Retailers are focused on creating seamless experiences across their multiple shopping channels, but today’s digitally mature customer has created their own channel, determining what they want to listen to and how they want to interact with retailers. If retailers aren’t focused on the only channel that exists now – The Customer Channel – then they run the risk of becoming irrelevant.
Cloud computing solutions, which enable businesses to deploy and consume IT services over the Web, are certainly game-changers for retail.