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Smice · Retail

The advice you promise, checked on the shop floor.

Advice, merchandising, checkout, click & collect: in store, customers make up their minds in minutes. Smice checks that your sales and service standards are met, store by store.

Virginie Gallet, Project Manager at Smice
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I'm Virginie: I've been at Smice for 18 years, and today I help clients like Leroy Merlin grow. How about we talk about you?

Virginie GalletProject Manager

Retail

More than 80 clients trust us

Leroy MerlinLiebherrFreeSFRCavavinLa VigneryEric BompardSamsungChristian LouboutinJo Malone LondonEstée LauderClarinsInterfloraFranprix

Leroy Merlin · Free · SFR · Liebherr · Samsung · Eric Bompard · Cavavin · La Vignery · Christian Louboutin · Jo Malone London · Estée Lauder · Clarins · Interflora · Franprix

Your challenges

Where the sale is won, or lost.

01

Advice

Does the sales assistant approach the customer, or wait to be asked?

02

Merchandising

Layout, prices, POS material: compliance with the plan, store by store.

03

Omnichannel

Click & collect, returns, after-sales: the experience continues after the website.

04

Mixed network

Company-owned and franchised stores held to the same customer promise.

The moments of truth

The journey we measure, step by step.

01

Entrance

Welcome, waiting, first impression.

02

Approach

First contact, understanding the need.

03

Advice

Expertise, sales pitch, add-on sales.

04

Checkout

Speed, loyalty, thank-you.

05

Click & collect

Waiting time, pick-up, accuracy.

06

SAV

Listening, solution, follow-up.

The Smice method

Six steps to make your standards hold, applied to retail.

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01

Define

Smice Horizon · Smice Consulting

Your welcome, advice and sales standards turned into concrete behaviours, adapted to each store format.

02

Learn

Smice Pulse

Sales pitches, new products, selling behaviours: your sales assistants discover them on mobile before the store opens.

03

Anticipate

Smice Pulse · Smice Horizon

Window change, promotion, sales: the set-up is scheduled store by store, with photo proof.

04

Self-assess

Smice Pulse

Sales assistants declare what stops them approaching customers: footfall, stock-outs, tools.

05

Measure

Smice Horizon · Auditors · Mystery shoppers

Our Smicers test the welcome, advice and sale; our auditors check layout, prices and POS material.

06

Correct

Smice Horizon · Smice AI

Every gap opens an action for the store, followed up by the network coordinator until proof.

The Smice platform

Two platforms, the same data.

Those who steer the standards and those who bring them to life work on the same results.

Smice Horizon · For managers

Understand and steer the results

  • ✓Scores by store, by region and by format
  • ✓Company-owned and franchised stores held to the same promise
  • ✓Tracking promotions across the whole network
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Smice Pulse · For employees

Turning data into action

  • ✓New products and sales pitches pushed before opening
  • ✓Set-ups to carry out, with photo proof
  • ✓Corrective actions following visits
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In Smice Horizon

The indicators you will track.

Every visit, every audit and every self-assessment feeds a dashboard by standard, by site and by wave, comparable from one level of the network to another.

smiceHORIZONDashboard · RetailWave 24
Purchase journey score+4 pts vs previous wave77
68%Customer approached in under 2 min+5 pts
72%Personalised advice+3 pts
89%Compliant merchandising+2 pts
96%Compliant prices and labelling=
41%Add-on sale suggested+8 pts
Score by moment of the journey
Entrance85
Approach68
Advice72
Checkout88
Click & collect80
SAV74
80 and above70 to 79below 70

Example dashboard, illustrative data. Your indicators are configured from your own standards.

Our services

Measuring in the field, adapted to retail.

By our mystery shoppers

Mystery shopping

Our Smicers live the purchase journey according to your scenarios: welcome, understanding the need, advice, add-on sale, checkout.

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By our auditors

Operational audit

Our auditors check layout, prices, POS material and planogram compliance, with photos.

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By your teams

Internal audit

Your network coordinators and store managers audit merchandising, safety and mandatory notices on mobile.

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Self-diagnostic · 3 minutes

Where do your standards stand on the Smice cycle?

12 questions to place your network on the six steps of the cycle, find your weak link and get concrete recommendations.

Take the diagnostic →

Do your sales assistants keep the promise on the shop floor?

30 minutes with a retail expert to place your network on the cycle and identify the weak link.

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Other sectors

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