AI Case Study
The North Face offers customers a personalised, engaging virtual shopping experience using chatbot and machine learning
Outdoor apparel retailer, The North Face is using Fluid’s Expert Personal Shopper (XPS) software and IBM Watson to enhance its app by offering personalised recommendations and assisting with the shopping. IBM Watson enables the customers to have a natural conversation with the app while Fluid XPS system powers the recommendation engine.
Industry
Consumer Goods And Services
Retail General
Project Overview
"Using Watson's natural language processing ability, XPS helps consumers discover and refine product selections based on their responses to a series of questions. For example, after a shopper enters details on a desired jacket or outdoor activity, XPS will ask questions about factors like location, temperature or gender to provide a recommendation that seeks to meet the shopper's specific usage and climate needs. Unlike other product recommendation engines, this conversation with the shopper is what enables XPS to refine its recommendations and deliver a more accurate result."
Reported Results
The company claims:
* Average customer engagement of two minutes in length
* 60 percent click-through rate to try product recommendation
Technology
Function
Sales
Sales Operations
Background
It is estimated that about 70 percent of shopping carts are abandoned online before a purchase is complete (Sanz, n.d.). A little interaction with the customer could go a long way in completing the transaction.
Benefits
Data
factors like location, temperature or gender to provide a recommendation that seeks to meet the shopper’s specific usage and climate needs