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Diploma Course in Retail Management (Udemy.com)

Enhance your skills (Operations/Sales/VM/HR/SCM) in the ever growing Retail industry - Cover latest trends, casestudies

Created by: Aakaro Consulting

Last updated July 2026

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What you will learn

  • Get Diploma in Retail Management
  • Explain different retail formats
  • Know about key players
  • Different factors affecting Pricing
  • Principles of Merchandising
  • Improve Sales and Service of your business
  • Improve by Digital Marketing
  • Know popular tips and tricks in Visual Merchandising
  • Improve your understanding of Retail KPIs
  • People management
  • Understand analytics
  • Design thinking and creativity for Innovations
  • Performance Management
  • Process improvement
  • Common trends in technology
  • Improving Leadership skills
  • Business Analysis
  • Common Legal terminologies

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Course Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Are you someone who wants to join the retail industry?

Are you someone who wants to be a retail entrepreneur?

Or anyone who wants to know more about this interesting industry?


If the answer to all these questions is a yes, then you’ve landed on the right place


Retail is an ever-growing industry. Retail management saves time and ensures the customers easily locate their desired merchandise and return home satisfied. An effective management avoids unnecessary chaos at the store and rather increase the sales of the store. This course is suitable for all - Operation, Sales, VM, HR, Logistics if you want to enter in Retail domain.


Section 1: Retail Industry Overview

1. Meaning

  • Explain the meaning and importance of Retail

  • Differentiate between Customer and Consumer

2. Story of Retail

  • Describe the evolution of Retail

  • Differentiate between Organised and Unorganised Retail

  • Explain the key characteristics of Organised Retail

  • Explain the key characteristics of Unorganised Retail

3. Common Formats

  • Describe the common formats in Retail industry

4. Key Players

  • List the key players

5. 6 Ps of Retail

  • Explain the meaning and importance of 6Ps of Retail

6. Functions/Departments in Retail

  • Explain the key functions/departments in retail.

7. Career opportunities in Retail industry

  • List the key profiles in the retail industry

  • Explain the key skills required to perform these roles


Section 2: Pricing

1. Pricing Methods

  • Explain the meaning and importance of various pricing methods

2. Price elasticity

  • Describe the meaning of price elasticity of demand

  • Explain the significance of Price elasticity

  • Calculate the price elasticity

3. Survey - Willingness to pay

  • Take feedback on price worth

  • Explain the preferred Price points


Section 3: Supply Chain Management

1. Is Supply Chain that simple?

  • Explain that supply chain in the practical situation can be complicated

  • Understand the practical scenario of a complicated supply chain


Section 4: Buying and Merchandising

1. Principles of Merchandising

  • Explain the various principles to consider in merchandising


Section 5: Barcodes

1. Meaning

  • Explain the meaning and importance of Barcodes

2. Common types

  • Explain the common types of Barcodes

3. What is GTIN

  • Illustrate the reason behind forming GTIN

  • Explain the meaning and importance of GTIN

  • Explain common standards in GTIN

4. How to generate Barcodes

  • Generate barcodes for the products


Section 6: Sales and Service Excellence

1. Touchpoints

  • Explain the meaning of touchpoints

  • Describe the key categories of Touchpoints

  • List the various touchpoints

2. Moment of Truth

  • Describe the meaning of Moment of Truth

  • Explain the importance of knowing the Moment of Truth

  • Describe the key categories of Moment of Truths

3. GUEST Model

  • Explain the GUEST model of Sales and Service Excellence

  • Describe the stages in the GUEST model

4. Gain Attention

  • Prepare to gain the attention of the customers

  • Describe the types of greeting approaches

  • Apply the appropriate greeting approach to gain attention

  • Apply tactics to gain the attention of the customers

5. Understand Needs

  • Inculcate the importance of understanding the correct customer needs

  • Avoid biases in understanding needs

  • Explain the techniques of getting the maximum information from the customers

  • Differentiate between open-ended and closed-ended questions

  • Ask appropriate questions

6. Explain about the Product/Service

  • Explain the FABing technique to get the maximum sales

  • Apply the FABing technique

  • Explain the Do's and Don'ts in product/service presentation

7. Suggest and Objection Handling

  • Suggest other products/services

  • Explain the meaning and importance of cross-selling and up-selling

  • Apply cross-selling and up-selling to boost sales

  • Explain key rules of upselling

  • Explain feel-felt-found strategy in objection handling

  • Describe do's and don't of objection handling

  • Handle the objections of the customers

8. Thank you

  • Leave a good impression on the customers

  • Differentiate between Customer Service and Customer Experience

  • Explain the preferred style between Customer Service and Customer Experience


Section 7: Digital Marketing

1. Introduction

  • Explain the meaning of Digital Marketing

  • Differentiate between Digital marketing and Traditional marketing

  • Explain why Digital marketing is better than Traditional marketing

  • List the key modules

2. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Introduction

  • Explain the meaning of Search Engine

  • List various Search Engines

  • Explain the meaning and importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

  • List the pros and cons of SEO

  • Explain the requirements for Website

  • Describe web hosting, domain name and website builder

3. How Search Engine works

  • Explain how Search Engine works

4. What a website is made of!

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Instructor Details

Aakaro Consulting

Aakaro Consulting is a management consulting and advisory firm focused on helping organizations improve business performance, strengthen operational effectiveness, and build future-ready capabilities.

