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Data Shows Customers Might be Resistant to AI Shopping Recommendations — Here’s what C-Suite Executives Should Know

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For much of last year, AI seemed immune to the normal laws that govern the marketing hype cycle: expectations just kept on inflating. The technology, it turns out, largely functions as promised: AI is in fact quite good at making personalized recommendations. The problem is, consumers don’t seem to want them.

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All the Feels: How Mood will Underpin Future Consumer Spending in Retail

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The future consumer is a #mood. By now, it’s a given that consumers expect personalized brand interactions and offerings, but it’s not just functional benefits they’re after. The most successful brands will connect emotionally to their customer base – and give them space and permission to experience a whole spectrum of feelings.

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Survey: 87% of Consumers Doubt Influencers Use Products They Promote

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The size of the global influencer marketing market has more than doubled since 2019, to $16.4 Desire Company CEO Eric Sheinkop discussed the survey results with Retail TouchPoints : Retail TouchPoints (RTP): What’s the significance of the fact that so many consumers doubt influencers even use the products they’re recommending?

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Personalization that Consumers Expect Post-Pandemic

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Today’s retail environment is challenging — whether it is price pressure from discounters, market disruption from online players, increased price transparency for shoppers or changing macroeconomics. Retailers must create experiences that are unique to their brand and tailored to individual customers based on their behavior, needs and habits.

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How Recommendations can Help Retailers Build a Deeper Relationship With Their Customers

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To offer simple product recommendations — such as “customers who bought this item also bought this” — is simply not going to cut it anymore. Customer expectations are at an all-time high, and if you are unable to deliver in line with the expectation, chances are likely someone else will. Getting Closer to Your Customers.

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Marketers Must Adapt to Find More Authentic Ways to Engage With Customers

Retail TouchPoints

Traditional outbound marketing to consumers, such as email campaigns, SMS text messaging, display ads, retargeting and other forms of “push marketing,” will in the future see even less engagement from consumers. There are two primary areas of marketing innovation underway: shopping rewards and social commerce.

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Dickies Tests AI-Enabled Fitting Recommendations in its China Tmall Store

Retail TouchPoints

Workwear brand Dickies has partnered with 3DLOOK to offer its customers in China a personalized fitting experience on the Tmall Global marketplace. The pilot program will leverage 3DLOOK’s AI-enabled technology to help provide accurate size and fit recommendations for Dickies apparel.