Nearly all retailers have now implemented AI, but many are still waiting to see business value
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Retail is now a live case study in AI theater—near-100% adoption, but only half seeing ROI because legacy systems and dirty data choke the pipeline. If you own a P&L, stop greenlighting new AI pilots until you’ve funded data quality and integration work on the core stack.
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