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AI-powered retail experiences

Turn complexity into a competitive advantage

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Valtech is focused on helping leading retailers navigate the modern landscape, elevate customer experiences and unleash the productivity of their teams.

By combining Google Cloud’s cutting-edge AI with Valtech’s expertise in experience innovation, we empower you to move faster, personalize smarter and decide with confidence.

The margin-loyalty paradox

Retailers feel trapped.

On one hand, extreme price sensitivity is the new norm. On the other, customers will pay more for better experiences and values. A one-size-fits-all strategy of simply lowering prices is a race to the bottom, while ignoring the demand for value drives customers away.

 

56% 

of consumers now value lower prices over brand loyalty, forcing retailers into price wars that erode margins (Deloitte

70%  

average cart abandonment rate, often due to friction in the journey and a failure to deliver the right experience (Nielsen

Solving this paradox requires precision. Our capabilities are designed to give you the intelligence and agility to know exactly when to compete on price, and when to win with a superior, personalized experience.

 

An AI-powered response

We provide a framework for building a resilient, future-ready retail enterprise. Our solutions are built on three interconnected pillars, powered by Google Cloud.

1. Decide faster: From data silos to conversational intelligence

Retailers are unable to make fast, confident decisions because critical information is fragmented and inaccessible. The traditional BI model is too slow for the pace of modern retail.Homepage of a website featuring navigation links, logo, and introductory content about the site's purpose and services.

With VTIQ, Valtech's analytics accelerator built on BigQuery and Vertex AI, you can have a conversation with your entire enterprise data ecosystem. Ask business-critical questions in natural language and get answers in seconds. It's your smartest strategist and analyst, all in one.

Key capabilities:

  • Predictive analytics – more accurate demand forecasting, churn prediction and customer lifetime value modeling.
  • Advanced audience segmentation – create and activate high-value audience segments based on complex behavioral patterns.
  • Democratized data access – empower non-technical users to get answers from complex data without waiting for analysts.

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2. Convert better: Unlock the frictionless customer journey

The typical online journey is broken, leading to persistently high cart abandonment rates. We use a suite of integrated Google Cloud AI tools to systematically remove friction and personalize every step of the journey. 

Friction point  Business impact  AI-powered intervention 
Poor product discovery & generic recommendations  Site abandonment, lost sales and reduced AOV  Vertex AI Search for commerce (VAIS:C) understands user intent, not just keywords, to deliver 1:1 personalized, AI-powered search results and recommendations. 
Unguided shopping & after-hours questions  Delayed purchases, customer uncertainty and decision fatigue  Conversational commerce with Vertex AI Search for Commerce provides a personalized AI agent for guided product discovery and instant, 24/7 answers. 
Incomplete or inconsistent product information  Poor discoverability, reduced customer trust and higher return rates  Catalog enrichment using Gemini models enhances and augments product catalog information to improve discoverability and provide rich, consistent details. 
Lack of high-quality, diverse product visuals  Low engagement, purchase uncertainty and increased returns  Content generation with Imagen and Veo creates photorealistic product catalog and marketing images and videos, enabling customers to visualize products in context. 
Stale recommendations that don't adapt  Declining engagement and missed personalization opportunities  User event optimization ensures high-quality behavioral data is used to continuously refine AI models, improving SEO and the relevance of all AI-driven recommendations. 

 

3. Create smarter: Unleash GenAI to break content bottlenecks

Personalization efforts are starved by the content engine. With Cre8, our generative AI accelerator, we automate the content lifecycle to power truly personalized, omnichannel experiences at scale.

Automated product descriptions Turn minimal supplier data into rich, emotive, SEO-friendly descriptions in your brand's voice. See our Matalan case study for a live example.
Dynamic image generation Generate photorealistic lifestyle images or modify existing shots to match campaigns and local tastes.
Virtual try-on Create photorealistic models and accurately drape products to boost confidence and reduce returns.

Ready to transform your retail experience?

Let's talk about how Valtech and Google Cloud can help you build a more intelligent, agile and customer-centric retail future.