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Table of Contents

  • What is retail management
  • Organized retail
  • Retail management process
  • Retail strategy
  • What is retail operations
    • Retail sourcing
    • Retail storage
    • Retail inventory management
    • Retail staffing
    • Retail customer service
  • Retail formats and methods
  • 10 trends shaping retail digitalization

Retail staffing: Putting the best people in the right positions

Retail staffing refers to the strategic hiring, scheduling, and placing of retail team members to maximize productivity, output, and revenues while minimizing cost, friction, and waste.

In considering the best approach to retail staffing for your company, there are two main factors to keep in mind.

 

Quality and quantity of staff

In properly staffing your organization, it’s important to think in terms of both quality and quantity.

With regard to quantity, you’ll need to have a sufficient number of individuals working within your various teams. Hire too few, and certain tasks won’t get done; hire too many, and you’ll be wasting valuable capital on redundant employees.

In fact, Wharton reports that understaffing and undertraining retail employees has played a major role in profit loss in recent years.

Having the right number of employees is important. But, it’s equally essential that your team is made up of highly-skilled individuals.

Moreover, you want to assign your various team members to tasks that best fit their skills, abilities, and qualifications. In turn, you’ll know that each of your employees is able to operate to their highest capacity — and in doing so, increase production for your company.

 

Contextual planning

Just as demand for certain products ebbs and flows over time, so too should your retail company’s approach to staffing.

Overall, the idea is to have sufficient staff in the right place, at the right time.

In terms of place, we may be referring to the strategic placement of team members within your physical store and its departments or to sufficient staffing of multiple locations (taking into consideration foot traffic to each).

Internally, contextual planning involves having sufficient warehouse and fulfillment staff on hand to handle fluctuations in demand.

Regarding timing, contextual planning involves creating flexible staffing schedules based on times of above or below-average productivity. This is to be done on both a micro level (i.e., providing adequate staffing for your busy hours of the day, or busy days of the week), and on a macro level (e.g., increasing staff numbers during the holiday rush).

 

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