Experience Isn’t Expensive. Replacing It Is.

If you read the business news recently, you may have seen the story of Tony Barzar, a 60-year-old Costco cashier earning nearly $33 an hour. After decades with the company, his retirement savings have grown to more than $1 million. At first glance, it sounds like an unusual story about…
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How Strong Training Defuses Customer Conflict

If you’ve felt that customer interactions have become more stressful in recent years, you’re not alone. Across every service-driven industry, frontline employees deal with more tension, more frustration, and more hostility than ever before. But there’s good news: conflict isn’t an unavoidable cost of doing business. More often than not,…
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Incentivizing Great Mystery Shop Scores

Mystery shopping’s most important function is to serve as a training tool. That’s not the only function, of course: mystery shops are important for monitoring how effective your merchandising is or whether customers are enjoying or even understanding your product options, among other uses. But training should be its primary…
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