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AI and the Art of Non-Linear Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

In the not-so-distant past, customer experience (CX) was a straight line — a predictable journey from point A (the customer’s question) to point B (the company’s answer). Welcome to the future of retail, where the checkout lines are virtual, the service is personal and the experience is anything but linear.

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Best Buy Canada to Operate 165 Small-Format Bell Canada Stores Under Renamed Banner

Retail TouchPoints

Best Buy and Bell will invest in an updated store experience and expanded product assortment, customer experience and training. The Best Buy Express small-store format will be designed to provide an easy-to-navigate shopping experience and also will serve as pickup points for online orders. “By

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Utilizing the External Data Boom for Digital Shelf Optimization

Retail TouchPoints

Opportunities for digital shelf optimization heavily depend on the changes on competitors’ shelves and how customers react to them. Thus, the company needs to analyze the competition and general online shopping behavior trends to get actionable insights for DSO, which can only be done by collecting real-time public web data.

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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

No matter how fast the modern payment ecosystem is developing, the pursuit of the best customer experience isn’t going anywhere. To answer customers’ demands, business leaders must find the balance between adapting services to consumers’ digitally-driven shopping behaviors and staying true to the company’s strategy.

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Put Your CPG Brand Where the Foot Traffic is to Stay Competitive

Retail TouchPoints

After two years of pandemic-driven online shopping, many consumers are stepping back out into the world and into physical stores. Phygital” is the term being used to describe this blending of physical and virtual to provide more immersive, interactive customer experiences. Given that omnichannel customers shop 1.7

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Astound Commerce Appoints Will Linebarger as VP, Composable Commerce

365 Retail

Linebarger has more than twenty-five years’ experience across telecommunications, finance and digital commerce. Our goal at Astound is to transform the way consumers shop online and provide our clients with the latest technology to drive sustained business growth,” said Youell.

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What the ‘Next Normal’ in Consumer Behavior Means for the Hourly Economy

Retail TouchPoints

The Age of the Coronavirus has completely changed the way people shop for groceries and daily items. Instead, online shopping has become the new normal in the post-COVID world. In fact, a recent survey conducted by McKinsey & Company showed that 50% of shoppers intend to shop for their groceries online.

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