How top retail and hospitality brands execute programs and standards on time, in full, at every site
Retail audits, store visits and hotel assessments are proven to protect the brand, drive brand standards, increase customer satisfaction and mitigate risks in multi-unit retail and hospitality. How exactly will retail audits conducted with Bindy benefit you? Here are some of the benefits you can expect from regularly visiting and auditing your sites with Bindy. … Continue reading 🚀 Who Benefits from Site Visits?
Creating a strong, recognizable retail or hospitality brand takes a lot of work. You need to ideate, craft the right positioning, and ensure that it resonates with your target market. Equally important is maintaining brand consistency and brand standards, especially if you’re running multiple stores, hotels or sites. To build trust and loyalty, you must … Continue reading 🚀 6 Ways to Protect The Brand With Site Visits
When district managers visit sites, they are bound to find issues. Even the best and most diligent operators make mistakes occasionally. Brand standards exist for a reason: they protect the brand and make sites more inviting to guests and more profitable. The action plan is an opportunity to apply corrective actions to problem areas. It … Continue reading 🚀 What is an Action Plan?
Implementing a retail audit process is neither time-consuming nor difficult. It is perhaps one of the easiest things an operations/sales team can do to boost in-store execution, customer satisfaction and sales. Here is how you can implement a retail audit process in five steps: Step 1: Let's Pause. do you need retail audit software? Asking … Continue reading 🚀 5 Steps to Implement a Retail Audit Process
A retail audit helps retail and hospitality brands execute brand standards, programs, and procedures in areas such as operations, merchandising, loss prevention, health and safety and security across all stores, on time and in full. The audit is sometimes called an assessment or simply a visit. The audit uses retail audit software, an actionable form … Continue reading 🚀 What is a Retail Audit?
Retail audits, also called Store Visits or Store Inspections, drive higher compliance with store program and brand standards. They are part of the retail execution workflow and designed to increase sales and profit margins, boost customer satisfaction and cut business risks. Maybe you are starting a retail audit program from scratch. Maybe you have an … Continue reading 🚀 How to Build a Retail Audit Checklist
Some swear by it. Other won't go near it. Mystery Shopping certainly has its supporters but also its detractors. In this article, we go over the key differences between mystery shopping and district manager led assessments. Let's dive in. District manager-led audits focus on the process A mystery shopping program and district manager audits ultimately … Continue reading 🚀 Mystery Shopping vs. District Managers
Presenting retail and hospitality customers with options is part of the Bindy culture. Let's discuss how you can select the right site execution software vendor, in six steps. Methodology Being a retail audit software vendor ourselves, it is arguably difficult not to be biased. For this reason, we remain neutral in the general discussion while … Continue reading 🚀 How to Select Retail and Hospitality Execution Software in 6 Steps
Retailers, manufacturers, distributors and operators are all struggling to do more with less. Fewer resources, smaller budget, less time. You need to communicate and execute programs and standards, you need to protect the brand, collect information from the field, and send directives to stores. You need to do that with limited resources. Do you buy … Continue reading 🚀 Operations Software: Buy or Build?
Asking a retail execution software vendor like Bindy whether you need this type of software may feel like asking a shoe salesperson whether you really need shoes. And yet the answer may surprise you. The business case for software automation hinges on your activity and the exposure, liability and costs that inconsistent or substandard execution may have … Continue reading 🚀 5 Reasons to Deploy Retail Execution Software
If a photo is worth a thousand words, can a video be priceless? Beyond the memes and cat videos, even beyond the helpful “do it yourself” home repair videos found on YouTube, videos deliver serious value to consumers and businesses. This is hardly news. Videos are one of the most consumed forms of media already. … Continue reading 5 Benefits of Videos for Brand Standards
Some retail and hospitality customers come to Bindy from a competing retail or hospitality execution platform they have outgrown or find too expensive. Others come from a workflow developed in house. It usually involves Excel™, email, phone calls and a large amount of human sweat equity to compile the data that was collected. Anyone who … Continue reading 🚀 Excel and Email vs Bindy
Assigning point values to inspection items is a common practice in retail and hospitality. The idea is to obtain an overall score for the store and an indication of the store's compliance with a program or sets of standards. Scoring a store may however trigger unexpected reactions from the franchisee or store manager. Most operators … Continue reading 🚀 Don’t Sweat the Score, Seize the Opportunity
It’s no secret that site visits are incredibly important to your retail operations. Store audits and inspections enable you to evaluate programs and initiatives, ensure compliance, and even connect with teams on the ground. However, they can also take time. Between audit preparations, travel time, inspecting stores, and following up, site visits can take anywhere … Continue reading 6 Ways to Save Time During Site Visits and Inspections
Having high standards and a strong plan of action is great, but even the best strategies will fall flat if they aren’t carried out properly. As Larry Bossidy, former AlliedSignal CEO wrote in the bestselling book, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, “Strategies most often fail because they aren’t well executed.” This lesson rings … Continue reading 6 Store Inspection Mistakes District Managers Make When Auditing Retail Stores
Pre-pandemic, district managers physically visiting the stores in their district, cluster or region (aka store audit, store walk, inspection, or visit) was considered a cornerstone of store operations best practices. When travel restrictions were put in place, many district managers became unable or limited as to how much time they could spend time on the … Continue reading How to Manage Store Operations Remotely
Conducting store inspections (also called retail audits, store visits, or store walks) should be on every retailer’s agenda to protect store operations. Why? Store inspections promote higher overall compliance with brand standards, shrink the gap between stores and head office, and improve customer experience by ensuring merchandising, service, and safety standards are executed consistently. So … Continue reading 4 Types of Inspections that Protect Store Operations
Whether you are a district manager, regional, territory, sales or cluster manager, you regularly have to visit the stores you are responsible for. Here are three ways you and your organization can save money on collecting and actioning store visit data. Consolidate Visits From Multiple Departments The needs of the merchandising department, the operations department, … Continue reading 3 Ways to Save Money on Store Visits
Your retail business is inherently complex. It has many moving parts and a multi-faceted cost structure. Cost of goods sold, labor costs, leasing fees, hydro costs...these costs are real and have a direct effect on a store's bottom line. Control your costs and if you sell a product for which there is demand in the … Continue reading The Business Case for Audits and Inspections in Retail
A smart retail checklist has points, best-practice pictures, supporting files, conditionals and action plan recommendations. It allows company standards to be checked, deficiencies tracked, assigned and resolved. It guarantees programs and policies are deployed in full, in time, in every store. A smart checklist is built, then used in the audit workflow. Retailers and hospitality … Continue reading What is a Smart Checklist?
EN 
AR 
CS 
DA 
NL 
FR 
DE 
EL 
HE 
HI 
ID 
IT 
JA 
KO 
PL 
PT 
RO 
ES 
SV 
TH 
TR 
VI