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Kruidvat’s headless rebuild keeps conversion at the core

Kruidvat’s headless rebuild keeps conversion at the core

by Ramon Helwegen | Jul 10, 2026 | Conversion

Kruidvat’s redesign shows how to modernise without sacrificing conversionWhen one of the Benelux’s largest drugstore chains rebuilds its webshop from scratch, other merchants should pay close attention. Kruidvat has launched a fundamentally new site built...
Kruidvat’s headless rebuild keeps conversion at the core

One bad checkout moment is enough to lose a customer forever

by Ramon Helwegen | Jun 2, 2025 | Conversion

Checkout failure is a permanent exit, not a recoverable bounceSCAYLE’s large-scale shopper research lands a number that every merchant should pin above their dashboard: eight out of ten shoppers who had a negative brand experience did not come back. That...
Stop asking for account creation before the confirmation page

Stop asking for account creation before the confirmation page

by Ramon Helwegen | Mar 25, 2025 | Online checkout

Sequencing is the silent conversion killer hiding in your post-checkout flowMost merchants pour their optimisation energy into the steps before the order button and then treat everything after it as administrative tidying. That is a costly blind spot. The confirmation...
Turn the checkout moment into a loyalty engine

Turn the checkout moment into a loyalty engine

by Ramon Helwegen | May 31, 2024 | Client experience

Turn the checkout moment into a loyalty engineMost merchants treat the transaction as a finish line. The smarter framing is to treat it as the starting gun. Whether in-store or online, the moment a customer completes a purchase is one of the highest-attention moments...
Cashierless supermarkets: how far along is frictionless POS checkout?

Cashierless supermarkets: how far along is frictionless POS checkout?

by Ramon Helwegen | Apr 14, 2023 | POS checkout

Frictionless POS checkout in retail: innovation under pressureCashierless stores have moved from Silicon Valley showcase to genuine operational question for European supermarket chains. Amazon Go showed what full checkout elimination could look like in 2018, and since...
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