Getting Ready for AI – Part 7 – The 20 Store Sandbox
Most retail leaders get paralyzed by scale. They look at a fleet of 500 or 1,000 stores and ask: “How could we ever afford to clean all that data?” They wait for a magical, enterprise-wide technology package that promises to solve everything overnight. That technology isn’t coming to save messy workflows. If you want to […]
Getting Ready for AI – Part 6 – From Cost Center to Revenue Enabler
For decades, retail store planning has been viewed through a single, limiting lens: an operational cost center. The mandate was simple—turn out store drawings as quickly and cheaply as possible. When store planning is squeezed strictly for cost reduction, spatial data gets treated like disposable scratch paper. Floor plans are drawn, archived as static “artifacts,” […]