Our work spans strategy, operations, leadership, human capital, supply chain, customer experience, business analytics, process improvement, and digital transformation. We work with organizations facing real business challenges—improving productivity, scaling operations, enhancing customer experience, strengthening workforce capability, optimizing supply chains, and driving sustainable growth.

Enterprise Advisory Experience Over the years, we have supported organizations ranging from startups and growth-stage companies to multinational enterprises across diverse industries. Our experience includes engagements with prominent organizations such as Google, United Nations, Uber, HSBC, ITC, PepsiCo, Shell, Hero MotoCorp, Saint-Gobain, JLL, Cognizant, Accenture, Ford, Gap, Nautica, Gant, Thomas Cook, Princeton Review, Aeropostale, and many others.

The Knowledge-Transfer Platform Our learning programs are built from the same business frameworks, methodologies, and practical insights used in consulting engagements. Rather than focusing purely on bookish theory, we emphasize real-world application, decision-making, business analysis, operational improvement, and strategic thinking.

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Reviews

4.3

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By Komal Singh on 5/30/2026

Taking this course in Retail Management has been a valuable learning experience for me. It helped me understand how retail stores actually operate beyond just sales, including store layout, customer behavior, inventory management, and visual merchandising. Through the exercises, I realized how small changes in display, product placement, and store cleanliness can directly impact customer experience and sales performance. It also improved my thinking towards managing stores in a more structured and customer-focused way.

By Derek E. Martin on 7/8/2025

As an overview of retail management, it was extensive and thorough; enough material to give anyone a step in the right direction of various activities relating to retain management... perhaps one of the best overall examples available here on udemy, and a course I would easily recommend to someone who has little education or experience in retail operations but an interested in retail management operations as a whole.

By Aarti Kanojia on 6/29/2025

The course was well-structured and covered a broad range of topics essential to modern retail, including customer service, visual merchandising, inventory management, retail operations, sales techniques, and e-commerce trends. The learning materials provided (videos, readings, and case studies) were informative and easy to follow. Real-world examples and practical scenarios helped bridge the gap between theory and practice. I would recommend this course to anyone looking to enter or grow in the retail sector. Thank You.

By Rishabh Verma7 on 2/28/2025

I’m 14 years experienced in Retail and taking this course to stay abreast of any new concepts and to polish my knowledge. This is simple, well explained, has text to read (preferred in some cases) and so far it has been both, engaging and informative. Should have frequent quizzes though, and some content lacks proper relevance/ prior explaination.

By Christopher Lee Kin Leong on 1/17/2024

This course is just right for those who have worked in the retail and are promoted to a managerial position, with clear and concise lessons and yet detailed covering a wide aspect of retail management. Thanks

By Romina Marissa Matute Leon on 4/13/2023

I think this could be more up to date exmapled and maybe with opinions from people that work in the busines. because it was good but at the same time it is easy to search for the same information by myself.

By Alessandro Biagini on 11/10/2022

No humans faces explaining. Some chapters are only readings. And it seems that there is 2 different voices as a teachers. Not totally focused 100% on retail. The course covers different topics around retail business like Design, CRM, Business Model

By Ella Hodgson on 9/3/2022

I've been working in retail a very long time and this course taught this old dog some new tricks. I found it was very helpful in explaining somethings I had no prior knowledge of and gave me an excellent refresher on things I already knew :)

By Olumuyiwa Oluwafemi Sobayo on 7/10/2022

This course is worth x20 of the investment. It is a diligent, very diligent work put together to create a comprehensive training on retail, business acumen, strategy etc. It is the richest course I have seen here on the subject. I have recommended it for my company to buy for all managers and assistant managers.

By Melissa Spearman on 2/3/2022

A pretty good general overview of the retail industry, I would say. It goes over more theoretical concepts than I thought it would while touching upon some interesting new concepts about ecommerce that I haven't ever considered before. However, I think that the audio and caption quality for some of the course's early videos could be improved upon. It would also be helpful if the course's instructors were to consider updating the course with some optional, but practical training exercises and learning resources for both the brick-and-mortar and the ecommerce business models that the students could then customize and personalize depending what their needs and the goals of their retail businesses are.

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Overall Score : 86 / 100