shopper

November 18, 2015

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

#CiscoChat Recap: Where Shopping Experience Meets the New Digital Customer

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In my first #CiscoChat I hosted together with Anabelle Pinto, we were joined by Gaurav Pant and Sahir Anand from EKN Research to share their perspective and...

November 10, 2015

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

It’s Time for Dinner: Improving the Quality of Our Food with the Internet of Everything

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It’s almost the holiday season and it’s time for your customers to host that special dinner party, where they can make memories and share stories with loved ones. What if they could also share the story of where that holiday meal came from? This is now possible using the power of the Internet of Everything […]

September 14, 2015

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

The Next Step in Your Store Analytics Strategy: Sensor Fusion

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Retail has entered an era of unprecedented competition and accelerated evolution worldwide. Retailers in every category, both brick-and-mortar and online, face larger and more unpredictable threats than ever before, from digitization of goods and distributed manufacturing to autonomous, near-instant delivery, service robots, and online experiences with unprecedented realism, as disruptors such as virtual reality, 3D […]

September 8, 2015

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Determining the Value of the Virtual Shopping Experience

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We are increasingly hearing about the value of improving the shopping experience by adding virtual expertise to the store. As head of Cisco’s Retail & Hospitality practice, I frequently talk...

How to Make Your In-Store Data Meaningful

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As an omnichannel retailer, you are probably offering your products to shoppers both online and in brick-and-mortar stores. And, like most retailers, you are no doubt collecting online data and running detailed website analytics that help you track preferred products, pricing, shopper behavior, ratings, and so on. But are you able to gather these same […]

Achieving a 3D View of Your Shoppers

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If every click made by a shopper on an online store can be considered valuable information, surely every step taken by a shopper in a physical store is also a similar wealth of data. While clearly this is valuable input that many stores would like to have, the means to collect and process it is […]

Why Your In-Store Web, Mobile, and Video Experiences Matter

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The lines between offline and online experiences are blurring. Customers no longer go online, they are online 24/7, and that includes inside your stores. In fact according to recent Google research, 89% of smartphone users leverage their smartphones while shopping in stores. And close to 70% of those used it to look at the retailer’s […]

Analytics Opens a Window into Each Shopper’s Journey

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The key to retail today is customer understanding —where each customer stands on his or her personal shopping journey, whether in-store or out. Retailers must “know” each shopper as never before. And they must offer the kinds of contextual, personally relevant experiences that will optimize their merchandise mix, create faster inventory turns, and drive greater […]

January 10, 2015

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Coming to NRF: Lisa Fretwell on Shopping Trends, New Frontiers

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Cisco will be featured in two Big Idea sessions at this year’s NRF conference starting tomorrow, and I’m happy to introduce guest blogger Lisa Fretwell, who will be leading one of these two seminars. Lisa is the Managing Director of Retail at Cisco Consulting Services, specializing in the Internet of Everything and analytics, and how these […]