Christele Chokossa
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Christele Chokossa

Consultant

Cape Town

English, French

Christelle's role involves researching retail channels in South Africa, commissioning globally, centralised project management, content creation and structured client engagement.

Christelle started as an analyst covering beverages and tobacco in Sub-Saharan Africa. She moved to services and payments in 2018, covering travel, retailing, consumer finance, consumer foodservice, and digital services in Africa. In 2021, she opted to specialise in global retail channel analysis, encompassing retail and digital consumers. Christelle was previously a research and client analyst in a capital market research company that provided profiling for global institutional and private wealth investment managers.

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How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Retail Model

Retail competition’s next phase will be shaped by how effectively retailers influence demand, conversion and loyalty across an increasingly connected journey. Discovery, conversion and speed are becoming competitive battlegrounds as technology reshapes how demand is created and captured. GenAI, social commerce and quick commerce are opening new routes to consumers, forcing retailers to rethink how they earn and sustain loyalty, not just how they sell.

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Global Head - Loyalty
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Luxury Is Becoming AI’s Blind Spot

Luxury brands have long refined the purchase moment: the lighting, the associate, the packaging, an unhurried pace – each element converting interest into desire, and desire into margin. AI-mediated commerce is changing this, as AI systems experience none of the elements luxury historically relied on.

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Global Insight Manager: E-Commerce