Retail

Your stores already know what the dashboard doesn't

Arist is changing the way retail leadership engages with store-based employees. Shift your planning from assumption-based decisions to field-informed action.

You invested in the field and can't tell what landed

Retail leadership decides on a forecast, a dashboard and a district manager's summary. The people who watch the customer experience break — the cashier, the floor lead, the store manager — see the cause months before it reaches a report, and nobody has been able to ask all of them at once. So the next quarter gets spent guessing, and the guess is expensive.

How it works

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Start from the question you can't currently answer. Arist calls or messages every store associate, shift lead, store manager and district manager in their own language, on their own shift. No app, no login, no scheduled window.

  2. 02

    Recommend

    Findings come back ranked by cost, each one traceable to what people actually said and to the operational data you already hold. Not a deck of themes: a short list of causes with owners attached.

  3. 03

    Fix

    The fix goes out to the people it affects, in the channels they already use. Then the same question gets asked again, to see whether the number moved.

What this replaces

TodayWith Arist
Expensive consultants to diagnose itInterviews as many people, in any language, as needed
Disconnected tools to measure itConnects to the CRM, HRIS and systems of record you already run
Extra headcount to deliver the fixOrchestrates the fix in Teams, Slack and SMS
Six to nine months72 hours to a diagnosis
Three budgetsOne line item
2.6×activation rate
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We're meeting colleagues where they work. It's more accessible, more relevant, and more human.
Brian WallaceChief Talent Officer, Wintrust

Real questions retail leaders have asked us

  • Product feedback

    "Why isn't our flagship product line selling at the level it should, and what would actually change that?" — what the floor hears about your products before the sales data shows it.

  • Customer experience

    "Where do our store teams struggle with delivering great CX day to day? Where is the opportunity we're missing?" — where the in-store experience breaks, from the people who watch it daily.

  • Retail operations

    "We invested in tools for the field. Why aren't stores actually using them?" — what's blocking rollout on the floor, before you spend another quarter guessing.

Retail

Pick your hardest retail question

Bring the one you can't currently answer. We'll diagnose it and start fixing it in 72 hours.