CAMP HILL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rite Aid Corporation has entered into a strategic partnership with Adobe to deliver seamless, personalized and connected health and wellness experiences for Rite Aid customers via Adobe Experience Cloud, the industry’s leading end-to-end solution for experience creation, marketing, advertising, analytics and commerce. Adobe Experience Cloud will enhance Rite Aid’s ability to offer more consistent, compelling and continuous customer experiences across all customer touchpoints by connecting Rite Aid’s pharmacy, retail stores and online customer journey.
The partnership will provide Rite Aid with real-time personalization, deep customer journey analytics, content management and advertising capabilities to enhance the company’s digital solutions and marketing. Rite Aid will also work with Adobe to deploy its commerce capabilities in Adobe Experience Cloud and leverage a team of Adobe industry specialists, who will provide strategic guidance and operational support throughout the partnership.
“Developing deeper relationships with our customers is a key focus for Rite Aid,” said John Standley, CEO, Rite Aid. “Establishing partnerships with best-in-class brands like Adobe is critical to Rite Aid’s digital transformation and ability to deliver on the changing needs of today’s customers. With Adobe’s Experience Cloud and their team of specialists, Rite Aid is well positioned to deliver an omni-channel shopping experience that is intuitive, personalized and seamless both online and in-store, and further connects our pharmacists to patients.”
Adobe Experience Cloud combined with Adobe Experience Platform processes and pulls together real-time data from multiple sources and organizes it in an actionable way, enabling the development of real-time customer profiles by leveraging Adobe Sensei, the company’s AI and machine learning framework. Rite Aid will leverage these customer profiles and Adobe’s services to effectively engage customers, facilitate growth and drive new customer acquisition and loyalty.
“By utilizing Adobe Experience Cloud, Rite Aid will have access to deep customer insights enabling the company to personalize the Rite Aid experience for millions of customers, while also creating more opportunities for our pharmacists to provide clinical services and value based care,” said Justin Mennen, senior vice president and CIO, Rite Aid. “From medication reminders to customized promotional offers, Adobe Experience Cloud will enable Rite Aid to continue to be the trusted partner for our customers' health and wellness needs.”
“Becoming customer obsessed across an entire organization is the basis for success in customer experience management or CXM,” said Matt Thompson, executive vice president, Worldwide Field Operations at Adobe. “Rite Aid is starting to embark on a major digital transformation journey and we are excited to be a partner in that process with our enterprise solutions and services.”
About Adobe Experience Cloud
Adobe is reimagining Customer Experience Management (CXM) with Adobe Experience Cloud, the industry’s only end-to-end solution for experience creation, marketing, advertising, analytics and commerce. Adobe Experience Cloud helps brands deliver consistent, continuous and compelling B2C, B2B and B2E experiences across customer touchpoints and channels—all while accelerating business growth. Unlike legacy enterprise platforms with static, siloed customer profiles, Adobe Experience Platform empowers companies to fully understand customers and make data actionable through Adobe Sensei, the company’s AI and machine learning technology. Industry analysts have named Adobe a leader in over 24 major reports focused on experience—more than any other technology company.
About Rite Aid Corporation
Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) is one of the nation's leading drugstore chains with fiscal 2019 annual revenues of $21.6 billion. Information about Rite Aid, including corporate background and press releases, is available through the company's website at www.riteaid.com.
