Customer Experience · retailOS · Omnichannel Commerce · 2025

Designing a True Omnichannel Experience: The Sleep Company with retailOS

Sleep is personal. Their retail experience now is too — online and in-store.

The Sleep Company
Customer Experience
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SmartGRID mattresses, one omnichannel backbone
connecting every store and every sale.

The Sleep Company is a premium mattress and comfort-tech brand known for its proprietary SmartGRID® technology. With rapid expansion across digital commerce and physical experience centers, the brand focuses on delivering a high-touch, consultative buying journey. As offline retail scaled nationally, maintaining operational precision and brand consistency across online and in-store touchpoints became a strategic priority.

We deployed retailOS on the same commerce architecture as The Sleep Company's e-commerce platform — creating a unified omnichannel backbone with shared inventory, centralized coupon management, AI mattress recommenders, and a brand-aligned POS interface that matched the premium in-store experience the brand had built its reputation on.

D2C Sleep TechretailOSSmartGRIDOmnichannel POSEMIShopifyIndia
Engagement at a glance
PlatformretailOS + Shared OMS + Shopify
CapabilitiesAI Recommender · STN/GRN · Coupon Engine · CMS
RegionIndia (Multi-City Experience Centers)
FocusAOV Growth, Reconciliation Speed & Brand Experience
Year2025

Built for the store associate recommending without inventory data, the ops lead reconciling cash manually, and the growth team running promotions that did not sync across channels.

Three people needed the in-store experience to feel as premium and seamless as buying a SmartGRID mattress online — a customer in a consultation, a store associate managing a complex sale, and an operations director with reconciliation chaos across a growing store network.

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Customer · considering a premium mattress purchase

Customers visiting experience centers for a high-consideration mattress purchase expected expert, personalised guidance. Without intelligent recommendation tools at the point of sale, associates had no way to surface products matched to individual sleep needs and budgets.

💡 Consultative mattress purchasing requiring intelligent in-store recommendation tools
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Store Associate · The Sleep Company Experience Center

Store associates managing EMI payments, coupon validation, and warehouse stock queries for home delivery were forced to navigate separate systems and make manual phone calls mid-sale. The operational complexity redirected associate attention from the customer to the systems — mid-transaction, during the most critical part of the sale.

⚙️ Store associates juggling multiple disconnected systems during complex sales
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Director of Retail Operations · The Sleep Company

Retail operations directors overseeing a growing network of experience centers had no unified view across online and offline channels. Cash handovers were manual, inventory between warehouse and stores required daily reconciliation, and a premium brand was being run on a fragmented operations stack.

🗂️ Online and offline operations siloed — growing reconciliation burden across experience centers

The Sleep Company's stores, stock, and promotions were running without a shared operational backbone.

The Sleep Company's in-store experience had been designed to match the premium standard of the SmartGRID brand — consultative, personal, and expert. But the operational infrastructure behind the experience center didn't match that standard. Inventory reconciliation between e-commerce and physical stores was manual and delayed. Deepa's team managed campaign coupons, EMI offers, and warehouse stock queries through separate tools and phone calls — complexity that stole time from the customer conversation that made the brand exceptional.

Rahul's visibility into the retail estate was insufficient for a multi-city network. Reporting on experience center performance required manual data consolidation. Cash handover processes lacked structured audit trails. Stock Transfer Notes between warehouse and stores were handled informally. The operational debt was invisible in the brand's marketing — but very visible to the teams delivering the in-store experience every day.

A premium sleep brand whose in-store experience was aspirational — and whose retail operations infrastructure was not.

Complexity factors at the start
Online and offline inventory syncSiloed — manual reconciliation required
Coupon and campaign managementFragmented across channels and stores
In-store consultative toolsAbsent — no product recommender at POS
Cross-channel order reconciliation timeManual — hours per cycle
Retail operational reportingDelayed — data consolidated manually

retailOS with AI mattress recommender at POS, centralized coupon engine, STN/GRN automation, and EMI and endless aisle.

retailOS gave Sunita a consultative buying experience, gave Deepa one system for everything, and gave Rahul complete visibility across his entire retail network.

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Unified Omnichannel Commerce Backbone

Deployed retailOS on the same commerce architecture as the e-commerce platform — shared OMS, real-time inventory sync, and centralized reporting eliminating the silos that created Rahul's reconciliation burden.

Sustainability
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Brand-Aligned POS with AI Mattress Recommender

Built a visually rich POS frontend following The Sleep Company's design guidelines — incorporating product imagery, EMI displays, and AI-powered mattress recommendations that turned Deepa's interactions into genuine consultations.

Human-Centricity
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Centralized Coupon & Promotion Engine

Campaign coupons, freebies, Buy-X-Get-Y offers, and conditional discounts managed through a unified backend with store-level sync and real-time usage tracking — Deepa applies promotions confidently without calling HQ.

Sustainability
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Structured STN/GRN & Warehouse Sync

Integrated Stock Transfer Notes, Goods Receipt Notes, and warehouse sync — every inventory movement between warehouse and experience centers is documented, timestamped, and reflected across the system automatically.

Resilience
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Cash Management & Handover Workflows

Implemented structured cash management with daily overviews, employee handover logs, and transaction audit trails — giving Rahul financial accountability across all experience centers without manual consolidation.

Resilience
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EMI & Endless Aisle Selling

Enabled in-store EMI payment flows and endless aisle capabilities — customers ordering products not physically in-store for home delivery, making the experience center a full catalogue environment.

Human-Centricity

10% AOV increase, 35% faster billing, 40% faster reconciliation, omnichannel inventory unified in real time.

10%
Increase in store AOV through AI recommenders, unified coupons, and EMI visibility
Sunita discovers products perfectly matched to her needs — and purchases them
30%
Faster cross-channel order reconciliation through unified OMS and centralized reporting
Rahul's finance and ops cycles move faster with accurate, automatic data
35%
Faster billing and assisted selling through brand-aligned UI and simplified checkout
Deepa spends more time consulting, less time managing systems
40%
Reduction in operational reconciliation time through structured STN/GRN workflows
Manual stock and cash audits replaced by automated verification

What changed for the people
on both sides of the screen.

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The Consultative Experience Delivered

Sunita's experience center visit feels like an expert consultation — the AI recommender surfaces mattress options matched to her sleep profile, EMI options are visible, and the entire journey from recommendation to purchase happens in one seamless flow.

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One System for Everything

Deepa manages complex mattress sales — with EMI flows, warehouse stock queries, and campaign promotions — from a single system that matches the premium environment she works in. The operational complexity is invisible to her customers.

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Complete Retail Visibility

Rahul monitors every experience center from a unified dashboard — inventory levels, sales performance, cash positions, and reconciliation status all visible in real time. Multi-city expansion is supported by operations infrastructure that scaled with it.

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Brand Premium in Every Touchpoint

The Sleep Company's in-store experience now matches the premium standard of its products — brand-aligned interface, intelligent recommendations, and seamless omnichannel operations that reinforce the brand identity at every customer interaction.

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