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May 20, 2014
Ed Brill is Chicago-based director of mobile enterprise marketing at IBM
By a Luxury Daily columnist
By Ed Brill
The retail customer experience is a shifting collection of moments that occur while shopping online, in-person at a store or while resolving an issue via a contact center.
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