Stuart Archibald was one of the early proponents of database marketing in the 1990s, forming part of the exec team that launched Tesco’s Club Card, ultimately helping Tesco topple Sainsbury’s #1 UK supermarket slot. But Archibald says hefty corporate tech and CX investments today are spluttering after deployment and most companies “have lost their basic human understanding of customers”.
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