In the past, retailers asked ‘Will my customers visit us online?’ Today, the question is ‘How can I get customers to shop more online with me and not with my competition?’ the facts ensures that the social media is transforming shopping ways to harness the power of automation.

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• Knowing what your customer wants before you can deliver what they need must be the first defiance. There are also different kinds of personalization for different levels of interaction & this is the challenge, personalization is different for every retailer.
• Retailers are being challenged to come up with new ways to retain customers and ensure brand loyalty online.
• Retailers need to rethink the way in which they run their operations so they can focus more effectively on their customers.
• Retailers need to act more quickly than ever these days.
• Moving beyond ‘like’ to ‘buy’ is no easy task, we live in an era of “click and expect”.
• Shoppers will always prefer a better experience that is easily accessible, which Facebook & Twitter can offer the platform to do this.
• Finding exactly what you want, when you want, it has always been the issue, whether via organic search or on-site search.
• Recently social media platforms such as Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter were viewed as ideal channels for building brand awareness.
• The very nature of social media, the ability to share, recommend and show products to friends and peers short-cuts the comparison shopping customer facilitating the purchase of products directly from that social media platform was the next natural step.

A Figure Shows The Global Retail E-Commerce Sales, 2017.