Thrive Commerce, based in Philadelphia, has helped brands like Autozone, Ebags, SureFit and Shoe Carnival appeal to those deal-seekers by delivering personalized promotions using machine learning.
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How FINDMINE answers the question, ‘What do I wear with these boots?’
FINDMINE has proven to boost total sales by as much as 10% for online retailers like adidas, Cubavera, Perry Ellis, John Varvatos and more. Yet those kinds of wins took Bacharach plenty of time — mainly finding out what the product really looked like.
Continue readingUlta Beauty and Iterate.ai Partner on Cutting Edge Innovation Lab
Ulta Beauty, the largest U.S. beauty retailer, and Iterate.ai, created a strategic partnership that will focus on driving digital innovation through a dedicated technology team and enhanced software tools. The goal is to deliver on a shared mission of leveraging technology to offer a truly personalized retail experience that is differentiated.
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BlueRoo Delivers Voice Tech for Tomorrow’s Purchases
Alexa, Google Home and Siri changed everything. In the next decade, the vast majority of shopping purchases will be made by voice. In fact, already 37% of millennials say they always or usually shop by voice. Amazon is charting that course, pouring billions into AI and hire thousands of AI employes.
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Buying with Pictures: Philly-based Slyce.it Builds Visual Search for Retailers
Photos of products is the most popular things people do with their phones inside stores, even more popular than checking product reviews and comparison shopping, according to research by ComScore. That, Mann believed, was a huge opportunity for retailers.
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No More Waiting. Yottaa eliminates long page load-times for retailers
Eight seconds may not seem that long. But it’s an eternity when waiting for a website to load. So long,
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Online Journey Hijacking costs eCommerce companies billions. Here’s the startup that wants to save you.
Imagine a customer standing inside your retail store, loving a pair of your handmade sneakers and taking them to the cash register to buy them. You’re thrilled — until suddenly a guy from a competing store down the mall appears by the shopper’s side. He holds up the same sneakers at half the price.Now take that scenario online, and you’ve got a huge problem affecting tens of thousands of retailers. This practice is known as online journey hijacking and uses “ad injector” software to insert competitive ads onto website pages within an online shopper’s browser.
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