In today's technology-driven retail environment, traditional marketing methods are losing ground to more interactive and dynamic strategies. Most of your customers are now influenced by online shopping, where they can easily find personalized and efficient shopping experiences.
In today’s technology-driven retail environment, traditional marketing methods are losing ground to more interactive and dynamic strategies. Most of your customers are now influenced by online shopping, where they can easily find personalized and efficient shopping experiences.
The missing key with eCommerce is a critical and strategic edge for physical stores: immersion. Integrating digital signage with retail software brings the advantages of online shopping into stores, while quite literally setting the stage for truly immersive shopping.
This fusion of signage and software doesn’t just represent a merger of technology, but a harmonization of customer experience and operational efficiency. When you can deliver content to screens in alignment with unique shoppers, you can provide the highest level of service unbounded by scale.
But what does a retail business need to know before it can architect its own next-generation of stores? This article will dig into systems, capabilities and benefits, so you will walk away with some tangible ideas about what you can integrate, and why.
Digital signage is reshaping the retail environment, driving unparalleled efficiency. Gone are the days of manually unpacking, organizing and placing static or paper signs throughout the store.
With digital displays, messages can be pre-scheduled and automatically displayed, eliminating unnecessary manual tasks and reclaiming space previously occupied by multiple signs. A single screen can now showcase a rotating playlist of various messages, allowing retailers to optimize floor space for more product displays.
Integration with POS (Point Of Sale) and Inventory Management systems amplifies these efficiencies. Real-time content updates become a reality; if stock dwindles, the signage can automatically show an ‘out of stock’ alert or recommend a replacement. Dynamic pricing is another significant advantage, enabling instantaneous price updates for promotions or discounts directly from the POS.
Ads are less effective when they drive out-of-stock products. Integrating Inventory Management software with digital signage can ensure that mistakes like this are not made. A bit more nuance and integration with Point of Sale Systems can bring even more benefits to inventory management, such as real-time pricing, automated clearance and inventory rotation to streamline operations.
When businesses have already integrated many key systems into an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution, integrating with digital signage is made that much easier. With all data available via a single API, digital signage professionals can leverage a unified dataset with a single source of truth to build any/all of the above.
We like to offer crawl, walk run strategies that help businesses grow their digital signage and see value at each stage of the process. We might start with a simple, beautiful retail digital signage solution.
But adding more integrations can create a Star Trek level store. CRM, sensors and Point of Sale integrations unlock an almost concierge- like experience where signage can display exclusive member deals in the aisle and then connect that offer seamlessly to the sale.
“Customers who visit us in store as well as online spend on average three times as much as our single-channel customers. So, in fact, we’ve seen the best of both worlds, the in-store world and the online world.”
Many retailers feared that omnichannel might be a trend that came and went with a global pandemic. But retailers who get omnichannel right report the ability to stay sticky with their best customers.
Utilizing an omnichannel approach to the store (website and online) and loyalty points and offers are the four cylinders of the modern retail ‘engine,’ allowing businesses to connect with the customer along other avenues such as digital media/content, finance offers etc.
In addition to streamlining omnichannel, digital signage can drive more specialized strategies on the store level. Promoting complementary or seasonal products, for instance.
Fill out the form for the full whitepaper.
