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Strategies Used By Retail Store Managers To Engage Customers, Jefferson Lee Haddox
Strategies Used By Retail Store Managers To Engage Customers, Jefferson Lee Haddox
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Between the years 2013 and 2016, e-commerce sales grew as a percent of total retail sales in the United States from 5.8% to 8.5%, an increase of $129 billion. Some brick-and-mortar (B & M) retailers struggle with maintaining the historic levels of revenue in their stores. A multiple case study design with retail store managers was used to understand what factors engage customers to shop at B & M store locations. The consumer-dominant value creation logic was the conceptual framework. Data were collected from semistructured interviews with 5 retail store managers in Texas who demonstrated successful strategies for engaging customers …
Strategies To Improve Business Performance With Information From Social Media, Taylor Chan
Strategies To Improve Business Performance With Information From Social Media, Taylor Chan
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In the past 3 decades, China has experienced rapid economic growth. The China retail market reached renminbi (RMB) 29,651 billion in 2016, up by 10.4% from 2015. Using traditional ways that developed before the Internet era to acquire information regarding customers' changing preferences for products and services in a fast-moving business world is insufficient to support management in the retail industry to make informed strategic decisions. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore successful customer-centric strategies that business leaders used to improve business performance with marketing information acquired from social media. The population comprised business leaders from …