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How Do Consumers Choose in a World of Automated Ordering?

Harvard Business Review

The term “frictionless commerce” is widely used to describe how digital technologies are blending product purchases seamlessly into consumers’ daily lives. Stop resting on comfortable assumptions about the strength of your brands, your customer loyalty scores, or current success. Image Source/Getty Images.

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When The Customer Isn't Right

Harvard Business Review

She also receives a goodwill discount voucher of 10% as part of the store's customer loyalty initiative. Over the last ten years we have been researching deshopping in Britain through two mass market retail case studies and surveys of 150 independent retailers and over 500 consumers. Watchfulness.

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Instead of prioritizing process optimization around inventory management, UXes dedicated to cultivating loyalty, trial and ancillary services evolve. In a platform business model, firms create value primarily by connecting users and third parties, and they capture value by charging fees for access to the platform.

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