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Role of Knowledge Management in the Retail Customer Experience Scenario

Retail TouchPoints

According to Forbes, today’s business benchmark is customer experience. The key to having that edge over the competition is delivering top-notch customer experience, ensuring the quality of well-trained staff and continuously studying customer behavior and trends to ensure that customer needs and expectations are met.

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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

On the strategic side, 41% of retailers identified reacting more quickly to business and market changes as an important omnichannel objective, followed closely by the 40% that cited providing a seamless customer experience across all channels.

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Product Substitution: How Savvy Retailers and Manufacturers can Build Supply Chain Resiliency, Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

The letdown customers experience when their orders don’t arrive on time, or at all, results in uncertainty and distrust that’s difficult — if not impossible — to remedy. Retailers can expect that customers will turn to other vendors; once this happens, they’ve lost both the sale and the customer’s trust and loyalty.

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The Power of AI to Support Field Service Employees and Maintain Exceptional Customer Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

This tool can increase productivity by optimizing scheduling to better allocate resources and reduce service redundancies. Access to real-time traffic and weather data generates more accurate travel estimates, so technicians know how long their travel will take — and customers will know when to expect help.

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Kelly Goetsch - Chief Strategy Officer at Commercetools | Jason Cottrel - CEO & Founder at Orium | and guest speaker Brendan Witcher - VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.

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Your ID-POS are a Data Treasure Trove: How to Leverage them to Drive Customer Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

Let’s dive straight into it and unriddle the mystery of creating modern, highly personalized customer experiences while increasing performance in the cookieless future. When internal human resources are limited, automation and customization can be the solution, if properly applied. trillion in value.

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Employee Engagement And Cultural Transformation Drive Customer Experience

Forrester eCommerce

Employee engagement is critical for customer experience.