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‘Tis the season to rev up the customer service

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Statistics for the 2011 shopping holiday season look a little scary for merchants this year. According to a Price Grabber survey, 45 percent of consumers say they are going to spend less on holiday shopping compared to what they spent in 2010. Luckily 49 percent say they are going to spend the same amount.

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Small Business Saturday – a boon for local retail stores

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A survey done by American Express revealed one-half of the nation’s retail sales come from small locally owned businesses. Retail reward programs no guarantee of customer loyalty Most retail organizations use discounts to entice customers to buy.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Impact of poor customer service.

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What Brookes is doing isn’t new, but he seems to be taking a more methodical approach and expects a five to ten percent growth for 2011 notwithstanding of course interest rates, unemployment, and the value of the Aussie dollar. Also, customers complained most items were more expensive than other competing stores.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

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Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app. Loyalty programs are essentially a value exchange. consumer goods (Fitbit).