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Self-Checkout Woes: When ‘Convenience’ Hurts Your Experience

When self-checkout stands first became popular in the early 2000s, the promise was an attractive one: get in-and-out of the store faster by not having to wait in line for a checker. This worked especially well when you had just a few items—the regular checkout lines would handle the cartloads…
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How Loyal Are Your Customers?

Most business operators understand that customer loyalty is a key component of long-term success. Even in the simplest terms, we know loyal customers are repeat customers, so the more loyal ones we have, the more recurring revenue we’re guaranteed. But customer loyalty encompasses more than just the likelihood that they’ll…
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Customer Loyalty Is Always Up for Grabs

One of the most important pursuits for any company is maximum customer loyalty. In fact, we’ve devoted countless blog posts to this idea, and we’ve structured our mystery-shopping service around the idea of earning that loyalty. Why? Because loyal customers equate to repeat business, naturally, and they also lead to…
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Our Shared Passion

Last week, we covered how important it is to ask yourself why you’re in the business that you are, even beyond the goal of attaining financial security and providing for a family. We discussed how you’re able to derive a whole separate level of fulfillment and pride by believing in…
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Why Do Customers Choose Your Business?

Unless your company happens to operate in a complete monopoly, it has competitors. Perhaps even an industry full of them, especially given how small the world has become through the power of the Internet, and not just the other guys down the street or across town. Given the number of…
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The Power of Convenience on the Customer Experience

Returning to Shep Hyken’s 2020 special report that we discussed a couple weeks back, let’s turn our attention to the price are willing to pay for their customer experience. We can surmise that some people are indeed willing to pay more for higher quality, naturally. Otherwise, luxury brands wouldn’t exist,…
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