by Mike Duff | Mar 28, 2025 | Retail Articles
Businesses are aggressively investing in AI across supply chains as a counterweight to inflation and trade volatility, but a growing execution gap threatens to derail their efforts, according to a report by Relex Solutions, which operates a unified platform for...
by Mike Duff | Mar 27, 2025 | Retail Articles
To provide another way to inspire purchasing, Amazon has developed an AI-powered ‘Interests’ feature to automatically find new products that suit consumer hobbies and interests. According to a blog post by Daniel Lloyd, Amazon’s vice president of personalization,...
by Mike Duff | Mar 27, 2025 | Retail Articles
Walmart has launched Wally, a new application of generative AI, to speed up and simplify merchant analysis and strategy development. Wally is an GenAI-driven assistant that, the company says, will help merchants with both big-picture thinking about and deep dive...
by Mike Duff | Mar 4, 2025 | The Inspired Home Show, The Inspired Home Show 2025
New realities in reaching consumers, action regarding chemicals including PFAS, lead and cadmium and product development were topics driving the sessions at the Inspiration Theater during day two of The Inspired Home Show. Kait Stephens, CEO of Brij and Gina Lombardo,...
by Mike Duff | Feb 28, 2025 | Retail Articles
Retailers have been rolling out shopping assistants, chatbots, and automated purchasing capabilities supported by artificial intelligence. However, consumers continue to be wary of AI’s too-great control over their online store visits. In a survey commissioned...