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The person paying is not the person you need to win
Back to school is one of the most expensive ranges a retailer buys, with the shortest window to sell it. Almost everything on the floor is still built for the parent.
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Practical thinking on retail execution, leadership and commercial performance. Written from the floor, not the whiteboard.
Back to school is one of the most expensive ranges a retailer buys, with the shortest window to sell it. Almost everything on the floor is still built for the parent.
One unhelpful exchange at a till can destroy more future value than the person having it earns in a year. Almost nobody working the floor has ever been told that.
Conversion is a ratio, and any ratio improves if you shrink the denominator. Which is how a KPI nobody outside your business cares about ends up costing you the top line.