A personalised omnichannel customer experience is the current retail mantra, the holy grail and a silver bullet all wrapped in one. The retailers who provide their customers with an engaging omnichannel journey through each step of the buying cycle, from the need-recognition and alternative-evaluation to completing the purchase, have been shown to enjoy significantly higher conversion rates and customer loyalty than their competitors (for example, in our studies up to 59% higher in-store conversion rate, and 23% higher purchase size).