
Why retailers need to own their digital visibility
THE SO WHAT
If your demand surface is mediated by marketplaces and social feeds you don't control, you're renting customers from whoever owns the algorithm. Retail operators should be treating first-party search, content, and data as core infrastructure, not side projects, before the next platform policy change taxes their margins.
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