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Turnpike's wearable platform empowers employees to improve productivity, increase revenue, and cut costs, all in real-time.
6
Fitting rooms
Expertise areas
13
8
Personal shopping
3
Self-checkout
2
Staffed-checkout
14
IoT alerts
9
Personal help
12
Recycling aid
7
Self-scanning
11
Customer help
1
Schedule
15
Emergency Alerts
16
No-one in sight
4
Stock/Back of Store
10
Service center
5
Pre-order
1
Schedule
2
Staffed-checkout
3
Self-checkout
4
Stock/Back of store
5
Pre-order
6
Fitting rooms
7
Self-scanning
8
Personal shopping
9
Personal help
10
Service center
11
Customer help
12
Recycling aid
13
Expertise areas
14
IoT alerts
15
Emergency alerts
16
No-one in sight
1. Schedule
Problem
Retail staff don’t know their schedule and shifts during their work day by heart. A lot of time is spent being in the know with constant changes during the day-time that could be more productively spent, for example assisting customers.
Solution
Manger portal
Staff Watch
Result
Save up till 45 minutes per day for manager scheduling
Save up to 30 minutes per day per frontline employee.
30.000 $ /year per employee in extra sales
Dramatic decreases in stress-levels for staff always being in the know
2. Staffed-Checkout
Problem
When the line grows people get frustrated and angry, sometimes even leave the items they had decided to buy and exit the store with a bad feeling. Lines also create stress for the clerks. The speaker system is often used to call for “someone” which is annoying, ineffective, and confusing for the staff. It doesn’t offer any response to waiting customers.
Solution
Customer Button / screen
Staff Watch
Result
Fast, discreet, and highly effective. Less stress for the staff. Response time can easily be cut in half.
3. Self-Checkout
Problem
On average approximately 5% of self-checkout customers need help. When things go wrong, or questions need answers customers get embarrassed and frustrated not having quick personal help.
Solution
Customer Button / screen
Staff Watch
Result
Immediate help when needed to solve issues and make the experience smoother helps build store loyalty. A positive side effect is the efficient use of the staff to be called in only when needed.
4. Stock/Back of Store
Problem
Hard to get hold of the right person to assist when customers or colleagues need items from the stock/back of the store or when a delivery needs to be handled.
Solution
Staff Watch
Staff Watch
Result
A highly effective way to get hold of the right person to increase service levels/sales and product logistics in the store. No need to use a speaker system or spend time searching.
5. Pre-Order
Problem
Highly inefficient for a store to constantly staff areas requiring random occupancy. Customers shopping online are used to quick and smooth experiences. Frustration is quickly built up when there is no one to turn to for pre-order pickup, post or curbside deliveries.
Solution
Customer Button / screen
Staff Watch
Result
The right person will be notified to take immediate action and help, significantly cutting down waiting time keeping the customer happy.
6. Fitting rooms
Problem
When there’s no one to help a customer in need of advice, different sizes or colors, they get frustrated and the store loses significant conversion and upsell opportunities.
Solution
Customer Button / screen
Staff Watch
Result
Shoppers who receive help in fitting rooms are 300% more likely to purchase.
Improved experience leads to a dramatic increase in customer satisfaction and sales.
7. Self-Scanning
Problem
Initiatives to improve customers’ shopping experience are often presented at the entrance where customers are encouraged to use new technology like self-scanners. Some people immediately understand everything, others feel left in the dark and shy away from using the solutions that create stickiness and build loyalty.
Solution
Customer Button / screen
Staff Watch
Result
Highly effective way to give great, quick service without having to constantly staff the area. The right person will be notified to support, resulting in decreased negative friction and insteadincreased customer satisfaction and store loyalty.
8. Personal shopping
Problem
The first impression of a personal shopping experience happens at the entrance of the store. Waiting or not knowing who to turn to makes it impersonal and creates frustration and insecurity, affecting the experience and the number of purchased items.
Solution
Customer Button / screen
Staff Watch
Result
The right staff will be notified immediately, improving the personal experience, and resulting in a dramatic increase in sales.
