Background
The world of retail is constantly evolving and at Waitrose we’re working to make sure we’re always at the forefront of market-leading innovation and new technologies that will shape the shopping experience of the future. Waitrose Retail innovation is focused on driving the effectiveness and efficiency of shop operations.
Waitrose are looking for companies or individuals that are able to provide them with direction, thoughts or solutions within this space.
Challenge
Waitrose are looking at options to deliver a step-change in in-store productivity, to remove tasks from shops, whilst maintaining or improving the customer experience and deliver customer service innovations that empower employees to provide a better service.
This could be within the Stock Management, Payment, eCommerce, Food Service and Hospitality or Audit and Compliance operation within shops.
Any proposal is required to include details on the task that would be removed from the shop operation, and examples on the impact on customer experience, including where these solutions have been successful within the wider market.
What's in it for you?
If successful, Waitrose and Partners are keen to work with companies to provide a test and learn scenario within their stores, to prove they are able to influence the KPIs in the capability your solution impacts. From this further potential and scalability would be reviewed.
If you have or are developing solutions, or if you have expertise in this area and would like to get in front of Waitrose and Partners, please click "Apply" to submit your solution/expertise to the Network.