Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

In an era when consumers expect brands to respond rapidly to queries about products, delivery schedules and any other interaction, a growing number of retailers are turning to interactive voice response (IVR) systems to enhance customer experience. Speed is part of the user experience.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2024

Understanding customer behaviour is pivotal to delivering exceptional customer experiences (CX) online. Identifying pain points: By closely monitoring user interactions, businesses can identify specific pain points that hinder the customer experience. It all starts with setting clear objectives.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

At a time when acquiring a new customer is five times more expensive than retaining a current customer, there is another return on this investment that might be even more lucrative in the long run. Returnless refunds are improving the almighty customer experience, and in turn, their potential customer lifetime value.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Here are three reasons why forward-thinking retailers are implementing MACH principles — and working with organizations that are doing so — to foster dynamic customer experiences that align with consumers’ changing wants and needs (and in turn, exceed revenue goals!): The customer experience is changing — and faster than ever.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

Ideally, these apps also should contribute to a better in-store shopper experience. Understaffing contributes to theft and shrinkage in general, but it also creates an increasingly impersonal feeling for offline shopping ,” said Nick Kramer, Leader of Applied Solutions at SSA & Co. in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Customer experience and employee experience live in two different acronyms, CX and EX. A recent Forrester survey report found that companies that provide connected experiences between CX and EX report dramatic benefits around innovation, cost reduction, revenue growth, customer experience and digital transformation.

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Retail Focus

JULY 10, 2024

With flexibility and modularity as the guiding principles, Husqvarna has created a concept that caters to the needs and store space of each dealer, whilst enhancing the end-customer experience. To further improve the customer experience and provide fast service, digital and interactive displays are core features of the new design.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 25, 2023

in its fiscal year 2023 (ending in September) versus 2022…which may come as no surprise to you at all if you’ve been in a Costco on a Saturday lately. Helping customers leave the store with everything they need is a key way to enhance the customer experience. Costco grew revenue by 6.7% and net income by 7.7%

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Cisco Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Cisco Live Melbourne starts next week, and I’m excited to spend time with Cisco customers and partners at this energizing event from November 11-14, 2024. This this year’s theme is Go Beyond, and the Cisco Customer Experience (CX) team will be there to help you do just that, with an array of sessions, demos, and lightning […]

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Customer experience (CX) optimization is a necessity for ecommerce retailers and other online businesses that want to convert visitors, drive sales and cultivate customer loyalty. That way, as consumer preferences and technology change, your site will deliver what your customers are looking for.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

In an era of fierce competition to attract consumers’ tightening budgets, customer experience has become the key edge retailers can deploy to stand above the competition. The best-in-class checkout tools can be used at permanent shops, pop-up stores, or events and staff can take payments with the confidence of 99.9

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 23, 2024

Once the scan is complete, customers can visually remove the furniture in their room and add new items from Ikea’s vast assortment. These items can be situated in spaces seamlessly and at scale, so users get a detailed understanding of how items will look in their spaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Throughout my career as a customer experience (CX) practitioner, I’ve seen brands make the same mistake time and again by believing that metrics alone improve customer experiences and loyalty. Too many organizations are content with merely managing their experiences and setting better metrics as their only North Star.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

While you can “try-on” clothes and make-up both virtually and at-home with similar benefits, you can’t really tell how that new loveseat will look in your reading nook when you are in a brick-and-mortar store. Experiential Effects: Give Your Customers a Gift. What does that mean?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2023

Many brands are getting so caught up with trends like AI or the latest social media platform, they’re overlooking the importance of the customer experience, contends an expert in experiential retail. He quotes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who describes Amazon not as a retail company but as a customer experience company. “I

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Retail Customer Experience

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Shawn Nelson, founder and CEO of Lovesac, a keynote speaker at the ICX Summit, shared insight on how sustainability impacts the retail customer experience.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2023

In a world where customers are bombarded with information as brands try to get more exposure, data silos continue to stand in the way of good customer experiences, according to Emarsys’ APAC VP of Revenue, Kristyn Wallace. “When I walk into a store, I want an extension of my online experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the state of retail technology advances, companies are learning how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools to provide more bespoke shopping experiences online. In any omnichannel approach to sales, it is essential to look at how to replicate the best parts of an in-store experience online.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2021

At a time when brand interactions bridge both digital and physical shopping, it is increasingly important for retailers to leverage technology to improve customer experiences and create value. Here are a few examples of how technology enhances customer experience and strengthens brand value.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The landscape of commerce and delivering customer experience changed dramatically over the past year, as millions of shoppers found health, safety, social distance and remote work taking center stage in their daily lives. So what are the customer experience and commerce trends that will continue, or become more fully realized, in 2021?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2021

“We had to operate on overdrive,” Michelle Yanez-Olivares, Accent Group’s head of customer experience (CX), told Inside Retail. To help the CX team keep up with this increased demand, the company has opened a new CX hub at its head office in Melbourne. The rise of virtual selling.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2022

Improving the customer experience has been an important point of focus for retailers for quite some time. Happy customers are happy spenders, who then go on to share their experiences with other potential customers – so investing in their positive impressions of a store makes good business sense.

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Retail Wire

MAY 1, 2024

Sam's Club has rolled out AI-powered exit technology at over 120 locations, marking a significant advancement in retail customer service.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But with email separate from your SMS marketing, loyalty program, subscriptions, and more, you’re often left with disjointed customer data and therefore a disjointed customer experience. The post Creating customer experiences that drive ROI appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Retail Customer Experience

AUGUST 20, 2024

Shawn Nelson, founder and CEO of Lovesac, is a keynote speaker at the ICX Summit taking place Sept. His topic will focus on how sustainability impacts the retail customer experience. 9-11 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Senior retail consultant at Univers Retail | Published author | Visiting lecturer. As consumption is becoming less focused on the product and more focused on the experience of accessing the product, new brand management practices are being shaped, whether at luxury or mass industry levels. Ghalia BOUSTANI, PhD.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

At the heart of it is ensuring that every enterprise we support can provide its customers with the best digital experience possible, wherever they are in the world. Monitoring systems and performance at a granular level is critical in today’s high-stakes business environment. Think like a customer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

Collective Cannabis has partnered with AI and robotics startup Wings to utilize the solution provider’s EXO Delivery System to streamline logistics and deliver an enhanced customer experience. Collective Cannabis is focused on reducing congestion and minimizing waiting times at its store in Littleton, Mass.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2022

Brands do this under the guise of helping provide a better customer experience, but it only takes one breach for that to completely wipe out consumer trust — it exposes the extent to which brands collect, track and keep consumer data on file. 3 Tips When Navigating the new Data Privacy Landscape. Current data privacy laws in the U.S.

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