Retail Support - Storefront, Field Site and Customer-Oriented Retail Marketing - Knowledge, understanding and action based on many years of retail support experiences

Store Location Evaluation

Highly accurate evaluation on 'new store potential' as well as support for revitalizing existing stores.

  • Evaluation on potential store location

    Potential store locations are diagnosed by comparing business performance of existing stores.

  • Revitalization of existing stores
    • In addition to basic store classifications, the strengths and weaknesses of individual stores are identified.
    • Optimizing the sales potential of a particular location vs. area potential.

CS Research

Reinforce the entire sales chain by accurately identifying specific customer needs.

  • Storefront survey
    • Directly interviewing customers while they are shopping at stores.
    • Collecting real opinions of shoppers, reflecting shopping conditions.
  • Fixed-point observation system for customers' voices
    • Help organize customer panelists.
    • Implementing interviews and support for maintaining panels.
    • Useful for identifying existing customers and capturing their opinions.
  • On-line (sMoni) surveys on competitive customers (consumer research)

    Using our proprietary online panel, sMoni, the voices of consumers can be heard at a wider level.

Domestic Online Panel sMoni

Mystery Shoppers

Aims to maintain/ improve store operations from the customer's point of view.

  • QSC diagnosis from the customer's point of view
    • Mystery shoppers evaluate that protocol is followed by sales clerks.
    • Mystery shoppers trained by your company's manuals visit your stores and evaluate store operations and customer service.
  • Sales clerk manuals
    • Mystery shoppers observe store operations and sales clerks' behavior from the customer's point of view.
    • Post-interviews can be arranged with the mystery shoppers.

Competitor Survey

Objective information is gathered and analyzed in order to understand how to effectively compete with competitors.

  • Store comparison

    Information about competitive stores' product selection and sales promotion activities is collected and analyzed.

  • Price comparison

    Competitors' pricing (individually or category-based) at each retail site and price comparison with your stores and the market average are analyzed.

ES Research

Maximizing store potential by motivating the workforce.

  • Employees' motivation and morale survey

    Employees' motivation and morale are measured in order to develop HR strategies for improving the working environment and the use of human resources.

  • Human resources and organization survey

    Various research methodologies are implemented in order to develop structural revitalization and to optimize the personnel evaluation system.

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Proprietary Online Panel by SMIS

  • Domestic Online Panel sMoni
  • Overseas online panels COMCOM STATION
  • NTT DATA SMIS
  • Our Service
  • Corporate
  • System Development

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