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Put your full catalog in the hands of people who talk to customers, and let them close the order without device handoff.
1,700 stores
according to Modern Retail
Lowe's integrated its third-party marketplace directly into My Red Vest, the internal software employees use on store tablets, across more than 1,700 stores, according to Modern Retail. Customers can now order extended-catalog items—inflatable pools, decorative yard ornaments, niche hardware—through an employee without opening their own phone or leaving the floor.
The mechanic is simple: when a customer asks for something not stocked in-aisle, the employee opens My Red Vest, searches the marketplace catalog, shows the item on the tablet, and completes the order on the spot. The transaction closes in the store, attributed to that location, and the item ships to the customer's address. No app download, no "search it later," no handoff to a separate digital experience.
This works because it removes three friction points that typically kill extended-assortment sales. First, asking a customer to pull out their phone and search an app introduces a decision gate—they defer, forget, or comparison-shop elsewhere. Second, employees previously had no visibility into marketplace inventory, so they couldn't confidently recommend it. Third, the store captured no attribution for the sale if the customer ordered later from home. Lowe's collapsed all three by making the employee the ordering agent.
The broader mechanism is agent-assisted digital conversion. The employee becomes the interface between the customer's stated need and the long-tail catalog. The customer gets expert guidance and immediate resolution. The store gets the sale. The brand extends assortment without expanding physical footprint. The tablet becomes the register for the entire catalog, not just the SKUs on the shelf.
For a small physical-product brand, the steal is to put your full catalog in the hands of anyone who talks to customers. If you sell through retail partners, give store staff a simple lookup tool—a mobile-optimized page, a shared Airtable, a QR code that opens your Shopify catalog filtered to "available to order." Train them to say, "We don't stock that here, but I can order it for you right now and have it shipped to your door." Capture their email so they get the tracking. Offer the retailer a small affiliate commission on employee-assisted orders to motivate floor staff.
If you sell direct and have a showroom, event booth, or pop-up, equip your team with tablets loaded with your full site. When someone asks for a size, color, or configuration you don't have on hand, don't say "check online later." Pull up the product, show it, and close the order face-to-face. Use a tool like Square or Shopify POS so the order is attributed to the physical interaction. Follow up with a thank-you email that includes tracking and a note that they can reach you directly for future orders.
The pattern extends beyond retail. Any business where a human intermediary talks to a buyer—trade shows, field sales, installer referrals—benefits from arming that intermediary with frictionless access to the full catalog and ordering capability. The insight is not "add more SKUs." It's "make someone else the order button."
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