How top retail and hospitality brands execute programs and standards on time, in full, at every site
Loss prevention is a very real challenge for retailers. Shrinkage is a problem that costs retailers billions of dollars every year due to external theft, internal theft, and administrative errors. Regularly using a Loss Prevention Checklist across your locations ensures compliance with policy, reinforces training, and demonstrates loss prevention is a priority for your business. … Continue reading Loss Prevention Checklist
Use this sample Fire Protection Checklist to create or update your fire protection program across your retail locations. While individual situations vary, the following sample checklist details specific issues that may be included in an inspection checklist for fire protection. Methodology: This checklist was compiled from a number of sources and moderated using industry research. Fire … Continue reading Fire Protection Checklist
Use this sample Washroom Inspection Checklist to inspect your commercial restrooms and ensure they function properly and are not unpleasant for customers. For bathroom cleaning specifically, refer to the Commercial Restroom Cleaning Checklist. General Washroom Are the washroom’s door and handle clean and in good repair? Is the washroom’s interior clean upon first impression? The … Continue reading Washroom Inspection Checklist
Retail execution is the set of practices and enabling technologies responsible for the complete and timely implementation of store programs, standards and directives at store level. This article sheds some light on the purpose, scope and best practices of retail execution. The intended audience is merchandisers, retail operations professionals, area sales professionals, consumer packaged goods … Continue reading What is retail Execution? Purpose, Scope and Best Practices.
The automotive industry in the US is ever-evolving and highly competitive. With vehicle owners always on the lookout for convenient repair and maintenance options, auto shops need to have a solid understanding of customer needs, technology, and pricing in order to be successful. The sheer number of parts that an average vehicle has indicates the … Continue reading 6 Areas You Need to Get Right in Your Automotive Maintenance Business
An enormous number of hotels are coming up across the world with an emphasis on the novelty element. From tree-top rooms to underwater locations, the list of innovative hotel ideas is endless. No matter how unique these may be, however, the fundamentals of hospitality and hotel management will never go out of fashion. Most of … Continue reading Want to Run a Successful Hotel? Focus on These 6 Areas
The exterior areas around your stores are critically important to first impressions! Use an Exterior Area Checklist to ensure the area around your stores is clean, safe and invites customers to come into your stores. This sample Exterior Area Checklist comes from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and is included here in case … Continue reading Exterior Area Checklist
The parking industry is largely divided into two types: on-street parking and off-street parking. On-street parking is predominantly owned by municipalities while off-street parking is privately owned. Both types need to ensure lots are in good repair and compliant with regulations and customer expectations. Here is a sample Parking Lot Inspection Checklist to help you … Continue reading Parking Lot Inspection Checklist
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
The furniture store industry has grown 1.7% per year on average since 2017 and currently stands at a market size of $75.7 billion. The market is extremely competitive, and one of the ways you can ring up more sales is by making your furniture showroom easy to navigate. If you can help customers find what … Continue reading How to Make Your Furniture Store Easier to Navigate
Ever since the pandemic, there has been a notable increase in the number of households with pets. Most pet owners consider their pets to be a part of their family and care deeply about their needs. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that the pet care market size in the US is expected to reach $22.5 billion … Continue reading How to Make Your Pet Store Easy to Navigate
When a customer walks into a store, first impressions really do matter. As retail grows more competitive, a clean, well-considered store layout can easily mean the difference between gaining a sale or losing one. So, what do furniture and home decor retailers need to consider in order to design a showroom and product displays that … Continue reading How to Design a Furniture Showroom That Converts
Your pet shop’s adherence to safety and compliance standards is crucial to improving the customer experience, employee safety, and perhaps most importantly, the health and safety of the animals you sell. You’ll need to run regular partial or full audits of your store to catch issues as they arise. The best audit strategy is typically … Continue reading Running a Pet Store? Audit These 5 Things to Ensure Safety and Compliance
As consumer demand for sustainability and minimalism continues to grow, secondhand products are back in vogue. The market is expected to grow 11X faster than the retail clothing sector and may reach $77 billion by 2025. Indeed, with 16-18% of Americans shopping at thrift stores in a year, the secondhand market is gaining a lot … Continue reading How to Run a Successful Thrift Store
Brand standards span broad areas of a retail or hospitality network, including branding, customer service, product assortment, preferred vendors, merchandising, cleanliness, human resources, security, loss prevention and fire prevention. They govern how the business should be presented, how specific objectives should be completed and how programs should be implemented. Most customer-facing franchise-based groups, especially in … Continue reading What Are Brand Standards?
Values related to sustainability, community, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have become front and center for consumers, which is why many brands have ramped up their CSR efforts over the last few years. However, it’s worth pointing out that some retailers have long been prioritizing these values. We’re referring to co-op stores. Also known as … Continue reading 7 Tips to Successfully Manage a Retail Co-op
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
Use this checklist to ensure the restrooms at your hotel, restaurant or commercial facility remain clean and healthy for customers and staff. To ensure your restrooms function properly and are pleasant for customers, also refer to the Washrooms Inspection Checklist. Pre-cleaning Protective equipment worn, including gloves and goggles where spraying is involved. Wet Floor signs … Continue reading Commercial Restroom Cleaning Checklist
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
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
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