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For large companies, it is possible to tap into these data for personalization using deep learning-based methods that require enormous computing resources. Small companies, on the other hand, cannot afford this. Furthermore, this level of tailor-made addressing necessitates an accurate customer representation. Nevertheless, the exploration of universal representations applicable across various tasks has been limited despite the advantages they offer. We propose a universal customer representation learned only from customer interaction data. We demonstrate that self-supervised trained embeddings of the customer interaction context are a suitable universal customer representation for various e-commerce tasks. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we conducted experiments comparing four different state-of-the-art approaches and their capabilities in different prediction tasks. 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