The Retailer?s Role In Quality Retailing ? The Emerging Scenario In India
The Indian retail industry is thriving today. There is stiff competition among Indian and foreign retailers to attract customers and retain them. In this tug-of-war, quality retailing has emerged as the solution. The retailer who provides quality products and services along with a quality shopping experience succeeds in the long run.
The quality of the product offered by the retailer has two aspects ? the perceived quality and the actual quality. Perceived quality or point of sale quality refers to the image that the customer has about the product while buying it. The actual quality or the point of use quality is the quality of the product that the consumer experiences while using it. The retailer plays a very important role in building up perceived quality with the use of attractive display. The retailer is in direct contact with the customers and so he can play a significant part in helping the manufacturer reduce the gap between actual and perceived quality. The retailer should also ensure quality at the various stages of the supply chain so that the quality of the product is not affected.
Another important factor to be considered for quality retailing is the quality of the services provided to the customer. Today?s customer wants a unique shopping experience. Retailers are striving to help customers enjoy their shopping expedition as much as possible. The difference between shopping in India and shopping abroad is reducing gradually, particularly with several large malls coming up all over India. Customer mentality is different in different countries. Particularly in India, there are huge cultural differences among the people of different states, which in turn affect their buying behavior. In this scenario, it becomes necessary for the retailer to survey the customers? culture and expectations so that he can train his staff to appropriately meet these expectations.
Visual merchandising, mystery shopping and due diligence testing are three of the major concepts being embraced by retailers to help in attracting and retaining customers.
Visual merchandising is the creation of an attractive visual image to induce the customers to buy from a certain retail outlet. Sometimes, it is mistaken to be the same as window display, but in fact, window display is only a very small part of visual merchandising. It deals with the entire image presented by the retail outlet to the customer. It includes several aspects such as the flooring and lighting used in the store, the color co-ordination in the store, uniforms of the staff, the way in which the staff interacts with the customers, mannequins used, the design of the trial rooms ? in short, every thing that creates an image about the store in the mind of the customer. More and more retailers are understanding the importance of visual merchandising in augmenting sales and are indulging in it. Visual merchandising is being considered as an investment and not as an expense.
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