Target Audience

Primary Target Audience: employees of specialty grocery stores

Secondary Target Audience: specialty grocery stores and their management

Influencers: customers of the store

Problems Employees Face

  • Lack of product information on labels and store printed cards
  • Lack of cross-department product knowledge
  • Time consuming to learn about your own department’s products, especially if you are new
  • Being the only one on the floor to help customers while passing through another department
  • Have to hunt down an employee of another department or store manager when you have a question you cannot answer
  • Nowhere to find or look up product information, register point of sale system only shows department and price

Problems the Store/Management Faces

  • Customer complaints of unhelpful and ill-informed staff
  • Wasted time/hours on tracking down department members and/or management to answer product questions
  • Expensive to train new employees on thousands of products
  • Expensive to keep all employees up to date on new products and food trends

Problems Customers Face

  • Being left in the aisle for an undetermined amount of time waiting for a department specialist
  • Having employees tell you they don’t know and the person who knows isn’t working right now
  • Frustration with not being able to find a product that meets your special dietary needs

Use Cases & User Flows

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