A Store Locator is a tool to locate a physical outlet. It can be offered on a website (conventional or mobile) or a mobile application.
The Store Locator is generally used to identify the nearest store with a GPS location or entering a ZIP code or address.
6 tips for a good store locator:
- Provide the closest store: this is the main goal of a store locator. It has to give to the user a list of the nearest stores to his position
- Provide an itinerary toward the store: this itinerary will help the shopper to easily reach the point of sale. If the customer is already satisfy of retailer’s services before entering the store, this is already a good starting point
- Provide reliable and complete information on the point of sale: retailers have to provide their addresses but also their phone numbers, opening hours, product catalogue, etc. Of course, to be relevant, all of them have to be complete and correct
- SEO compliant: more and more customers use Google to search for a store. The principal objective of retailers is to be on the top results on Google. For that, they have to SEO optimized the page of their store locator. Some techniques are: a dedicated URL, local content and specific to each store.
- Automatic detection of the user’s position: this detection will automatically suggest to users the closest stores. This is a facility that a lot of users are looking for.
- Mobile-friendly interface: we cannot forget to mention that store locators have to be mobile-optimized in order to follow customers in all their moves and in their daily lives.
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