9. Personal help
Problem
Frustration is quickly created when a customer needs help and there’s no one to be found. When there are screens or buttons to call for help, the time to get the right person over is often too long.
Solution
Customer Button / screen
Staff Watch
Result
The right staff will be notified immediately, improving the personal experience, and increasing sales dramatically.
10. Service Center
Problem
Service desks should have staff on their toes WHEN help is needed. Frustration is quickly created around service centers since some cases are quickly solved and others are very time-consuming.
Solution
Staff Watch
Staff Watch
Result
The right person will be notified by a colleague to offer support, resulting in decreased negative friction and instead increased customer satisfaction and store loyalty.
11. Customer Help
Problem
Frustration is quickly built up when there is no one to turn to for help or inspiration
Solution
Customer Button / screen
Staff Watch
Result
The right staff will be notified immediately, improving the personal experience, and resulting in a dramatic increase in sales.
12. Recycling Aid
Problem
As the recycling trend is going up and is often a reason for visiting a specific store, service levels at the recycling area are becoming increasingly important. Recycling areas should have staff on their toes WHEN help is needed. Frustration is quickly created around recycling when machines are full, and errors occur.
Solution
Customer Button / screen
Staff Watch
Result
The right person will be notified by a colleague to offer support, resulting in decreased negative friction and instead increased customer satisfaction and store loyalty.
13. Expertise Areas
Problem
Some areas require qualified personal help and guidance to lead to a purchase - be it expensive furniture like beds or tailor-made kitchens. Not getting qualified help when needed creates frustration and dramatic loss of purchase potential for the store.
Solution
Customer Button / screen
Staff Watch
Result
Improved experience leads to a dramatic increase in customer satisfaction and sales. Shoppers who receive help in designated areas of premium products are three times more likely to purchase.
14. IoT Alerts
Problem
The cost for a store when fridges, recycling machines etc suddenly goes out of order can be enormous.
Solution
IoT sensor
Staff Watch
Result
Important immediate alerts to the right person solves problems before they become big.
15. Emergency Alerts
Problem
It’s hard to discreetly get everyone’s attention when an emergency occurs. It can be suspected shoplifters, fire alarms, disturbing/drunk people entering, or parents who lose track of their kids.
Solution
Manger portal
Staff Watch
Result
All relevant staff (and only staff) are immediately informed and literally “all hands on deck” to solve the problem. It can be minor issues or a matter of life and death. Increased security for the staff means a less stressful work situation.
16. No-one in sight
Problem
There’s no one to help the customer and they are getting frustrated. The store is losing significant sales.
Solution
IoT sensor
Staff Watch
Result
The right person will be notified to take immediate action. Increased satisfaction and increased sales, as well as building store loyalty, are immediate positive effects.
The core value creation
Real-Time Actions
Increase Conversion & Customer Satisfaction
Nudging
Customer Centricity & Staff Satisfaction
Business Intelligence
Resource Planning & Store Optimization
Turnpike’s smartwatch communication platform makes managing your staff simple. Shift schedules, messages, alerts, service requests and co-worker notifications are all available on every employee’s wrist and updated in real time.
Provide your staff with the tools they need to operate more efficiently, giving them more time to focus on engagement.
Prevent customer churn
Increase upsell opportunities
Maximize staff productivity
Empower employee autonomy
Your customers
Seamless customer service
Give customers exactly what they need, when they need it. And when they least expect it, delight them.
Instantly serve customer requests
Preemptively address growing lines
Enable discreet team communication
Never disrupt the consumer experience
Check out Turnpike in Action.
ICA
Grocery
HM Home
Fashion and home design
Coop
Grocery
Increase sales and customer satisfaction
Cloud-based and built to scale, Turnpike’s platform helps industry-leading companies in a number of vertical markets manage their in-store operations more effectively.
Grocery
Loyalty drives the grocery industry. With Turnpike, grocery staff can instantly react to customer needs, even when they can’t see them. Happier customers return more often.