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Why Augmented Reality is Crucial to Improving the Ecommerce Customer Experience

Perficient

To provide these elevated customer experiences, businesses should consider the opportunity to implement Augmented Reality (AR) into the commerce experience. Forrester noted that 53% of the US retail industry planned investment in AR in 2020 because they know it assists consumers in making purchase decisions.

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Good Customer Service, Does it Create Good Customer Experiences?

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Many retail or consumer goods businesses have had to switch from traditional, in-person shopping experiences to digital buying. This transition is never the easiest for either party, but businesses must adapt and step up their game when accommodating and providing a seamless shopping experience for their customers.

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Why The Customer Experience Is A Program, Not A Project

PYMNTS

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. I see us rapidly adopting more contactless payments or card-on-file interactions within an app.”.

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Retail Pulse: Toys R Us Returns With Small Retail Stores

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Iconic brick-and-mortar retailers are sometimes reinvented, and return to the world of retail with smaller-format concepts. The parent of the Toys R Us brand, Tru Kids , plans to bring stores under the legendary name to the United States for the 2019 holiday season. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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Post-Toys R Us, Retailers Vie For Experiential Toy Shoppers

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Retailers are doubling down on toys amid a gap in the market left by the bankruptcy of Toys R Us. toy retailer Hamleys , for instance, is eyeing a potential New York City location for a flagship store. The atmosphere comes as brick-and-mortar retailers have to differentiate themselves from their eCommerce counterparts.

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Beyond bots: real conversations that humanize customer experience [Sponsored]

Bank Innovation

Survey after survey tells us that customers continue to value their experience at the branch. Perhaps it is because humans reassure them. A handshake, a frank conversation about the future, the eye contact, a personal story – these are exchanges that build trust and relationships. According to some […].

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Sage, Brightpearl Team Up To Boost Cloud-Based Retail

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Sage , which works in cloud business management, is working with digital operations platform Brightpearl on helping retailers utilize the cloud for their operations, a press release says. This investment will allow us to expand the platform and provide even better service, increase our product innovation and our fabulous team globally.”.

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