How Much of Today’s AI in Retail is Just Yesterday’s Software Wearing a New Label

Every earnings season brings another wave of headlines attributing retail and fulfillment gains to artificial intelligence. Stock prices react, press

Every earnings season brings another wave of headlines attributing retail and fulfillment gains to artificial intelligence. Stock prices react, press releases multiply, and retailers are told that a new era of automation has arrived. Yet a closer look at what’s actually being described often reveals something less revolutionary: optimization logic, routing rules, and automated decisioning […]