Sears offering personalized product recommendations

Sears Holdings has started offering Sears.com and Kmart.com customers personalized product recommendations using technology from Richrelevance.

“Personalized product recommendations will benefit shoppers by helping them more easily find the products they are looking for and discover other relevant products that they might not have known we offer online,” said Imran Jooma, VP of direct commerce at Sears. “This partnership enables us to create a more relevant and personalized online shopping experience, which we expect to have a significant impact on increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Richrelevance's platform analyzes shopper behavior to customize each shopper's online experience from homepage through checkout. It analyzes more than 15 distinct types of consumer shopping behavior to predict which products are relevant to which shopper, using a multialgorithmic approach. Attributes analyzed include a shopper's previous purchases, key search terms and specific brand-preferences.