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Missing the AI Boat: The High Cost of Staying Behind

Chad Barr

Retail : AI-powered inventory management reducing waste and optimizing stock levels. This kind of tailored experience is now a benchmark—and a reminder of what’s possible when businesses embrace AI. Customer Engagement : Chatbots offering 24/7 support and answering queries instantly.

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WalMart Margins Set to Plunge? Will Rest of Retail Follow? What About Jobs?

MishTalk

Retail sales reports on Wednesday have me thinking about the strength of the economy, commercial construction, jobs, and profit margins. Let''s start with a look at retail sales. Retail Sales Falter Amid Signs of Global Slowdown. Similarly, Bloomberg reports Weaker Retail Sales Signal Smaller Spending Boost.

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If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI

Harvard Business

For example, online retailers can adjust product prices daily because they have automated the collection of competitors’ prices. As a result, as one retailer discovered, they can end up with price adjustments perpetually running behind the competition even if they introduce AI because their data is obsolete.

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Retail Bank Operational and Digital Leaders Reap the Rewards

BCG

BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics.

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Can we rely on LIBOR? - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

Bremmer highlights the importance of LIBOR by explaining that it is “a key benchmark rate that affects the price of $350 trillion worth of securities and loans around the world.” ” Indeed, the British Banker’s Association notes that LIBOR “is the primary benchmark for short term interest rates globally.

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Asset Management – Client Segmentation (Part 3 of 4)

Tom Spencer

Retail Wealth Management. Retail investors are everyday investors without much buyer power. Generally, retail investors are individual investors with liquid investable assets of less than $1 million – although the allure of a more bespoke investment counsel is not compelling until $5 million.

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Black Friday Roundup: Walmart has 10M Transactions in 4 Hrs; Exhausted Shoppers Head Home; Fights Break Out at Walmart; Real Fight is Online

MishTalk

Over all, online sales were up nearly 10 percent over last year by Black Friday afternoon, according to IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark. Brick-and-mortar retailers mounted a furious defense on Black Friday to head off incursions into one of the industry''s biggest shopping days by such online rivals as Amazon.com Inc. Best Buy Co.

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