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Pyramid CDC - SMARTNet Customer Service Review
Term | Definition |
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Mindset | Customers’ attitudes and expectations about retailers, customer service and their shopping experiences. |
Mobile Apps | Software applications designed to run on small wireless devices, such as smartphones, tablets or smartwatches. Retailer Apps enable customers to purchase merchandise, view promotions and e-coupons, track loyalty or reward program activity and experience other retail content. |
Motivation | The reason someone behaves a certain way, and that influences the way consumers make purchase decisions. Motivation can be swayed by both external and internal signals. |
Multichannel Retailing | A retail model that offers customers the opportunity to interact with the multiple options in their ecosystem. These can or cannot be systemically connected to each other. |
Multiple Pricing | A pricing method that involves selling a group or set of items for a single price, such as three for $5.00. Customers often purchase larger quantities when multiple items are included in one price. |
Near Field Communication (NFC) | Contactless payments between two devices, like a terminal and a smartphone. The connection is made when the two devices are about 1.6 inches (4 cm) from each other. |
Net Profit | The difference between revenue and all expenses, including buying, producing and operations. This amount is the total that a company gains financially. |
Network | An interconnected group of people. |
Non Electronic Ink Tags | A type of anti-theft device that’s attached directly to clothing items. When they are removed without the proper tool, ink is released and can ruin the clothing. |
Odd Pricing | A psychological pricing strategy involving prices that end in odd numbers and are a little less than a round number, such as $19.99. |
Off-the-Clock Work | Work that an employee does without recording their time, and therefore without being paid. According to U.S. Federal Law, hourly employees are not allowed to work without being paid. |
Omnichannel Retailing | A retail model that integrates multiple channels of the retail ecosystem to create a seamless customer experience through the use of technology. |
On-hand (or Available Inventory) | The number of units within the total inventory that are available to sell. |
Open-end Questions | Questions that cannot be answered with yes or no, and that are used to get customers to provide details about what they want or need. Open-end questions begin with the words who, what, when, where, why and how. |
Operational Expenses | All of the overhead expenditures or indirect costs, incurred by a business. These include the physical space, mortgage or rent for anything you own or lease, such as a store, warehouse or office space, plus utilities, labor and staff expenses for maintaining and selling the products, advertising cost, insurance, taxes and other expenses. |
Out-of-Stock | The term used when there is not enough merchandise to satisfy a product demand. |
Package Switching | This fraudulent activity occurs when a thief takes a lower-priced item out of the package and replaces it with a higher-priced item. |
Part-time Work | Work that requires fewer hours than full-time position. The number of hours a part-time employee works may vary from week to week. Part-time employees may be eligible for some benefits, but not full benefits. |
Physical Inventory | The process of counting every piece of merchandise in the store, and creating a record of the store’s inventory to use it at the end of a reporting period. The goal is to compare this record to the expected inventory level in order to ensure that the store’s inventory systems are reliable. |
Periodic Inventory | Using a predetermined schedule, the total value of the inventory is counted and compared to the inventory value from the beginning of the period. |