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Academy Sports + Outdoors Expands Revionics Partnership to Optimize Customer-Centric Pricing

Retail TouchPoints

As part of the new multiyear agreement — which builds upon a partnership that started in 2016 — Academy will use the Revionics Base Price and Markdown solutions to not only optimize its pricing strategy but better manage inventory levels throughout the product lifecycle.

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After 70 Years, IKEA Disassembles Both Print and Digital Catalogs

Retail TouchPoints

The digital version debuted in 2000, and at its peak in 2016, 200 million copies were distributed in 69 different versions, in 32 languages and to more than 50 markets. In October, IKEA partnered with Google Cloud as part of an initiative to harness AI for better customer recommendations and to launch 3D visualization design tools.

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Good American Makes Good on its Brand Promise with Smart Fitting Room Tech

Retail TouchPoints

For example, a customer can quickly select and request a new size or color of an item in the fitting room , or they can scroll a feed of similar, recommended items to request and try on. If a customer is done trying on items and decides to buy them, she can do so using self-checkout capabilities.

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How 5 Online Businesses Already Increased Revenue Up to 96.44% – Just By Selling on eBay

BigCommerce

After all, eBay has a total 167 million shoppers, whom of which spent $84 billion in 2016 alone. That’s why in November 2016 , BigCommerce and eBay partnered up to make getting set up that much easier –– and increase revenue for savvy brands looking to grow sales without much work. I’d recommend the integration for sure!

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Personalization in the Age of GDPR

Retail TouchPoints

We look to our Netflix homepage for curated TV and movie recommendations, rather than checking out the latest releases online. We’ve become so accustomed to technology that knows us that the experience of being recommended the wrong product is jarring, and frankly insulting, if it comes from a brand we patronize frequently.

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Adobe Summit Positions 2016 as the Year of the Digital Experience Wave

GetElastic

On the screen appeared personalization product recommendations, taking into account the just-scanned measurements, store inventory, and (if the shopper was logged into the store’s mobile app at the time) past purchase history and other specific preferences.

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Alexa: Retail’s Next Friend.Or Foe?

RTP blog

as of November 2016. In summer 2016, Jeff Bezos named the Echo Amazon’s “ fourth pillar product ,” placing it alongside the marketplace, Amazon Prime and Amazon Web Services. Users build their own customized lookbooks and receive personal product and brand recommendations based on these submissions.