Retailers not well-equipped to handle omni-channel retail experience

A great article from Retail Customer Experience on where retailers are most likely to succeed first in the fight for the omni-channel customer experience. It seems like retailers are great at figuring out product, price and inventory. However, this has been optimized by channel, not across channels. Customers are more and more thinking across channels and devices (buying where/when/how they want), but retailers are ill-equipped to engage this type of customer until they figure out how to integrate their core systems to deliver a seamless customer experience regardless of device, in-store or online. Tons of investment needs to be made in both technology, organization restructurings and marketing efforts to deliver a customer-centric experience.