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Is Commerce Now Happening Inside the Moment? Insights From Our Private Mastermind
“As discovery moves offsite, a traditional e-commerce site can remain the single source of accurate, up-to-date information about a product and its digital checkout.”
- Lisa Goller, BrainTrust panelist
Are retailers too reliant on persistent messaging, via e-mail, social media, or SMS, to shoppers?
Will AI Cut Warehouse Jobs Or Drive Supply Chain Efficiencies?
“AI will fundamentally help the entire warehouse processing. But the labor component will be limited.”
- Gene Detroyer, BrainTrust panelist

What's happening in retail?
Here are our picks for top news impacting retailers today:
Anthropic’s Claude hits No. 1 on Apple’s top free apps list after Pentagon rejection. Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence assistant app jumped to the No. 1 slot on Apple’s chart of top U.S. free apps late on Saturday, a day after the Trump administration sought to block government agencies’ adoption of the startup’s technology.(via CNBC).
The winners of the smartphone boom think they know what the next big tech gadget is. Qualcomm, whose chips power smartphones from major Android device makers, launched a new chip Monday for new products along those lines. (via CNN).
X ads ‘Paid Partnership’ labels for creators so they can ditch the hashtags Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they’re advertisements.(via TechCrunch).
The Newest Front in America’s Supermarket War Is…Kentucky? Florida-based Publix is opening stores in Kroger’s backyard, and shoppers are early winners (via WSJ).
Amazon to invest additional $21 billion in Spain for data centres and AI Amazon said on Monday it would invest an additional 18 billion euros ($21 billion) in Spain to expand its data centres and boost AI innovation, bringing its total investment in the country to 33.7 billion euros. (via Amazon).
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