The Retail Pulse Report
Nikki BairdA weekly newsletter full of timely insights on retail & technology strategy, curated and analyzed by Nikki Baird.
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Retail Pulse Report: Consumer Discontent with the AI Future is Growing
Source: Adobe Stock. Prompt: “angry consumer”
This week’s topic will cover the question “What do consumers really want out of all of this agentic commerce stuff anyway?” It’s part one of two, because I only got halfway through and it’s alr...
Retail Pulse Report: Everybody's Disappointed by Retail AI
Source: Adobe Stock. My assessment of where retailers and brands are on their AI journey.
Last week was a light week for picking up news (beyond economic indicators) so I went through my pile of long reads to see if there was anything rele...
Retail Pulse Report: The Averages Are Lying to You
Source: Adobe Stock. Prompt: “a broken pressure gauge”
Once again, let’s level set on the important questions to know about AI (from retail’s perspective):
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What does AI really cost?
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What does the ROI actually look like, once we p...
Retail Pulse Report: When the AI Slop Is Coming From Inside the Brand
Source: Adobe Stock. Prompt: “a shovel and a hole”
If I have any theme for this week, I suppose it’s “mud.”
Consumer spending updates for June are muddy. Inflation reads are muddy. And the heroes and villains in building or undermining cu...
Retail Pulse Report: AI Slop is Every Retailer’s Problem
Source: Adobe Stock. AI-generated. Prompt: Unanswered Phone
I’m still waiting for things to settle down enough to have any kind of coherent take on where consumers are headed. That question is getting urgent as we turn the corner into the...
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