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How Retailers Can Use AI to Improve Customer Experience and Build Trust

Retail TouchPoints

With the sector continuing to experience accelerated growth, major retailers are looking for ways to maintain and build trust while dramatically improving customer experience and orchestrating cohesive customer journeys. Consumers are only one click away from retailers at all times.

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Social Commerce: Retailers (and Platforms) Struggle to Catch up With Consumers’ Enthusiasm

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Suffice it to say that social commerce has arrived in America. However, one reason for this flurry of enhancements is that there’s still considerable friction in social commerce processes. Whether social commerce will play a crucial role in retail going forward is no longer a question. Many [social] purchases are very organic.

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Deloitte: UGC and Gaming Offer Brands New Opportunities to Build Connections

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According to the study, TV and movies no longer dominate the media landscape like they once did as consumers, especially younger ones, increasingly turn to new digital channels for more immersive entertainment experiences. However, this isn’t a case of purely replacing one medium for another.

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Exclusive: New Research Highlights How Brands Can Capture Today’s Always-On Shopper

Retail TouchPoints

It started with COVID, and it hasn’t stopped — consumer shopping behaviors continue to rapidly shift even as the pandemic moves into the realm of memory. For brands and marketers, it’s hard, nigh impossible, to keep up with how and where consumers are shopping today, but media planning and buying platform Infillion tried.

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Stitch Fix Launches ‘Holiday Party Hotline’ to Help Shoppers Find the Perfect Outfit

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The Stitch Fix value prop has always centered around its robust data and analytics strategy — with so much insight into consumer behaviors and preferences, stylists can match shoppers to the perfect wardrobe pieces. The multi-channel initiative was developed in partnership with stylist and social media influencer Allison Bornstein.

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Encourage Your Customers to Call Again. Here’s How.

Retail TouchPoints

Phone-based customer service, or voice, is well established as the most commonly used and the most tightly managed customer service channel. It may be exactly what contact centers need to not just move on from deflection, but have the confidence to once again encourage customers to call. And yes, customers are noticing.

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Becoming a Part of Our Customers’ Relationships

Retail TouchPoints

We are a company all about relationships because that’s what our customers are celebrating when they buy from us — all the relationships in their lives. Understanding this process and implementing a relationship and engagement strategy has been a priority for us as we create a dialogue with our consumers that is more than just a transaction.

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