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About 192 million U.S. consumers will shop online in 2016, up 15 percent from 167 million in 2012.


Social Media

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Social media is affecting consumer actions. About 90 percent of consumers online trust recommendations from people they know; 70 percent trust opinions of unknown users.


Demand Variability

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Fifty-three percent of chief supply chain officers ranked demand variability as their No. 1 concern.


Blind Spot

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Thirty-nine percent of supply chain executives identified real-time demand data as their top blind spot.


One-to-One Messages

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Thirteen percent of top-performing marketers are more likely to create One-to-one messages and expand the role of technology to improve the customer experience across all channels.


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Four or More

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Among leading marketers, 33 percent are more likely to serve personalized or targeted offers in four or more channels.


Analytics Influence

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Seventy-nine percent of CMOs say customer analytics influences strategy decisions.


Increase Analytics

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In addition, 81 percent of CMOs said they plan to increase the use of analytics technology.


Partnerships

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Meanwhile, 92 percent of CMOs said they plan to increase the use of customer and data analytics partnerships over the next three to five years.


Four in 10

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Four in 10 smartphone users leverage their devices to search for items in stores.


Multiple Channels

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Eighty-six percent of consumers using multiple channels spend four to five times more money than the average shopper.


Mobile

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There was an 88.8 percent increase in sales from mobile devices from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter this year.


In-Store

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About 45 percent of consumers shopping in a store leave and complete their purchase online for a discount as low as 2.5 percent.

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