Electronic Kiosks in Retail Service Delivery

Abstract

In-store interactive kiosks using Internet technology represent a channel within a channel in many retail and service settings. They offer wide-ranging informational, transactional and promotional benefits, as well as contributing to customer relationship management. Widespread adoption by customers is, however, required to realize their full potential. Drawing upon the diffusion of innovations and technology acceptance models, two empirical studies are reported, one using a kiosk prototype, the other an in-store trial system. In both cases, a model was able to predict around 50% of intention to use. Implications for retail strategy, positioning within stores, facility promotion and system design are discussed.     

Consumer Perceptions of Financial Service Offerings in Retail Outlets

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The Retail Park: Customer Usage and Perceptions of a Retailing Innovation

Recently described as a ‘peculiarly British innovation’, retail parks are an increasingly important element of the UK's urban retail structure. Yet relatively little is known about customer usage and perceptions of this innovative retail form. A study of the Abbey Trading Centre, an unplanned retail park on the outskirts of Belfast, reveals that the complex is patronised by middle-class families of one-stop-shoppers. The perceived advantages and disadvantages of shopping in the retail park are also explored and it is argued that these may help explain the evolution of retailing innovations.     

Bank Deposit Rate Deregulation and Customer Service Levels

Liberal branch-banking laws have been shown to result in superior customer service. However, some have attributed this to restrictive deposit rate ceilings that have forced banks to compete on a nonprice basis. One form of customer service—accessibility—is modeled and the role of branching prior to and after deposit rate ceilings were phased out is evaluated. Branching benefits are reaffirmed, suggesting customers should support efforts to liberalize geographic expansion in banking.     

刍议"新零售"风潮下电商客户服务策略的重构

"新零售"就是以最新的理念和思维为指导,对传统零售方式进行改良和创新。"新零售"的到来,必定会催生新的消费文化,进而引发客户服务的一系列变革,重构我们的售前、售中、售后客服策略是大势所趋。     

Customer Service in Selected Branches of a UK Clearing Bank

This paper reports the results of a pilot survey which examines the quality of service given to customers at pre-selected branches of a major UK clearing bank. A number of discernable inconsistencies or gaps are identified between what bank staff said on being interviewed and what was observed. Directions for future research are indicated.     

Credibility and Staff Conduct Make or Break Bank Customer Service Quality

ABSTRACT

Service quality is assessed by customers along the dimensions of staff conduct, credibility, communication, and access to teller services. Credibility and staff conduct emerge as the highest loading first-order factors. This highlights the significance of rectifying mistakes while keeping customers informed, and employing branch staff that are responsive and civilized in their conduct. Discovery of a valid second-order factor, namely, overall customer service quality, underscores the importance of providing quality service across all its dimensions. For example, if the bank fails to rectify mistakes and keep customers informed but excels in all other dimensions, its overall customer service quality can still be rated poorly.     

零售企业顾客忠诚度培养战略研究

<正>随着WTO的加入,大批世界级零售企业进入我国,对我们零售企业既带来了机遇,又带来了挑战。再加上我国零售业发展迅速,零售网点大幅度增加,顾客拥有了越来越多的选择权,零售企业为了赢得更多的顾客,必须提供优质的服务。在竞争异常激烈的环境中,谁拥有更多的     

零售业的全面顾客满意

零售业的顾客识别，包括内部顾客—员工的识别及外部顾客—消费者的识别；提高顾客满意度的途径。应从对员工的定期培训、与其经常沟通、灵活的用人机制、适当的激励措施、创造良好的组织氛围等几方面来提高员工的满意度；从树立企业形象、提供超值服务、信息公开化、降低商品价格、建立服务品牌、迅速化解顾客的不满意、生产ＰＢ产品等几方面来提高顾客的满意度。     

关于零售会员制培养顾客忠诚的分析与策略

零售企业一直在思考如何找到顾客、影响顾客、创造顾客价值、争夺顾客,最终做到赢得顾客并长久地保留住顾客。而新零售的出现,就实现了"以产品为中心"到"以顾客为中心"的巨大转变。会员制对于零售行业来说,可以提高顾客参与度、精准地满足消费者的个性化需求以及提供增值的差异性服务。因此,企业应该重视会员开发与维护,从而实现会员长久。     

Managing a Global Retail Brand in Different Markets: Meta-Analyses of Customer Responses to Service Encounters

