Nadella thinks retailers would be better served building their own AI teams that could Online Cigarettes Store USA predict consumer behavior or solve last mile delivery challenges than allocating more funds to search functions. Good examples of retailers doing just that, according to Nadella, include Starbucks (Nadella is on Starbucks’ board and is quick to offer up praise), Walmart and Home Depot.
To single out Starbucks, the coffee titan isn’t necessarily out there blasting the internet with offers Newport Cigarettes Shop for free cold brew. Instead, it has spent big-time to build predictive analytics into its mobile app (the app will now know what you want before you even know). Starbucks has gone as far as adding tech to its store coffee machines to analyze performance and anticipate future needs of a single store.
That’s value creating.
It’s no small surprise that each retailer mentioned — viewed on Wall Street as tech leaders — have seen their stock prices outperform most in retail over the past decade.
Indeed Nadella may be onto something here, even if he has a vested interest in promoting the powers Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes of tech sitting atop tech software giant Microsoft. Because let’s face it, retail continues to be a train wreck despite all the money being spent to reach shopping crazy consumers on platforms such as Google and Facebook.