Do you want to your career in retail? With this bundle course, you will study four in-depth courses that will give you the knowledge to start or progress your retail career and make you stand out from the crowd.
Retail Studies
OSC1271£1,199.00£1,124.00
or £36.62 /month*
Course code: OSC1271
*Pay monthly option available via Snap Finance on payment page in checkout
Course overview
- Develop your ability to manage operations and people in a retail environment.
- Develop your ability to manage operations and people in a retail environment.
- Learn the importance of customer service for any business.
- Gain the information needed to help you become confident in carrying out visual display merchandising.
During this Retail Studies course bundle, you will study four in-depth courses that will give you the knowledge to start or progress your retail career and make you stand out from the crowd.
All course materials will be delivered to you by post or via email, so it couldn’t be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors will help you every step of the way.
You can work at your own pace. Completed coursework can be delivered by post or via email, so handing in an assignment is simple.
- Why customer service is important today
- Putting customers first
- Customer service as value
- Customer service as experience
- How people experience your business
- Customer interactions as a chain
- How your organisation presents itself to potential customers
- Getting the environment right
- Providing confidence in your product or service
- Conclusions
- Easy access
- Helping to solve a customer's problems
- Providing expertise
- Value for money
- The ability to affect the purchase easily and quickly
- Getting feedback
- How you respond when things go wrong
- Treating customers with respect
- Customer service is not an add-on
- Seven aspects of how an organisation works
- Strategy
- Structure
- Systems
- Style
- Staff
- Skills
- Shared values
- Retail management is changing
- Losing touch with consumers
- Market segmentation
- Rational models
- The role of experience in shopping
- Finding out how customers feel
- Brands: meaning and values
- What is customer service?
- The importance of customer service
- The experience of being in your store
- Locating the right product
- Solving customers' problems
- The value chain
- What to stock and whom to sell it to
- Who to buy supplies from
- Inventory management
- Forecasting and early sales data
- Restocking and rapid supply
- Direct channels
- Access and convenience
- Standardisation
- Localisation
- Clustering
- Suppliers and manufacturer partnerships
- Point of purchase
- Distribution strategy
- A return to haggling?
- Advertising and promotion
- Social media and publicity
- Is cheapest best?
- Costs
- Price-matching
- Signposting
- Customer loyalty schemes
- Other pricing strategies
- Real value integrity
- Getting the right people
- Creating a customer-oriented culture
- Personality and motivation
- Managing performance
- Setting motivational SMART goals
- Expectations, value and brand
- Training and developing people
- Leading and managing people
- Role modelling
- Coaching
- Learning about people
- Customer service engagement
- Maintaining good customer service levels
- Customer service complaints
- Customer service evaluation and practices
- Customer service training
- Types of retail organisations
- Strategic aims of an organisation
- Thriving in a competitive market
- Displaying goods
- Enhancing consumer spend
- Managing internal and external conflict
- Types of administration activities
- Skills, competences and frameworks
- Key administrative duties and skills
- Key stages in selling a product
- Managing the sales process
- Cost of poor sales tactics
- Legal obligations in a retail operation
- Key legal terminology
- Legislation and organisational success
- Understand the concept of visual merchandising
- Role of visual merchandiser fits into the retail sector
- How it has an impact on the profitability of an organisation
- Terminology of visual merchandising
- How the terminology supports the process in the retail industry
- Understand key words such as visual concepts and seasonal themes
- Understand the four F’s: Fashion, fabric, fit and features
- Accessories
- Props
- Lightening
- Advertising tool
- Price ticketing
Awarding body
This course has been endorsed by the Quality License Scheme for its high-quality, non-regulated provisions and training programmes.
This course and/or training programme is not regulated by Ofqual and is not an accredited qualification. Your training provider will be able to advise you on any further recognition, for example, progression routes into further and/or higher education. For further information please visit the learner FAQs on the Quality Licence Scheme website.
The Quality License Scheme’s endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.
Extra information
This course is assessed by a series of written assignments which are marked by your tutor. No external examination is required.
You may start at any time and have 4 years (one year per course) to complete your studies. We suggest that the course will take no more than 400 hours to complete. This is more than enough time to give you flexibility and work at your own pace without the pressure of deadlines.
You will study this course through distance learning, which will enable you to learn when and where you want. You can study from home or at work, it is completely up to you. All your materials will be posted or emailed to you online, whichever you choose. You will also receive our award-winning tutor support by email, so help is only a click away!
At the end of this course successful learners will receive four Certificates of Achievement by The Quality License Scheme and Learner Unit Summaries (This lists details of all the units you have completed as part of your course).
Following the successful completion of this course, you will be able to start your career in the retail business. If after, you’re looking to enhance your business knowledge even further, take a look at the other business courses we offer.
FAQs
You do not need any previous knowledge to enrol onto this course.
You may start at any time and have 4 years to complete your studies. It is truly flexible and is designed to be adaptable around your lifestyle and other commitments.
- Dedicated personal tutor support
- Dedicated learner services
- Assignment marking and feedback
- FREE CV critique service
- FREE employability guide to help you impress future employers
- FREE XO Student Discounts membership
- *Comprehensive study guide
- *Open Study College pen and highlighter
- *Student notebook
* Not included with the online study option
You will send your work to your personal course tutor for them to mark and return to you.
It's not a problem. We offer a course replacement service, so if you get into trouble and your course pack is lost or damaged, our Learner Services Team can provide you with a new set of materials for a one-time additional fee.
That's not a problem. We want to make sure you're 100% confident about enrolling on the course and starting your study. So, just give our team of education specialists a call on 03300 563 100 and they'll do their best to help.
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