Back to basics & trying to win the hearts & minds of our customers. Having completed Customer Round Tables in my store, it brought me back to one of the first books I read as a first time manager (if you know the book, yes I am that old🙈) & it reminded me of 2 “Secrets”
1) do not pay/bribe customers. My first table wasn’t as fruitful as I would have liked. This was because I provided hot drinks & a great selection of our in store sweet treats. Trying to get our loyal customer base to tell us what they were dissatisfied with was difficult. They wanted to lavish us in praise as they thought that’s what we wanted to hear.
Lesson 1: Useful participants are the ones willing to give up their time. “Praise has very little value in making you customer driven”
2) targeting our loyal customers is biased. We are speaking to the people who have decided to shop with us “they do not include people who prefer to shop elsewhere”
Lesson 2: I’m heading to my competitors with my invites next time. One morning a week spent talking to their customers. Asking how I can make them mine?
So no matter how long in the tooth you are, or how many podcasts or TedTalks that are created, sometimes dusting down a very old book and re reading it brings much more value.
🛒Morrisons is getting shoppers involved in its management meetings, with monthly customer roundtables set to take place in stores.
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Morrisons invites shoppers to management meetings under revival plans
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