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How Enterprise Modernization and Artificial Intelligence are Charting a New Course for the Consumer Industry

Retail TouchPoints

They strive to create seamless, personalized customer experiences to continue to attract discerning consumers and build efficient supply chains, yet they often encounter barriers presented by fragmented technology infrastructure, which hinders scalability without disruption. These businesses find themselves at a demanding intersection.

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Smart Contactless Lockers are Helping Retailers’ Order Fulfillment Efforts

Retail TouchPoints

To understand why, we have to delve into the evolution of order fulfillment. Traditionally, when customers ordered products or goods online, they were shipped to their house. Not long thereafter, retailers started rolling out BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store) and created the order pickup desk.

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You Can’t Spell Retail Without AI: How To Optimize Your Chain Retail Store Design With Data Science

RTP blog

AI can help crunch the data around population trends, shopping habits, travel patterns and competitor reach, identifying the factors that represent an ideal location for your store. Being understaffed affects both the customer experience and staff morale, while being overstaffed is inefficient and costly.

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7 Home Decor Dropshipping Suppliers Every Retailer Should Know

Fabric

And if backend processes don’t go as planned, the customer experience suffers, and the company’s reputation can be impacted. When customers buy items from the retailer’s online store, the supplier ships the product directly to the consumer.

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4 steps to create a unified ecommerce strategy

GetElastic

Content management systems have gone a long way toward ensuring messaging consistency, but unifying the customer experience across touchpoint silos is proving more difficult. Inconsistent customer experiences usually starts with fractured transaction systems based on channel. Find Where the Problem Starts.

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ShopTalk 2018:  Artificial Intelligence in Retail

OrderDynamics

Furthermore, Ben highlighted his commitment to physical retailing stating that at M.Gemi they “believe that the physical experience is an essential piece of the customer experience today.” Customers want to interact, with the physical product. Away stores are about creating an ecosystem of the travel journey itself.

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With Travel Still Restricted, Simon is Bringing its Outlets to China via Livestreaming

Retail TouchPoints

For customers who haven’t been able to travel here since COVID, we’re able to virtually bring them here and enable them to shop like they are in the store. At the end of the day, we want our customers to be able to purchase online and decide how they want that order fulfilled.”.

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