar worked with digital consultancy Publicis Sapient to lead the mobile introduction.

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Retail’s Future Requires a Shift from Mobile-First to Mobile-Only

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The turmoil also proved that mobile technology enables needed flexibility in times of disruption and drives superior customer experiences that make retailers more competitive. As retailers plan for the future, getting and keeping the flexibility needed for retail success will require mobile-only strategies. ” What’s Next?

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How Retailers can use Digital Product Strategy to Improve CX and Fuel Growth

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Since the pandemic, seven in 10 consumers have used mobile devices and apps for shopping, and it’s not just millennials and Gen Z; Gen X and baby boomers are 68% and 56% more likely, respectively, to use their mobile device to make purchases than they were a few years ago. of ecommerce sales in 2024. of ecommerce sales in 2024.

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Rogers & Hollands Boosts Customer Service With Mobile POS System

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The retailer has utilized the mobile system to improve service efficiency and give its associates access to each customer’s transaction history, wish lists and preferences so that they can provide more personalized shopper interactions.

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The Home Depot Deploys 125,000 Multi-Function Associate Mobile Devices Chainwide

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The Home Depot will roll out more than 125,000 new hdPhones to associates in order to improve both the worker and customer experience at its stores. The mobile devices support communications throughout the entire store and in the parking lots, via both text messaging and walkie-talkie communications. stores by the end of 2022.

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