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How Crate & Barrel
Connects Shoppers
with Relevant Products
Aaron Veit, Director, Digital Product Management, Crate & Barrel
Peter Curran, General Manager, Digital Commerce, Lucidworks

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Agenda
• Who is Crate & Barrel
• Why Crate & Barrel partnered with Lucidworks
• Implementation
• Outcomes
• What’s next
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● Founded 1962 in Chicago
● International destination for
furniture, housewares, and decor
● Innovative "vignette" style
● Help people “Welcome Life In”
7,50
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C&B and CB2 EMPLOYEES
WORLDWIDE
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ECOMMERCE
SITES
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0STORES

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Why Crate & Barrel Partnered with Lucidworks
• Search solution had limited machine learning
• No personalization
• No merchandising tools
• Modern technology stack
• Personalization and recommendations with ML
• Merchandising solution
Before After
Consequences Outcomes
• Losing customers to competition
• Missed opportunities and revenue loss
• Productivity loss for merchandisers
• Higher conversions, ATC, AOV
• Increased revenue
• Higher customer engagement and satisfaction

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SPEEDY INTEGRATION
Initial
contact
January 2020
April 2020
RFP Issued
January 2021
POC complete
Vendor
selection
February 2021
March 2021
Project Kickoff
June 2021
Go live on all 4 sites
Internal Hand off March
1st. MVP
(cb2.ca)launched on May
5th. Other three sites
(C&B, C&B CA, CB2) went
live June 2nd.
September 2020
POC Kickoff
August 2020
Professional
Services engaged
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SPEEDY INTEGRATION
● Deep dive into data and signals
● Discovery workshop
● Integration meetings
● QA plan
● Daily check ins ten (10) days prior to launch
● Biweekly steering committee meetings
• milestone achievements
• project phases
• what to expect next
● Launch: All hands on deck to make sure launch went smoothly
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“Be quick, but
don’t hurry.”
–John Wooden

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Improved Relevancy
*Bouclé - looped yarn and the resulting fabric
woven from this yarn.
Example: Bouclé*
Before: Velvet at top of list
After: Looped yarn materials at top of search

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Improved Relevancy
Example: Pampas*
Before: Vase included in search results
After: Only feathery plumes returned
*Pampas - creamy white feathery plumes

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What’s New and What’s Coming
• Search (soon browse)
• Type ahead
– Product suggestions
– Popular keyword suggestions
– Category suggestions
• Signals – boost
• Query recommendations
• Experimentation
• Create new fields to handle special
characters in facets better
• Omnichannel shopping
What’s new What’s next

12.
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
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