Unify post-purchase service across Central Retail's department, food, and electronics banners with an agentic concierge grounded in The1 loyalty and order systems — Thai-first, Vietnam-ready.
Central Retail is Thailand's largest multi-format retailer — Central and Robinson department stores, Tops food, Power Buy electronics — with significant operations in Vietnam (GO!, big-format retail) and Italy (Rinascente).
Public factThe1 loyalty program is among Thailand's largest with a membership base publicly reported around 20M+.
Public factBig-ticket delivery and installation (appliances, furniture) is the highest-friction post-purchase journey — scheduling, damage claims, and status calls concentrate there.
Reasoned inferenceBrand-siloed service systems likely force customers to re-explain across banners despite one loyalty identity.
Reasoned inferenceThe Vietnam business could reuse the same agentic layer in Vietnamese for GO! delivery journeys.
Seller hypothesis — validateValidate with the account team before outreach: Which banner's service journey has the worst repeat-contact rate · OMS/installer-scheduling integration feasibility · Group appetite to extend a Thai pilot into Vietnam operations
Limited internal ability or appetite to build the core platform — strong candidate for the packaged solution
Evidence: Central Retail's digital investment flows to e-commerce, loyalty, and store systems across fragmented banner IT estates — there is no central AI-platform engineering organization, and no public build ambition. A multi-banner retailer with siloed systems is structurally a buyer of layers that sit above the silos.
Why they won't build the full stack: Building would require first unifying banner systems — the very problem an agentic layer bought today works around. Moderate contact-center intensity makes internal platform economics unjustifiable.
Omnichannel growth and Vietnam expansion are recurring strategic themes in investor material.
GTM implication: A Power Buy delivery pilot that measurably lifts repeat purchase supports the omnichannel thesis management sells investors — and Vietnam replication extends it.
| Workflow | Why it matters here | Value | Complexity | Speed | Channels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Big-ticket delivery & installation service Proactive delivery updates, one-tap reschedule, guided damage-claim intake with photos in-chat. | A failed fridge delivery is a lost decade of category loyalty; these journeys carry the highest emotion per contact. Friction today: Delivery windows, installer coordination, and damage claims each live in different systems and queues. | LINEVoiceWeb chat | |||
The1 loyalty service Grounded point resolution from transaction history, personalized redemption guidance across banners. | The1 is the group's connective tissue; point friction erodes the cross-banner flywheel. Friction today: Missing points and tier questions queue at store counters and hotlines. | LINEApp chat | |||
Cross-banner product & stock inquiry Live stock and product answers with click-and-collect booking in-channel. | Omnichannel promise means answering 'is it in stock at Central Chidlom' instantly, in one place. Friction today: Store calls bounce between departments; online stock data exists but is not conversational. | LINEWeb chat |
Voice & channel orchestration, telephony, conversational execution, session/state, routing, integration build. Capability coverage validated during implementation.
API access to these systems is the critical-path dependency.
Identity-bound sessions, policy-bounded actions, 100% audit logging, human approvals at defined points, in-tenant intelligence.
All figures are modelling estimates from the labeled inputs above — nothing here is customer-provided yet. The pilot's first job is replacing these assumptions with Central Retail's measured baseline. Package price covers implementation only; recurring usage billed separately.
Why this package for Central Retail: Start with one banner's (Power Buy / home) delivery-and-installation journey — a contained, high-emotion workflow — before extending across brands and to Vietnam.
Packages cover implementation and integration only. Recurring costs are billed separately: Tilicho Labs platform usage (~$0.15/call-min indicative, usage only), Google Cloud consumption, telephony/carrier charges, managed operations, and support & optimization. No package includes unlimited usage.
“Central's promise is that every banner feels like one Central. A concierge grounded in The1 identity is the most tangible version of that promise a customer can experience.”
“One agentic layer over brand-siloed systems delivers the unified experience without waiting for the systems themselves to converge.”
“Delivery and installation escalations stop consuming store-manager time; exception patterns surface weekly to fix carrier and installer performance upstream.”
“Big-ticket post-purchase journeys become instrumented end-to-end — the repeat-purchase driver your NPS survey hints at but cannot fix.”
“Thai PDPA consent management across banners is enforced centrally, with every loyalty-data touch logged against declared purposes.”
“A Launch-scoped pilot on one banner's delivery journey, measured on repeat-contact reduction and installer no-show cost — expandable only on evidence.”
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Thailand's omnichannel retail leader (Central, Tops, Power Buy, Robinson; The1 loyalty at ~20M+ members) with Vietnam operations — solid fit but fragmented brand systems and moderate contact-center intensity make it a focused-entry account.
Scope a Power Buy delivery-and-installation pilot with the omnichannel team, instrumented on repeat-contact rate.
Entry: Omnichannel order & delivery service (electronics and home) · Launch package · 8–10 weeks to a live, measured pilot. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.
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