Goodwill of Southeastern Wisconsin

At 51.2% of the total revenue and support for Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin and Metropolitan Chicago, retail services are an essential part of sustaining the organization’s operation. Keenly focused on supporting essential services, leaders in the Goodwill organization sought to better understand their in-store traffic and identify additional sales opportunities in retail locations. The organization never utilized traffic counting services and was unfamiliar with leveraging such data as a means of optimizing operations and improving store performance.

Goodwill engaged in an eight-store pilot of ShopperTrak’s perimeter analytics solution in June of 2017. The pilot included regular training calls, which helped retail staff understand how to use ShopperTrak’s reporting platform, translate data and staff appropriately.

ShopperTrak’s perimeter analytics solution provides visibility into when the best opportunities for sales occur and how well a retailer performs during these critical times. By integrating traffic, sales and labor data, retailers can better understand how effectively they are converting customers and whether they have the labor coverage needed for success.

With the goal of providing accurate traffic counts, ShopperTrak’s solution enabled Goodwill leaders to understand peak hours on a store-by-store basis. Vendor recommendations based on such data allowed Goodwill of Southeastern Wisconsin to:

• More effectively allocate their labor
• Assign associate tasks in relation traffic patterns

As a result, conversion rates increased an average of three percent across all eight stores.

Following the impressive results, Goodwill elected to roll out ShopperTrak’s perimeter counting solution across all 67 retail stores.

Additionally, by utilizing their new traffic data, Goodwill recognized that their associates played a larger role in driving store sales than originally thought. This is particularly meaningful because the Goodwill store model is built around a more independent shopper, one who braves the racks to find their desired items; however, ShopperTrak insights revealed that there was a significant opportunity for associates to engage with shoppers and increase key metrics (e.g. sales, ATS, conversion).

Based on these findings, Goodwill is planning to alter staffing levels during peak hours in order to maximize customer engagement and provide a more enhanced instore experience. Traffic data will also be used to identify when such associates should be scheduled.

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