Walmart, the largest retailer in the United States, is applying new strategies to improve customer’s experience. The most visible one is that the company will be adding more employees to the doors. Employees who will be wearing yellow vests to make it easier for customers to spot them and ask for help. The retailer expects this move will enhance service quality and help reduce rates of shoplifting at the same time.
In a blog post this week, Walmart said these specially trained workers, known as customer hosts, will greet people as soon as they walk in. In addition to assist customers with returns to give a better first impression, so they can feel welcomed and motivated to stay.
Employees at the door will be also tasked with detecting potential shoplifters by checking receipts when they considered it appropriate. The company hopes this measure will help keep entrances safe and clean as well.
Walmart is set to provide a better first impression on its customers
The retailer will expand a successful pilot program it started last year in a handful of stores across the country. The customer hosts will be in most U.S. stores by mid-summer. Especially in those stores where the risk of shoplifting is higher. Aside from all the details Walmart is taking into account, it is studying data on safety, security and shopping losses to figure out the best ways to staff its entrances.
“Providing customers with an excellent first impression is part of Walmart’s broader strategy to ensure simpler, more convenient shopping. Focusing more on our greeters is one of a whole host of details we’re looking at – it just happens to be a very visible one”, Walmart’s post reads.
Given the key role of greeters in the company’s corporative culture, Walmart is confident that taking the program to a larger group of stores will contribute to a better customer experience.
How we're working to provide our customers with an excellent first impression: https://t.co/Khre7Obsdm
— Walmart Today (@WalmartToday) May 5, 2016
Improving service quality to face competitors
Other strategies used by the discounter to improve the shopping experience include increased wages for its hourly workers, cleaner stores and extra cash registers during busy times.
The company’s efforts to improve its service quality are a consequence of a tough competition against Arkansas-based Bentonville. While also including other retailers such as Amazon.com and the dollar stores located nationwide. Even though Walmart has obtained gains for a key revenue measure for six quarters in a row at its Walmart U.S. division, the increases have not been significant, according to a report by Fox News.
"Walmart is investing $250 billion over 10 years to purchase products that support American jobs." -Walmart COO at #MIGlobal
— Walmart Today (@WalmartToday) May 3, 2016
Source: Walmart Blog
My mom was told that she will no longer be a greeter after 20+ years of working at Walmart as a greeter…. She will be replaced by a loss prevention person and she will be placed in a now undecided new job in Walmart…. This will actually be getting rid of almost all the real greeters and replacing them with loss prevention people.
My mom has people say hello to her where ever she go’s…. At the mall, at the market’s or out shopping and little kids and people run up to her and hug her all the time at Walmart and else where like she is a celebrity ( It is funny to me but mom loves people and her job ) …. I think the corporate people at Walmart do not understand what a good greater represents to Walmart?… Mom has spent years getting to know a lot of the people that come to her store and she takes pride in getting to know the Walmart customer’s and helping them with there needs…. A few years back Walmart tried to get rid of there greeters and there theft sky rocketed and she was brought back as a greeter a few months later … I fail to see how a loss prevention person can do a greeters job and actually be a good greeter?… Walmart all ready has some great people that love there job … Why does Walmart not value the employees they have that are already doing a good job? … I understand trying to combat theft…. But, Walmart already started using security guard’s with no success. Now they think having a loss prevention person as a greeter talking to people coming in the door is going to help? … Why not just replace the guards at the doors going out of Walmart with ” customer hosts AKA loss prevention people ” If the guards do not help with theft? … I think that Walmart is missing the boat once again with good customer relations. Just my 2 cents!
My mom was told that she will no longer be a greeter after 20+ years of working at Walmart as a greeter…. She will be replaced by a loss prevention person and she will be placed in a now undecided new job in Walmart…. This will actually be getting rid of almost all the real greeters and replacing them with loss prevention people.
My mom has people say hello to her where ever she go’s…. At the mall, at the market’s or out shopping and little kids and people run up to her and hug her all the time at Walmart and else where like she is a celebrity ( It is funny to me but mom loves people and her job ) …. I think the corporate people at Walmart do not understand what a good greater represents to Walmart?… Mom has spent years getting to know a lot of the people that come to her store and she takes pride in getting to know the Walmart customer’s and helping them with there needs…. A few years back Walmart tried to get rid of there greeters and there theft sky rocketed and she was brought back as a greeter a few months later … I fail to see how a loss prevention person can do a greeters job and actually be a good greeter?… Walmart all ready has some great people that love there job … Why does Walmart not value the employees they have that are already doing a good job? … I understand trying to combat theft…. But, Walmart already started using security guard’s with no success. Now they think having a loss prevention person as a greeter talking to people coming in the door is going to help? … Why not just replace the guards at the doors going out of Walmart with ” customer hosts AKA loss prevention people ” If the guards do not help with theft? … I think that Walmart is missing the boat once again with good customer relations. Just my 2 cents!
