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The Retail Pulse Report

Nikki Baird

A weekly newsletter full of timely insights on retail & technology strategy, curated and analyzed by Nikki Baird.

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Answer Engines Aren't Eating Retail. They're Doing Retail's Job.

Source: Adobe Stock. AI generated. When AI helps your customers better than you do.

I struggled to figure out the order to tackle things this week. Do I talk about retail’s UI challenges, and then more generically about how AI is changing...

9 days ago
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Retail Pulse Report: The Calm Before the Storm

Source: Adobe Stock. Prompt: “AI Bubble”

Economic indicators improved slightly in April. But the question is whether that is the way it’s going to continue to be, or if it is just the calm before the storm. My bet is on the latter.

Whethe...

16 days ago
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Retail Pulse Report: Where Should Agents Live?

Source: Adobe Stock. Prompt: Walled Garden. It looks like a home for agents, no?

I spent a lot of time over the last two weeks describing this substack as “me thinking out loud.” This is true. When there’s a lot going on it helps to puzzle...

23 days ago
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Retail Pulse Report: The Economics of AI and What it Means for Retail Part 2

Source: Adobe Stock. Prompt: “AI rate limit reached.”

This week’s article was written mostly while trying to pretend I was sleepy on a plane to London. Having the screen on and bright didn’t help that attempt at all, but if I’m slightly le...

a month ago
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Retail Pulse Report: The Economics of AI and What it Means for Retail Part 1

Source: Adobe Stock. Prompt: “A house underwater”

This week is part one of a two-parter. Today you get the setup:

  • Platform LLM’s are offering a service at an unsustainable price

  • It’s not clear that they can actually deliver enoug...

a month ago
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