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How Gen AI is Reshaping our Understanding of User Intent

Retail TouchPoints

While this poses a challenge, it’s also an opportunity to embrace cutting-edge technologies that provide deeper insights without compromising user privacy. It’s not merely about substituting cookie-based tracking with another data-centric method.

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Exclusive Shikatani Lacroix Q&A: How Using Customer Data Can Humanize the Digital Experience

Retail TouchPoints

As technology and digital continues to infiltrate consumers’ lives, the need for human interaction and emotional connection is more important than ever. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): Shikatani Lacroix Design’s latest white paper looks at finding the balance between technology and human interaction.

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2024 Predictions and Trends in B2B Ecommerce: Navigating the Digital Evolution

Retail TouchPoints

As 2024 unfolds, the B2B ecommerce sector is undergoing significant transformation driven by technological advancements and shifting buyer behaviors. Navigating digital transformation in 2024’s B2B ecommerce landscape hinges on a deeper comprehension of AI, omnichannel strategies and social commerce.

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For Forever 21, Omnichannel Experiences are Key to Staying a Gen Z Favorite

Retail TouchPoints

My daughter lives in technology. To do it, Forever 21 is: Making significant investments to align its digital and physical channels ; Enabling fast, frictionless checkout ; Meeting Gen Z where they are, on social media, to drive discovery ; and Listening to its customers to evolve its brand in line with their expectations.

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5 BigCommerce Competitors You Should Consider in 2024

Groove

This starts with the platform's omnichannel capabilities that allow business owners to deliver seamless shopping experiences across multiple channels, including web, mobile, social media, and in-store. Salesforce Commerce Cloud also offers a deep integration with Salesforce's customer relationship management (CRM) platform.

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

Retail TouchPoints

While online platforms and communities like Instagram are the “cornerstone” of the brands’ digital footprints, Del Fante explained that each physical location presents a unique opportunity to “express our brand in a way for us to retain customers. Everything from the millwork to the fixtures and technology drive a brand story.

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Livestreaming in the U.S. isn’t Dead, it’s Just Happening in the Wrong Place 

Retail TouchPoints

Unfortunately that ancient (1989) bit of cinematic wisdom hasn’t exactly held true in the modern field of social media, where platforms including TikTok , Facebook and Instagram are increasingly pulling back on social commerce initiatives that have failed to attract enough of the right players. If you build it, they will come.”