Live in stores across the Netherlands

Your in-store collection programme is a marketing channel waiting to happen.

Capture customer emails and product-level data the moment someone brings back a worn product. Reward them. Sell to them again. At a fraction of paid media cost.

Two customers in conversation beside an in-store product collection display at a Dutch retail store
€1 to 3
Cost per email
20s
Interaction time
92%
AI accuracy

What is Utilitarian?

A platform for retail stores. A customer brings back a worn product, scans a QR code on a poster, and gets a reward. You get their email, the product they brought back, and an audit-ready record of where it goes next. All in 20 seconds. No hardware. No app. No IT project.

Interior of Runnersworld Eindhoven, a Dutch running specialty retailer, showing the in-store collection point near the till

Runnersworld Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Already working with
INTERSPORT Runnersworld EK Sport FastFeetGrinded

One QR code. Five things happen.

No app download. No staff training. The customer scans a poster, the platform handles the rest, and the value flows back into your CRM.

01

Customer brings back a worn product.

They scan one QR code at the counter. No app download, no staff training needed.

02

They get a reward on the spot.

A discount or store credit, your choice. Issued instantly. The customer leaves happy.

03

You get their email and the product data.

Captured with consent. Goes straight into your CRM.

04

The product moves to recycling, with traceability.

Full visibility on where it went. Audit-ready when the sustainability team asks.

05

You use that email to sell again.

Send a targeted offer or loyalty reward. The collection moment paid for itself.

20s
per customer interaction
€1 to 3
cost per email captured
4 weeks
from sign-up to live in store

These aren’t cheaper paid social leads. They’re a different category of lead entirely.

A customer who brought a product back to your store is not the same as a click on an Instagram ad. They walked in. They own one of your products. They’re standing in a replacement-consideration window. They handed you their email at the moment of highest intent.

SignalIn-store collectionPaid socialPopupLoyalty
Verified in-store visit~
Known product owned~
Active replacement window
Discount issued at capture~
Product-level segmentation
Cost per verified consumer email
In-store collection€1 to 3
plus product data, in-store visit, replacement intent
Paid social (Meta, Instagram)€12 to 25
Email only
Website popup€18 to 31
Email only

Sources: DMA / Litmus 2024, Opensend 2025, WordStream 2025, internal deployment data.

A worn product used to be the end of the customer relationship. Now it’s the start of the next one.

Without the platform
Product gets thrown away or shipped to a recycler with no record
You absorb the cost of collection and get nothing measurable back
The customer walks out anonymous
No follow-up. No data. No second sale.
With the platform
Product is routed to recycling with a full audit trail
You capture the customer’s email at €1 to 3 per address
The customer leaves with a reward and a reason to come back
Product-level data flows into your CRM, ready for the next campaign

What are you leaving on the table?

Drag the sliders. The numbers update instantly. Then book a 20-minute walkthrough with your figures.

Tell us about your stores.

Three sliders. No form. No submit button.

Number of stores 5
Bring-backs per store per month 30
Average order value €120
113New emails per month
€54KAnnual subscriber value
€39KAnnual re-engagement margin
€1 to 3In-store collection
€12+Paid social
€18 to 31Website popups

Numbers are based on industry benchmarks (DMA / Litmus 2024) and our own deployment data. Your figures will vary by store, category, and average order value.

How five Dutch stores turned in-store collection into a customer acquisition channel.

A five-month pilot across Runnersworld and INTERSPORT stores in the Netherlands, including the launch of The Loop circular concept store. 600+ customers participated. 750+ pairs scanned with product-level data. Email capture at €1 to 3 per address.

Wall of running shoes on display at Runnersworld Eindhoven, Netherlands Runnersworld Eindhoven

In the first season, customers started arriving at the store with the explicit purpose of bringing back worn shoes and collecting their reward. The collection point became a loyalty driver in its own right.

Read the full case study
600+customers participated
€1 to 3per email captured
0changes to store operations
“We even see customers coming back specifically to hand in their shoes and collect their reward. The system is working very well in terms of building loyalty and repeat visits.” Rowen Slagter-Pormes, Management, Runnersworld Hoorn

Proven in stores, with real customers.

“What makes this data valuable is not just transparency, but control. For the first time, we can link in-store collection directly to operational circular outcomes.”
Danny Pormes
CEO, FastFeetGrinded
“The combination of simplicity, customer engagement, and data-driven transparency is what makes this approach stand out. This is exactly the direction our industry needs.”
Ron Bruinenberg
Retail & Expansion, EK Netherlands
“The steps were self-explanatory. Customers responded positively. Customers are very curious about what actually happens to the shoes.”
Wim
Entrepreneur, Intersport Ermelo

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