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Why Augmented Reality is Crucial to Improving the Ecommerce Customer Experience

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Consumers are looking for online buying processes that are easy and can provide opportunities to search, learn, and purchase products without and roadblocks, especially during COVID-19. To provide these elevated customer experiences, businesses should consider the opportunity to implement Augmented Reality (AR) into the commerce experience.

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Deep Dive: Why Retailers Are Merging Online, In-Store Shopping For The Omnichannel Age

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Consumers have shopped online, via mobile devices and at brick-and-mortar stores in various capacities for years, but the pandemic is dramatically expanding the connections between these channels. billion online in Q2 2020. percent of respondents in an early March survey said they were using their mobile devices to shop more often.

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The Retail Innovation Race Pits Products Vs. Services

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Innovation takes many flavors and paths, and that’s especially true when it comes to merchants who sell retail products and companies that sell retail services. Service merchants are very much focused on their profession and giving great customer service — that’s difficult to do online.”. Innovation Role.

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Why The Customer Experience Is A Program, Not A Project

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The pandemic has reshaped how we interact with merchants — and what we expect, as customers, from those increasingly digital interactions. Call it the transformation of CX, shorthand for the customer experience.

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How A Retail Incubator Could Produce The Next Big Innovation

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The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. This QR code can lead to a more expensive transaction and a less seamless experience compared to NFC.”. Customer Journey.

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Retail Innovation Has Changed — Can SMBs Keep Up?

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It’s not your father’s customer loyalty anymore. Still, it’s striking — or, perhaps, significantly hopeful, in a retail sense — that 65.4 percent of retailers have said they innovate to improve customer loyalty. Things have changed, though, he said — one reason why that innovation finding carries such weight. “I

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Brick-And-Mortar Retail Drives More Commerce Innovation

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Brick-and-mortar retail can get a bad rap these days, as its considered old-fashioned and on the decline. But recent developments show that innovation in commerce does indeed happen in this area of retail. That’s why [the] brick-and-mortar retailer isn’t going anywhere. You cannot replace that experience (online).”

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