An Omni-Channel Vision of the Post Office. A journey describing how the Post Office aims to transform its business to become a modern, customer centric, omni-channel retailer.
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Evolution of ‘in-store' - can bricks & mortar and eCommerce work together effectively
1. Evolution of ‘in-store' - can bricks &
mortar and eCommerce work
together effectively?
Omni-Channel Retailing Summit
Spencer Chapman
Imtiaz Kaderbhoy
2. Post Office….a history lesson
• 1660 – General Post Office established
• 2013 – Post Office Ltd separates from Royal Mail
• Owned by Government
• 11,800 branches …….and growing
• 33,000 service points ……… and changing
• 2,500 ATMs
• Over 20M unique visits a week
• Is the largest post office network in Europe, and the largest retail branch network in
the UK…….
• …….handling more cash (almost GBP100bn pa) than any other business
• We settle more than 500m household bills pa and are the largest provider of foreign
currency in the UK
3. A moment of clarity
• We were product focused
• We were a channels business
• We were siloed
• We were overly focused on the network
• We were not customer centric
• We were not insight driven
• We did not have the infrastructure to achieve our vision
6. What we are doing about it…..
• Developing a single view of our customers
• Developing propositions based on insight and fact
• Creating a single Post Office customer account
• Launching and integrating our mobile channel
• Optimising our online customer journeys
• Aligning our branch experience / customer journey to our online and mobile channels
• Creating a targeted self service capability
• Launching a platform to integrate all of the above
• Replace our counter infrastructure
• Adopt test and learn to speed time to market
8. Evolution of ‘in-store' - can bricks &
mortar and eCommerce work
together effectively?
Omni-Channel Retailing Summit
Spencer Chapman
Imtiaz Kaderbhoy
Editor's Notes
Just over 12 months ago …..
We undertook a healthcheck on our customer / channel capability…..it was clear from that, I order to remain competitive ….. To be become a retailer of our own products…..to become financially independent…….we had to change ………. And there were some very tangile reasons for this . …[diagram]
We recognise the importance of Mcommerce for certain transaction types
More end to end journeys online (with standard look and feel and a few clicks as possible)
Start online – complete in branch …… start in branch complete online…….driven by our CDP
Self service to achieve different aims in different locations – Queue busting / upsell / cross sell – incentivisation strategy
CDP integrates all of this – build once and drive conformity via user interface and My Account function
Mention branch trials – appointment / wifi / queue management