The Most Thoughtful Gift You Get This Holiday May Have Been Picked by a Chatbot
THE SO WHAT
If more holiday shoppers let chatbots choose gifts, the recommendation engine becomes the real storefront. Retail operators should be optimizing product data and margins for AI-driven discovery flows, not just human search and browsing.
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