An assistant that can't say "I don't know" is a problem
How we confined the answers to the catalogue and the store's own pages, and why we'd rather hand over to a person than risk a nice-sounding answer.
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An empty search is the only place where the customer writes down what they wanted to buy and didn't find. Four causes explain almost all of them, and only one forces you to buy stock.
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The correlation is real and it shows up in every store. The conclusion people draw from it is usually wrong, and it leads to optimising the metric ins...
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