This study investigates how retailers can leverage their brand to shape customers’ satisfaction with service encounters. It develops and tests hypotheses about how brand, store, and consumer factors moderate customer responses to experience clues during retail service encounters. Six meta-regression analyses synthesize and compare results from 842 satisfaction equations describing customers’ encounters with a global retailer operating 400 stores in 32 countries. The results show how customers weigh their perceptions of service encounters differently depending on brand, store, and consumer factors. In markets where customers believe the retailer has high holistic brand quality, they place less weight on experience clues within the store. In markets where customers believe the retailer’s service brand promise, they place more weight on in-store experience clues. In markets where the retailer promises utilitarian value, customers weigh functional experience clues more heavily. In markets with an online purchasing channel, the effect of experience clues common to offline and online store environments is magnified, and unique clues are diminished. In addition, customers heavily weigh experience clues that fit their goals. In general, retail success factors include high brand quality (which makes customers more forgiving), a service brand promise that is mirrored in the store image (which makes customers attend to the experience clues aligned with them), and the careful monitoring and managing of retail touchpoints (to customize experience clues to each market). In this way, retailers can use customer-based strategies to effectively design and manage their global retail brand in different markets.     

论我国零售银行业务的发展

我国零售银行业务在短短的几年时间内获得了较快的发展,实规了历史性的跨跃,但与发达国家相比,总体规模依然很小,零售银行业务占商业银行利润来源和业务总量的比重仍然偏低.我国零售银行业务的发展仍然存在着许多问题:商业银行的风险控制能力比较薄弱,产品同质性高.缺乏核心竞争力,银行的服务意识和营销能力不足,公司治理不完善,缺乏有效的激励约束机制.拓展国有商业银行零售银行业务,应强化风险管理,构筑风控体系,完善公司治理结构,健全激励约束机制,加强客户关系管理,实施差别化服务,从而更快更好地创造客户价值,实现银行价值与客户价值的有机统一.     

Client Perceptions of the Customer Orientation of Advertising Agencies

Abstract

A national random sample of advertisers evaluated the customer orientation of their advertising agencies. The respondents also rated the importance of various agency attributes for agency selection, as well as their level of satisfaction with the performance of their current advertising agencies. Client perceptions of the customer orientation of advertising agencies was found to be significantly related to clients' satisfaction with agency performance. The importance of customer oriented selling behaviors by advertising agencies are discussed.     

服务质量衡量及其客户满意度评价系统研究

CRM体现了以客户为中心的管理思想,是提高服务质量的重要手段。客户满意度评价则是CRM特别是分析CRM的关键。基于此,提出了用客户满意度来评价企业服务质量的理念,建立了客户满意度评价系统结构,重点论述了该系统中的综合评判子系统;分析客户满意指标、级度综合评价法,提出了客户满意度的多层次模糊综合评价方法及其实现算法。服务质量衡量及客户满意度评价系统将有助于企业客观评价自身的服务质量,及时作出改进服务的决策。     

Frontline Cyborgs at Your Service: How Human Enhancement Technologies Affect Customer Experiences in Retail,Sales, and Service Settings

Human enhancement technology (HET) is advancing a host of industries, yet it remains limited in its retail, sales, and service applications. Soon, however, these technologies appear likely to have notable impacts on customer experiences. To address their potential influences on customer–employee interactions and the customer experience, this article leverages insights about the human–robot continuum to predict that a mid-range approach may be realistic for retail, sales, and service encounters (cf. pure robot range), at least in the near term. Furthermore, the authors detail the likelihood of both beneficial (elevated warmth and competence) and detrimental (dehumanization) mediating effects of HET on customer experiences. They also propose four moderators: information about the HET, gain/loss frames, persuasion ability, and strategic fit between HET and firm orientations. These insights suggest various implications and research directions pertaining to HET, as well as ways that these technologies might be used effectively in different industries.     

基于顾客价值构建零售业复合价值链

本文结合零售和零售业的活动特征,明确了零售业产出的是包含一组商品和服务、具有顾客价值的混合产品包。因此零售业价值链既不能简单套用波特的产业价值链,也不能完全照搬海斯凯特等人的服务-利润链,而是集成二者的复合价值链。本文对其进行了详细描述,并讨论了复合价值链对零售业的管理意义。