2025 Retail Predictions: A Focus on Customer Engagement

By : Techcontentwave Team
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Featured Speakers:

  • Matt Ezyk, Senior Director of Engineering, Ecommerce, Hanna Andersson
  • Michelle Grant, Director of Industry Insights, Salesforce

In 2025, shopping will be less about transactions and more about boosting engagement with shoppers. In fact, 28% of shoppers say the primary reason to shop in stores is to enjoy the experience. To deliver on fun and enjoyable experiences, retailers will embrace unified commerce as a basis for their operations, which will enable them to build shopping agents, deliver personalized in-store retail media experiences, gamified loyalty programs, and reach Gen Z in new ways. We’ll discuss the following:

  • Unified commerce will unlock new AI capabilities
  • Retailers will build shopping agents for consumers
  • Retail media strategies will focus on in-store opportunities
  • Gamification will be table stakes for loyalty programs
  • Retailers will explore new ways to reach Gen Z