Why businesses are ‘designing out’ queues
Businesses are weighing up the costs of queuing and using innovative ways to do away with queues, or at least make the perceptions of waiting less painful.
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By Jason Pallant, Swinburne University of Technology
Have you ever you looked for a product online and then been recommended the exact th…
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Coles has been praised for a successful trial of a new “Quiet Hour” initiative in some of its Melbourne stores this week, with a custome…
Supermarket giant Coles has put the onus on its suppliers to justify future price hikes, challenging them to buy groceries on $150 a week to…
Keen Australian shoppers have their fingers poised above the keyboard as retailers go for deep-discounts as part of tonight’s flash-sale …
If customers are bothered by staff it can turn them off a purchase or even an entire company, and one Korean cosmetics store is trying to p…
In my last article I covered pain points as a strategy to engage customers. This week I’m going to touch on two other things you can do.
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