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How people continue shopping with high street shops under lockdown
Over the past few weeks retail has gone through a massive change, as shops and their customers adapt to life under lockdown. While Google’s aggregated location data shows a 46% decline in footfall to UK grocers and pharmacies, people still want to shop in their local stores. But they are having to find new ways to do it.
Staying in contact with your customers via WhatsApp
While people are self-isolating many shops are making changes to keep running business ‘as usual’. It’s a rapidly changing situation for shops and communication with your customers plays an important role.
How you can support local businesses while staying isolated
The current outbreak is affecting all walks of life, and especially our high streets. While people remain indoors, independent retailers are moving fast to ensure their goods and services are still available to their customers.
New ePOS Partner: Vend now integrates with NearSt to drive footfall
We’re thrilled to announce that from today shops using Vend can take advantage of NearSt’s footfall-boosting technology to drive more online shoppers in-store.
DIY Shop attracts footfall from a young audience through Google
Over a four week period, we ran NearSt PLUS for Ilminster Home Hardware in Somerset by actively promoting their products with Google Local Inventory Ads to local shoppers searching nearby, see the results below!
How Pages of Hackney got more in-store customers with NearSt
Over a four week period, we ran NearSt PLUS for Pages of Hackney in North London by actively promoting their products with Google Local Inventory Ads to local shoppers searching nearby, see the results below!
Creating a great customer experience through packaging
When putting the customer experience at the top of your importance list — it’s imperative to realize the lasting effect your branding will have your customers.
How a Health Shop in Exmouth got their entire product catalogue online in one click!
For four weeks we ran NearSt PLUS for Mother Earth in Exmouth, actively promoting their products in Google Local Inventory Ads.
Recommended through supplier CLF, Lorraine joined NearSt because she did not have to invest any time or effort into getting set up.