Tired of Training Struggles? Use This Solution to Boost Sales Associate Efficiency

By Cathy Weldon | February 21, 2020

In a perfect world, every shelf in your store would be merchandised flawlessly. Your team of sales associates would spend their workday interacting with customers and selling products.

But, in today’s fast-paced retail climate, chances are that your team is losing several hours a day on unnecessary tasks. Store associates are fixing mistakes on resets and deciphering hard-to-read, static, or inaccurate planograms.

And that means less time spent on what they do best: serving customers.

With over 20 years of innovating technology to help retailers merchandise better, One Door understands the challenges of in-store merchandising execution.

We know how important it is to give store associates intuitive tools, like visual merchandising software, to get the job done. Our platform makes visual merchandising rock stars out of your store associates. Here’s how:

We made cloud-based software for store execution.

How many hours a week do your store teams spend printing out PDFs emailed by HQ?

Can you count the mistakes made because someone had the wrong planogram for their store?

Are associates often interrupted during a reset? They constantly lose their place on the planogram they’re working on.

One Door is a cloud-based visual merchandising platform that store associates can access on tablets.

You no longer have to print thousands of pages of directions and plans. You don’t have to run between the office and the floor with cumbersome binders.

You can stop using paper planograms because One Door is cloud-based.

Keep all your planograms and visual merchandising directives all in one digital place.

We simplified visual merchandising.

Training new employees is a struggle for retailer operations managers, especially when you take into account seasonal workforce needs and turnover rates.

One Door’s Store Assistant is a powerful tool that gets employees up to speed fast. The intuitive interface guides store associates through every step of their visual merchandising work and keeps everyone on track with task management capabilities.

For example, if a new employee is unfamiliar with an endcap display, they can pull up that planogram on the store tablet and see the estimated time required for the task as well as labor assignments.

Because One Door maintains accurate retail floorplans with the unique layout design of every store, it gives associates precise planograms that highlight exactly where products need to be set. One Door eliminates guesswork and leads to a more accurate and efficient execution of visual merchandising tasks.

One Door is a collaborative (and rewarding) visual merchandising platform.

The final step in visual merchandising execution is marking compliance and showing the job is complete. One Door offers features like:

  • A device camera that eliminates the extra step of uploading images from an external camera, and…
  • Robust reporting tools for associates to log issues, order missing items, or respond to surveys from HQ

One Door takes the drudgery out of compliance by making it a collaborative effort between stores, HQ, and third-party vendors.

Having a direct line of communication with the visual merchandising team at HQ lets store associates know that their work matters and that they’re part of the team.

The best visual merchandising plans don’t mean anything if they’re not executed properly in stores. You invest in your workforce, so it only makes sense to invest in giving them the best tools for the job.

One Door empowers store associates to perform flawless resets every time, so they can get out on the floor with the customers.

Are you ready to turn your store associates into merchandising rock stars? Click here to learn more about One Door.