Self-checkout was meant to improve retail economics. Instead, it exposed a new margin leak. Retail shrink hit US$112.1 billion in 2022, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF),...
Month: June 2026
How AEON is rewiring retail for the age of agentic commerce
For decades, AEON won with a familiar retail formula: more stores, more inventory, more foot traffic. That era is over. In a market defined by real-time data, predictive...
Can AI save the mid-market retailer? The battle for the future of physical stores
Physical retail isn't dying. It's being brutally sorted. As e-commerce commands 42 per cent of global sales in Asia alone, brick-and-mortar stores face a hard ultimatum: get smarter...