Background
"Same brand, different service quality store to store" — the feedback we kept hearing.
Major Retailer
This major retailer operates 373 stores (including SSM subsidiaries) with approximately 35,000 frontline and sales staff. Most employees are deskless workers, making traditional classroom or PC-based e-learning ineffective at reaching them.
Operational know-how was siloed by store. When one location discovered an effective method, it took weeks to reach others. Customer feedback repeatedly noted inconsistent service quality across stores under the same brand.
Solution
"Ideas and work-info channels" — a learning culture built by field staff themselves.
Major Retailer
The retailer deployed TouchClass's SNS-style social board "TouchTogether" to open a peer communication and knowledge-sharing channel for frontline staff. Any employee could create and upload content, sharing operational tips through photos and videos.
Adoption spread organically through word-of-mouth without mandated participation. Cross-store communication flourished among staff in similar roles, shifting from top-down training to a bottom-up knowledge-sharing model.
Results
"Other branches resonated as one" — a communication revolution across 373 branches.
Major Retailer
The social board became the go-to "ideas and work info" channel across all 373 stores. A learning creator culture emerged organically as frontline employees began producing their own training content.
This rare case of organic, unforced adoption in the franchise/retail sector proved that giving content creation rights to the field — rather than centralizing it in HQ HRD — was the key to sustainable platform engagement.
Insight
When communication becomes the entry point, learning follows naturally.
Major Retailer
This retailer's case proves a core pattern repeatedly confirmed in whitepaper data: the "reason to open the app" must be designed before the "quality of training content." Once SNS-style communication features became the entry point, training content was naturally consumed along that flow. For this approach to work, however, a culture of actually reflecting field feedback in operations is a prerequisite. In organizations with strong top-down control, the same format may devolve into perfunctory participation.















