Tag: US

Starbucks Equips Baristas with AI Assistant to Speed Up Orders and Cut Downtime

Starbucks is introducing a generative AI assistant, Green Dot Assist, built on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform, to help baristas answer questions, solve equipment issues, and streamline service in real time. The assistant is already in pilot at 35 locations, with...

AI or Goodbye: The New Rules of Customer Experience in 2025

According to Verint’s new State of Customer Experience 2025 report, 86% of U.S. consumers now recognise the value of artificial intelligence in customer service interactions. Among 18-to-34-year-olds, that number soars to 98%, signalling a major generational shift in expectations. AI isn’t...

Instacart Turns Pinterest Pins into Purchases with New Retail Media Integration

Instacart and Pinterest are joining forces in a new retail media partnership that will bring shoppers even closer to their favourite items in the moment of inspiration. The collaboration will make Pinterest ads directly shoppable through Instacart, turning discovery into...

AI Knows What You Want to Buy, And Shoppers Are Here for It

A new report by Bloomreach reveals how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way consumers shop online — and it’s making the experience feel more human than ever. Titled How AI Is Teaching Us to Shop Like Humans Again, the report...

No More Blind Spots: RingCentral Cracks the Code on the Full Customer Journey

RingCentral has unveiled new enhancements in customer experience technology with the introduction of its new Customer Journey Analytics and the general availability of AI Agent Assist. These innovations, part of the RingCX platform, offer organisations a unified, AI-driven approach to...

83% of European Workers Says No to American Office Culture

European professionals are pushing back hard against the spread of American corporate culture, with a new survey revealing deep concern over its influence on workplace norms, mental health, and labour protections. According to the Crosscurrents Work Culture Report by career...

Are Your Internal Power Dynamics Undermining Your CX Efforts?

What is a great customer experience? For many, it is all based on the point at which the customer and company interact. CX’s value is often presented as something that exists beyond the internal workings of a business. Yet when it...

Where Is AI Actually Moving the Needle in CX?

Customer experience is facing a reckoning. After years of investment in digital tools and AI, Forrester’s latest US Customer Experience Index shows CX quality is at its lowest point since tracking began. AI-driven chatbots, once heralded as the future, have...

CallMiner Embeds Deep CX Analytics into Microsoft Dynamics 365

CallMiner is embedding its AI-powered conversation analytics directly into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center, giving service teams new tools to extract value from every customer interaction. This news comes on the heels of CallMiner’s recent acquisition of VOCALLS, a voice-first...

Scheduling Could Be Retail’s Most Expensive Blind Spot

In the high-pressure, margin-tight world of retail, success often hinges on something deceptively simple: having the right people, in the right place, at the right time. But according to the new report by Logile, most retailers are falling short of...