Convenience Store News – Paying Attention to Checkout Pays Dividends

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Tensator’s Business Development Manager Louis Ruiz shines a spotlight on the details in his exclusive article in Convenience Store News, on why “Paying Attention to Checkout Pays Dividends.”

With so many convenient options for customers to shop, it’s hard to believe there are still checkout lines (single, multi-lane, manned or self-serve) that have customers abandoning loaded shopping baskets/carts. For some, it is a one-time abandonment; for others, it’s a forever thing. And along with the abandoned basket/cart comes passionate rants on Twitter and Facebook.

In a recent survey conducted by Tensator for a U.S. convenience store retailer, there were more than 164 walkaways in the span of one week due to lines that were just not moving fast enough for customers to justify their wait time. Can convenience store retailers really afford to leave money on the table for a problem that is readily addressable?

Let’s take a look at the checkout landscape for 2015, fix those wait times and maximize every square inch of retail space with an eye on increasing profits at the checkout line.  Read the entire article here: http://bit.ly/1E84JVG

 

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