Stores
How is AI showing up in retail stores?
People will find AI across digital touch screens, other times in audio summaries plus behind the scenes in inventory management tools.
Vidhi is a reporter for Retail Brew covering e-commerce and retail media. She was previously a senior reporter at Digiday's Modern Retail. Her work has also been published in TheStreet, Forbes, Nikkei Asia and TheCity. Vidhi has a master's degree in business and economics journalism from Columbia Journalism School.
Stores
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