The growing phenomenon of showrooming plagues sales managers and small retailers in ever increasing numbers as technology has evolved to create smarter and more empowered consumers. Showrooming refers to the phenomenon of consumers - or potential consumers - browsing products in a retail store, and then ultimately purchasing online at a lower price through another store. In the age of the Internet, the sight of a customer who will visit a store and use their smartphone to scan the barcode, hoping to find the same item at a cheaper price from a different vendor has become commonplace. Through exhaustive research, the authors of this book investigate this exploding trend and offer strategies, tools, and training approaches that can help to transform showrooming customers into in-store sales.Offering retail managers and owners deep insight into how they can stem the loss of resources to showrooming, this book, through a close, systematic examination of showrooming, provides insight and understanding of the value added through customer service and expert salesperson knowledge. Retailers will learn how to implement essential, incremental changes to infuse value in the customer experience and entice significantly improved in-store sales while building core customer relationships and enhancing loyalty.

Strategies, tools, and training approaches that can help to transform showrooming customers into in-store sales

1. Introduction: What is Showrooming? 2. Today's Customers 3. Reward Systems: Compensation at the Store Level 4. Reward Programs: Loyalty at the Store Level5. In-Store Wi-Fi: Engaging Showroomers on Their Terms6. Price Matching: to Match, or Not to Match? 7. No-No's at the Store Level: What NOT to do When Faced with Showrooming8. Employee Coping Behaviors: Handling the Stresses of Showrooming with Proactive Engagement 9. Customer Service in a Technological World: A Timeless Strategy for a Digital Dilemma 10. Employees as Knowledge Brokers: Understanding How Expertise is Your AllyAfterward