Resources
Free tools, guides and conversations to help corporate teams see their work the way stores do.
Free Guide
What store managers need you to know—before you launch another thing in stores.
We've spent years listening to store managers and district leaders. This is what they consistently tell us, but rarely get the chance to tell you.
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Assessment
Retail Engagement Gap Audit
Benchmark four critical risk signals across your frontline employee experience.
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Email Course
5 Days to Better Retail Engagement
Quick, actionable insights for HR & Ops leaders.
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Podcast
Dear Corporate… Love Stores
Your unvarnished window into the store realities.
Articles
Published writing
Pieces Bekki has written for retail publications and for her Store-Centric Thinking newsletter on LinkedIn.
Retail Business Review
Real Retail Engagement Starts in Stores, Not Comms Channels
Store teams judge their employer by what happens on an ordinary shift: how their manager shows up, how scheduling and callouts are handled, and whether the last new tool actually helped. Those everyday signals shape engagement more than any communications campaign. Before launching something new, check what stores are already experiencing.
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Human Doings / Human Beings
When Comms Is Maslow's Hammer, Culture Becomes a Nail
When engagement scores drop, the usual response is another campaign or another tool. In this guest piece, Bekki explains why low scores usually point to what people experience day to day, and how to check every brand promise against what managers, operations and communications actually deliver.
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LinkedIn
From Brand Strategy to Store Reality: Building Bridges in Retail
How a brand strategist ended up working on one of retail's biggest challenges. Bekki shares what hundreds of hours with store leaders taught her about why well-meant corporate initiatives stall on the sales floor, and why the gap between corporate and stores is structural, never anyone's fault.
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LinkedIn
Dear Corporate… Love, Stores: What Retail Executives Need to Hear, but Rarely Do
Why Bekki and store leader Matthew Copeland started a podcast. It's the honest conversation corporate and stores need to have, about the patterns holding both sides back and what actually works for everyone.
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LinkedIn
The Biggest Opportunity for Retail in 2025
Most engagement initiatives are designed for office life, while stores run on minutes, callouts and constant interruption. Three shifts for retail leaders: start with store realities, weave engagement into existing operations, and make today's work better before selling tomorrow's.
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LinkedIn
Kind Capitalism: It Pays to Care (Literally)
Can you be a capitalist and put your employees first? It depends on how far ahead you're looking. The leaders building for the long term treat their people as their best advantage, and compassion as part of the formula for success.
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