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How to Supercharge the Retail Customer Experience with RFID

| Alan Tamny

With customer experience and engagement in the spotlight, retail stores realize the growing need to engage customers and improve their experience, service and satisfaction levels. Find out how RFID technology can enable smart, real-time recommendations in store, improving engagement and increasing sales.

Ecommerce Operations Summit 2019 Call for Speakers Now Open

| Mike O'Brien

Are you an operations and fulfillment professional with a great, compelling story to tell that will educate and inform your industry peers? If so, we want to hear from you! The Ecommerce Operations Summit 2019 Call for Speakers is open from now until Aug. 10. Send us your best ideas and we’ll consider them for next year’s agenda.

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How Lane Bryant Puts the Customer First at Every Touchpoint

| Daniela Forte

Putting the customer at the center of everything a brand does is vital to success in retail and ecommerce. In the latest MCMCommerceChat podcast, Bruce Pullens, Director of Customer Strategy and Insights for Lane Bryant, discusses why a customer-centric approach is critical and what it looks like within his company. Listen to what Pullens has to say about how retailers can achieve this.

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3 Ways Retailers Can Leverage AI to Improve CX

| David Keane

By leveraging AI technology, retailers can empower their associates with content and tools to create a more personalized shopping experience, which ultimately drives sales and increases customer loyalty. Here are three ways retailers can improve the customer experience with AI.

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A Snapshot of How Merchants Are Doing in Post-Purchase

| Mike O'Brien

In the latest MCM CommerceChat podcast, Manish Chowdhary, CEO of Pulse Commerce, discusses the company’s recent study that tracked live orders of leading merchants and analyzed 50,000+ purchase path data points. Learn what these results mean in terms of addressing the post-purchase performance gap.

Asian Consumers Have Greater Fulfillment Expectations Than Those in U.S.

| Mike O'Brien

Surprisingly, Asian consumers far outstripped their U.S. counterparts in terms of expectations for placing late orders and still qualifying for fast delivery, according to a new global version of the UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper survey. See what other insights were gleaned from the study on preferences around the globe.

Technology Allowing Brands to Survive, Thrive Amidst Disruption

| Daniela Forte

Doomsday predictions of a “retail apocalypse” notwithstanding, industry disruptions including thousands of store closings and many bankruptcy filings provide opportunities for brands to grow their customer relationships, according to a new study from Deloitte Digital and Salesforce. See what types of disruptions are paving the way for a retail renaissance.

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How Web and Mobile Come Together in the Customer Journey

| Bart Mroz

The rise of ecommerce has led to the creation of millions of online shops, and many brick-and-mortar stores are taking a cue from those success stories and expanding their online presence. These are a few ideas to help you connect the ecommerce dots across multiple platforms.