My mom was told that she will no longer be a greeter after 20+ years of working at Walmart as a greeter…. She will be replaced by a loss prevention person and she will be placed in a now undecided new job in Walmart…. This will actually be getting rid of almost all the real greeters and replacing them with loss prevention people.
My mom has people say hello to her where ever she go’s…. At the mall, at the market’s or out shopping and little kids and people run up to her and hug her all the time at Walmart and else where like she is a celebrity ( It is funny to me but mom loves people and her job ) …. I think the corporate people at Walmart do not understand what a good greater represents to Walmart?… Mom has spent years getting to know a lot of the people that come to her store and she takes pride in getting to know the Walmart customer’s and helping them with there needs…. A few years back Walmart tried to get rid of there greeters and there theft sky rocketed and she was brought back as a greeter a few months later … I fail to see how a loss prevention person can do a greeters job and actually be a good greeter?… Walmart all ready has some great people that love there job … Why does Walmart not value the employees they have that are already doing a good job? … I understand trying to combat theft…. But, Walmart already started using security guard’s with no success. Now they think having a loss prevention person as a greeter talking to people coming in the door is going to help? … Why not just replace the guards at the doors going out of Walmart with ” customer hosts AKA loss prevention people ” If the guards do not help with theft? … I think that Walmart is missing the boat once again with good customer relations. Just my 2 cents!
My mom was told that she will no longer be a greeter after 20+ years of working at Walmart as a greeter…. She will be replaced by a loss prevention person and she will be placed in a now undecided new job in Walmart…. This will actually be getting rid of almost all the real greeters and replacing them with loss prevention people.
My mom has people say hello to her where ever she go’s…. At the mall, at the market’s or out shopping and little kids and people run up to her and hug her all the time at Walmart and else where like she is a celebrity ( It is funny to me but mom loves people and her job ) …. I think the corporate people at Walmart do not understand what a good greater represents to Walmart?… Mom has spent years getting to know a lot of the people that come to her store and she takes pride in getting to know the Walmart customer’s and helping them with there needs…. A few years back Walmart tried to get rid of there greeters and there theft sky rocketed and she was brought back as a greeter a few months later … I fail to see how a loss prevention person can do a greeters job and actually be a good greeter?… Walmart all ready has some great people that love there job … Why does Walmart not value the employees they have that are already doing a good job? … I understand trying to combat theft…. But, Walmart already started using security guard’s with no success. Now they think having a loss prevention person as a greeter talking to people coming in the door is going to help? … Why not just replace the guards at the doors going out of Walmart with ” customer hosts AKA loss prevention people ” If the guards do not help with theft? … I think that Walmart is missing the boat once again with good customer relations. Just my 2 cents!
My mom was told that she will no longer be a greeter after 20+ years of working at Walmart as a greeter…. She will be replaced by a loss prevention person and she will be placed in a now undecided new job in Walmart…. This will actually be getting rid of almost all the real greeters and replacing them with loss prevention people.
My mom has people say hello to her where ever she go’s…. At the mall, at the market’s or out shopping and little kids and people run up to her and hug her all the time at Walmart and else where like she is a celebrity ( It is funny to me but mom loves people and her job ) …. I think the corporate people at Walmart do not understand what a good greater represents to Walmart?… Mom has spent years getting to know a lot of the people that come to her store and she takes pride in getting to know the Walmart customer’s and helping them with there needs…. A few years back Walmart tried to get rid of there greeters and there theft sky rocketed and she was brought back as a greeter a few months later … I fail to see how a loss prevention person can do a greeters job and actually be a good greeter?… Walmart all ready has some great people that love there job … Why does Walmart not value the employees they have that are already doing a good job? … I understand trying to combat theft…. But, Walmart already started using security guard’s with no success. Now they think having a loss prevention person as a greeter talking to people coming in the door is going to help? … Why not just replace the guards at the doors going out of Walmart with ” customer hosts AKA loss prevention people ” If the guards do not help with theft? … I think that Walmart is missing the boat once again with good customer relations. Just my 2 cents!
don’t put these people at the doors. put them checking people out. i’m so tired of having to wait in long lines to get checked out at Walmart. the last thing I need is to see a bunch of employees standing around while having to wait behind four people with maxed out buggies in the checkout line.