Retail: conversational technologies are becoming popular

 

With the changes brought about by the pandemic, the retail sector is going to considerably transform. Indeed, new technologies are changing the way we shop.

Even the way we purchase products on the Web is no longer the same. While we used to click through the navigation bar of a website to find an item, this is a thing of the past now. Nowadays, we just have to use a search bar to look for a specific product. This is more convenient. Chatbots are becoming increasingly popular because of their practicality as well. Firms have been experimenting with this technology for quite a long time already. For instance, Facebook has tools that merchants can use to make bots that engage with clients. Retailers on Amazon have used this solution to answer consumers’ questions. In case the digital device cannot help, a customer support agent hops in.

Since visiting physical stores has become extremely impractical during this pandemic, it can be expected that these conversational technologies will gain momentum. As a tech analyst for Forrester Research advanced, “This notion of going online and searching and clicking and using a navigation window is very dated. What’s next after that? A lot of it is going to be conversational, whether it’s text or voice.”


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