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AI and the Art of Non-Linear Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

In the not-so-distant past, customer experience (CX) was a straight line — a predictable journey from point A (the customer’s question) to point B (the company’s answer). Welcome to the future of retail, where the checkout lines are virtual, the service is personal and the experience is anything but linear.

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The Art of Curation: ShopStyle’s Journey to Become a First Stop for Fashion

Retail TouchPoints

ShopStyle launched in 2007 with an innovative idea: creating a search engine focused solely on fashion. Fifteen years and two acquisitions later, the landscape of shopping-focused search engines has gotten crowded, with a host of new start-ups and major tech players like Google and Pinterest all looking to get in on the action.

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Why Two Cannabis Retailers are High on In-Store Tech and Innovative Design

Retail TouchPoints

For approximately two decades, Cookies and Dr. Greenthumb’s have become two of California’s most prolific and trusted cannabis brands, with deep roots in the music, arts and entertainment industries. Our budtenders meet and walk with customers, populating their order on a tablet before heading to the cash desk for checkout.”

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DTC Brand Aims to Make Furniture Shopping ‘Easy Like Sunday Morning’

Retail TouchPoints

Owning the Entire Customer Experience. As a result, it has been able to maintain its DTC model and ensure it can keep its competitive pricing and own the entire customer experience — from delivery to installation. That’s why the ethos behind our brand is making every day feel as relaxing as Sunday morning.”.

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7 Targeted Retail Strategies for Revenue Growth and Margin Improvement

Retail TouchPoints

In today’s challenging business landscape, where profit margins are shrinking, supply chains are slow and uncertain, labor shortages are prevalent and inflation is a concern, it is crucial for retailers and brands to differentiate between understanding customer habits and fostering customer loyalty in order to succeed.

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Decoding Patterns In Consumer Behavior Empowers Leaders

Forrester eCommerce

When sociologist Jane Jacobs artfully depicts crowds on a city sidewalk, she may as well be describing consumers. In Jacobs’ words: “Under the seeming disorder. is a marvelous order. It is a complex order. This order is all composed of movement and change. ensembles all have […].

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Experience-driven commerce and its impact on B2B

GetElastic

In today’s digital commerce world, customer experience is the key differentiator and competitive basis between brands. Every experience a customer has with both your brand and a competitor will influence their final purchase, and as a result, any commerce offering needs a state-of-the-art solution to capture growth effectively.

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