Tag: Retail

This Week in CX: From AI Controversies to Retail Innovation

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we explored the latest in CX and innovation, from the critical role of human judgment in AI-powered customer experiences to the winners of the ICXA25 and...

Amazon Accuses Perplexity’s AI of Shopping on Its Site Without Permission

Amazon’s legal threat against Perplexity AI has become the first major test of what happens when artificial intelligence starts handling the shopping experience for consumers. The tension erupted after Amazon sent a cease-and-desist letter accusing Perplexity’s Comet assistant of unauthorised automated...

Primark Boosts Customer Experience With New Store Designs

Competing with online retail, physical stores need to maximise their commercial performance and attract more customers. In response, Primark, the European fashion retailer, is optimising its selling spaces by investing in a new store design concept. The concept increases a store’s...

Increasing Restaurant Spend Per Head in a Tough Economy: Changing Mindset and Strategy

Achieving resilience through a difficult economy and growing out of it on the other side is not an easy feat. Sure, some restaurants and pubs strike it lucky. They seem to have that holy-grail location and solid customer base; a...

This Week in CX: Where Innovation Meets Empathy

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we explored why AI isn’t fixing retail marketing bottlenecks, how award-winning brands use it in CX, and what multimodal tech and shadow IT mean for the...

Topps Tiles Transforms Store Execution for A Better Employee and Customer Experience

Topps Tiles, a UK’s tile retail specialist, has completed the rollout of Cegid Retail Store’s Excellence, a task management and retail operations platform to improve how workers execute in-store merchandising, to improve the customers’ in-store experience. Stretching across its 297 stores...

Your Christmas Deals Are Brought to You by AI

This Christmas, AI might just be the busiest elf of all. From scanning for discounts to picking out gifts, it’s fast becoming an essential part of the shopping ritual, though many people don’t even know when it’s working behind the...

This Week in CX: Fauxductivity, Fraud Fighters & Feel-Good Teams

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we explored how busyness doesn’t always equal progress, why fraud teams are becoming banks’ biggest trust builders, and how self-service AI could put consumer confidence at...

This Week in CX: Are We Designing Experiences or Frustrations?

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we highlighted how AI and digital trends are reshaping holiday shopping, customer experiences, dining habits, and health interactions. We are also discussing updates from the Wall Street...

This Week in CX: AI Risks, Workplace Safety, and Engagement Innovations

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we highlighted AI scams costing businesses millions, building psychological safety at work, and how voice-based AI could boost employee engagement. We are also discussing updates from the...