To humanize its chain-store reputation, earlier this month Starbucks had its baristas throughout Europe start wearing nametags.
The chief burnisher of Wal-Mart Stores' reputation is leaving the company as its image is under new strains.
I go into bookstores based on their stores reputation.
A strong Black Friday can cement a store's reputation in shoppers' minds and strike fear into the competition.
Despite the dollar store's reputation for shoddy products, the mise-en-scène nevertheless suggests a kind of luxury, if only of quantity.
They have also tried to re-establish the store's reputation for low prices in France, which accounts for half its sales.
Sales clerks can increase sales by being extra friendly and helpful with the customers they already have, and then pleased customers can be expected to build the store's reputation.
The "desperate images" of the chaos, he said, "pushed us from a learning process into taking more aggressive action". It also provided a welcome boost to the store's reputation when Wal-Mart staff opened stores to hand out food and drugs and the retailer's relief trucks arrived in the flooded city before the US army.
By their own admission, the Myer meltdown was due to technical problems – tech experts, including big guns at IBM, worked around the clock to resurrect it and the store's reputation – and not an inability to cope with record sales volumes.
Rather than post big sale signs, which can mar a store's reputation, high-end chains are trying to unload $3,000 handbags and $800 shoes by periodically telling customers that certain items are on sale, even if the price tags say otherwise.
Keys to Success: HPI realizes that in order to be successful, certain factors, or "keys to success," must be followed through, and followed through well, such as hosting sales and promotions, having a good product selection to choose from, servicing products sold, a well defined knowledge of the industry, store location, reputation, and advertising.
