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Customer Experience in Fashion Retailing: Merging Theory and Practice

Paperback by Alexander, Bethan (London College of Fashion)

Customer Experience in Fashion Retailing: Merging Theory and Practice

£37.99

ISBN:
9781032453002
Publication Date:
20 Jun 2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
302 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 6 - 11 Oct 2025
Customer Experience in Fashion Retailing: Merging Theory and Practice

Description

This text provides a holistic, integrated and in-depth perspective on the growing field of customer experience (CX), in a fashion context. Merging three core perspectives - academic, creative agency and retailer - the book takes a chronological approach to tracing the evolution of customer experience from the physical store, to omnichannel through channel convergence to consider the future of fashion retailing and customer experience. Beginning with the theoretical perspective, customer experience evolution in a fashion retail context is traced, considering the definition of customer experience, physical retail, the digitalisation of customer experience, omni-channel retail, in-store technologies and envisioning future retail CX. The retail creative agency perspective looks at how to locate and design customer experience journeys, designing harmonised CX across retail brand environments online and offline, responsible retailing and taking a human-centric approach to create visceral, wellbeing-based experiences. Finally, the retailer perspective explores real-life case studies of great customer experience from international brands, including Zara, Nike, Ecoalf, To Summer and Anya Hindmarch. Pedagogical features to aid understanding are built in throughout, including chapter objectives and reflective questions. Comprehensive and unique in its approach, Customer Experience in Fashion Retailing is recommended reading for students studying Fashion Retail Management, Customer Experience, Retail Design and Visual Merchandising, Fashion Psychology and Fashion Marketing.

Contents

Part 1: Theoretical perspectives on retail customer experience. Chapter 1: Customer experience evolution in a fashion retail context: From mono- to omnichannel. Chapter 2: (Re)envisioned future retail customer experience. Part 2: Practitioner perspectives on retail customer experience. Chapter 3: Placing people at the heart of customer experience journeys. Chapter 4: Designing harmonised customer experiences for brand environments. Chapter 5: Creating visceral and human-centric customer experiences. Part 3: Retailer perspective on retail customer experience: Global case studies showcasing customer experience excellence. Chapter 6: Phygital customer experiences. Chapter 7: Sustainable customer experiences. Chapter 8: Visceral customer experiences.

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