Digital efforts and frequent product changes including a mature consumer market are challenging factors for the DIY sector and forces DIY stores to think differently in order to be both efficient and profitable.
A task like product and price changes is extremely time consuming for a DIY store with far more products and larger sales areas compared to other stores. This combined with the fact that there is a long way from the back office to the shelf means that the information at the shelf edge therefore needs to be very accurate to avoid staff spending time away from the store to check information and answer customer related questions.