5 Challenges that keep retailers up at night

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2 min readJan 8, 2019

The retail industry is continuously evolving every day to provide a satisfactory experience to the customer. As the retail industry is coping up with the modern trends, there are many challenges faced by retailers every single day.

Here are 5 nightmares for retailers which often keep them up at nights:

1. Keeping up with Customer Expectations

As a retailer, you should always optimize your store by learning modern trends and customers behaviors. But, there’s a problem. Customer’s choices change every day rapidly. Many retailers end up in a confusion on what elements are to be added in order to keep up with the customer’s expectations. The bottom line is to always invest time and money in innovation.

2. Gaining customer loyalty and trust

Brand Loyalty is directly proportional to the customer’s experience with the store. Retailers fail to provide a satisfactory experience to the customers which result in an adverse effect on retention rate.

Retailers must realize that providing a satisfactory experience is a key factor in growing their business. Programs like Loyalty rewards and retention strategies which gain loyalty must be implemented in order to cope with the challenge.

3. Failing to Implement Modern Technology solutions

Retailers have been struggling hard to get adjusted with the modern technology solutions and are failing to provide “Awe” Experiences to the customers. Centareum has developed the right orchestration of technologies such as Blockchain, Face recognition, high precision indoor location tracking, and Data analytics to provide a one-stop solution to our retail partners.

4. Not Knowing Customers Well

As a retailer, don’t even expect anything from your retail business if you don’t know your customers in and out. Many retailers end up not knowing their customers well and end up selling irrelevant products which result in a big lag in the sales graph. Retailers face a huge challenge in determining their target audience and by not testing with their combinations.

5. Lack of Creativity.

Retailers who believed only in implementing conventional marketing strategies has bought a drastic decrease in sales for their stores. As a retailer, If you want your store to be filled by huge crowds, then you have to take your marketing strategy to the next level; which is away from conventional tricks. Many retailers face a huge lack of creativity and fetching of modern marketing techniques like Proximity marketing.

The retail industry is bound to get hit by more challenges in coming days but We are Constantly making efforts to help retailers with modern technology and marketing tactics to keep retailers at a distance away from these challenges.

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