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

Retail TouchPoints

A I – P o w e r e d C h a t b o t s Chatbots empower businesses to provide highly personalized digital experiences to their customers. They are an excellent way for businesses to provide around-the-clock self-service across all digital channels and customer service at scale.

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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. Phone — the Most Expensive CX Channel Retailers want their customers to be happy, but the cost of interacting with them live is usually inefficient and expensive.

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It’s Official – Amazon is an Ecommerce Enabler First and a Retailer Second

Retail TouchPoints

Two key examples: Opening up its successful ecommerce platform to third-party sellers, and then taking the tech and infrastructure it had painstakingly developed for its own ecommerce operation and offering it to those sellers as a service.

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What’s in Store for Grocery in 2022?

Retail TouchPoints

Even for an industry that has been characterized by change over the past two years, it feels like grocery — and especially digital grocery — is poised to experience upheaval in the coming 12 months. Trade spend is a quarter-trillion dollar industry and critical to profitability in grocery. Spencer Price is Co-founder and CEO of Halla.

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How to Turn One-Time Holiday Buyers into Brand Loyalists

Retail TouchPoints

The beauty of the retail industry today is the number of options for brands to connect with customers. Brands once had the challenge of getting customers to walk through their large store doors, supplying products they wanted to purchase and hoping they would return, but everything was limited to that in-store traffic.

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How to Build Customer Loyalty in the Beauty Industry

Smile.io

Valued at $523 billion, the beauty industry has scaled dramatically over the last decade, becoming more innovative and trend-focussed, with many brands finding unique ways to own the customer journey. These three things alone make loyalty and the beauty industry an essential combination.

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Generative AI for Personalized Service and a Competitive Edge in Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

The AI industry continues to evolve rapidly with the introduction of ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing Chat and Jasper, to name a few. How to Inspire Customer Loyalty with an Assist from AI Brands can now replicate a positive in-store experience online, but the right AI products can equip them to level up when it comes to personalization.

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