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Why Augmented Reality is Crucial to Improving the Ecommerce Customer Experience

Perficient

With the expanded success of ecommerce in the last twelve months, brands have more opportunities than ever to engage in digital channels with their consumers and stand out from the competition. In 2019, Gartner projected that over 100 million customers would be shopping with AR in 2020. Giving the Consumer Control.

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Staying on brand: How to humanize virtual agents, just enough

Insights on Business

We are currently at a moment in time where virtual agents (VA’s) have become more commonplace within customer service than ever. The use of VA’s is expected to grow by 1000% by the year 2020. Now, interacting through a text or a web app for customer service is not all that awkward and has gone mainstream.

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The Power Of Experiences And Subscriptions In Retail

PYMNTS

Experiential marketing is one of the most commonly discussed and executed strategies in the 2020 connected commerce world. 73 percent: Share of millennials who are doing DIY home improvement. 19 percent: Growth rate of “experience-driven” brands, per one recent report.

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‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Goes Big

PYMNTS

These and other tantalizing truths are found in the March 2020 Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker ®, a PYMNTS and Afterpay collaboration. The timing is good for BNPL brands, as physical retail stores struggle to stay relevant and eCommerce players try to crack the checkout conversion code.

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Today In Payments: MineralTree Raises $50M, Buys Two Companies; Robinhood Raises $460M

PYMNTS

The new funding is an outcropping of the Series G round unveiled in August for the firm, which is said to have helped millennials become interested in trading. PayPal’s Rainey: CFOs Must Focus On Customers (Not Just Cash Flow) Amid Great Digital Shift. Trading FinTech Robinhood Markets Inc.

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Returns Come Back To Haunt eCommerce Amid Pandemic

PYMNTS

And if a retailer charges too much (or charges at all) 57 percent of millennials will bail on future business. According to March 2020 data from Narvar and Forrester , 42 percent of retailers have already paused their pickup in-store and return in-store services. Now add a pandemic.

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Macy’s Bolsters Omnichannel Tech, Taps Into Subscriptions

PYMNTS

Moving deeper into the quarter, inventory became a mounting problem due to a combination of factors, including a miss on key women’s sportswear private brands, a slow sell-through of warm-weather apparel and accelerated decline in the international tourism business. Our customers love the expanded selection,” he said.

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