The pandemic changed the traditional shopping experience. Here’s how retailers can attract and retain customers.
We’ve reached an unprecedented precipice in retail – especially grocery – where the emerging technologies passing from R&D to You & Me have the potential to blow the doors off everything we thought we knew about customer experience. SAP’s retail industry veteran David Gruehn.
For years grocers have been shedding their Multichannel chains in pursuit of becoming customer experience focused Omnichannel retailers. An explosion of disruptive forces and a rapidly maturing digital shopper has raised the bar yet again, however, as leading-edge grocers are pursuing the future of retail: Customer Adaptive Retailing. In this session we will explore how, for the first time in history, emerging technologies are enabling grocers to build real-time hyper-personalized relationships with customers through immersive, predictive and adaptive customer experiences.
How the hybrid cloud is transforming retailing and the current challenges CIO’s in the retail space face managing their hybrid cloud deployments.
Today’s mobile technology barely touches the tip of the iceberg in terms of the impact it will have on our lives, much less the retail industry.
With consumers embracing social media and all things mobile, they now expect seamless, personalized and value-driven experiences whenever and wherever they shop.
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.
David Gruehn, Microsoft Industry Solutions Director, talks about innovation and how it’s impacting the retail industry.
From NRF January 2010, David Gruehn talks about the impact of the Consumerization of IT in the retail industry, which is the phenomenon of consumers adopting technology faster than retailers’ ability to adapt which is revolutionizing the industry. He describes how this presents both threats and opportunities for the retail industry.
“The industry has evolved into a ‘new normal,’ and it’s having an impact on brand equity, IT spending priorities, new business models and overall competition,” according to David Gruehn, U.S. retail industry solutions director for Microsoft Corp,