Disruption and adaptation are changing the retail model and blurring the lines among retailers, brands, and wholesalers. Online pure-plays are opening brick-and-mortar stores and traditional retailers are experimenting with new store models and in some cases, expanded experiential brand strategies that include new revenue sources, such as services or food and beverage options. Retail is …

The way that brands engage with customers is changing. The traditional engagement methods used in the past are no longer meet the needs of all the customers or brands. Effective customer engagement strategies will prolong the customer journey beyond a single purchase. It can work effectively to reduce churn rates and the more a customer …

Engaging the customer to enhance the shopping experience through personalization and relevance is the key factor to winning and keeping customers. Of course, it’s not surprising that meeting the expectations of today’s customers has become extremely challenging. Besides that, the networks in the past were unreliable, slow and expensive, but today’s networks are robust, reliable and resilient network technology. …

The main theme to retailers’ customer experience priorities is optimizing the customer shopping experience with a rate of 55%, followed by increasing customer loyalty (50%), improving the mobile shopping experience (45%) and creating a seamless experience across all channels (42%).

Unified commerce is the future of retail, to understand retailers’ customer experience priorities today and for the future, and how the evolution of unified commerce helps provide retailers with the right people, processes, and technology to enable retailers to enhance the customer experience. The key customer experience capabilities are: 45% of retailers plan to utilize …