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Everseen Joe White

The Hidden Cost of ‘Nearly Usable’ Data in Retail

I have spent 25 years digitizing the physical world, from barcodes and RFID to automation systems, helping enterprise…

Executive Viewpoints May 28
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Why Retail’s AI Fraud Problem Starts at the Identity Layer

Retail has always attracted fraud, but what’s happening now is different in both scale and sophistication. 69% of…

Executive Viewpoints May 27
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AI Commerce Depends on Open, Foundational Location Data

The shift toward autonomous AI shopping agents is accelerating, moving agentic commerce from an experimental concept to an…

Executive Viewpoints May 25
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Backroom Problems Hiding in Plain Sight

Walk the backroom of almost any grocery store, and you will find the same thing: shelves stuffed with…

Executive Viewpoints May 21
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Is Your Data Ready for the Era of AI-Powered Search?

Data requirements for being found by an agentic commerce search go far beyond having the right basic product…

Features May 19
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The Invisible Bias Problem in AI Consumer Research

A startup ran the same question through a synthetic panel and a real consumer sample: “What would you…

Executive Viewpoints May 15
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Convenience vs. Discovery: How AI-Powered Shopping will Impact Brick-and-Mortar Retail

People thinking about the impact of agentic AI in retail focus, quite naturally, on how the digital shopper…

Features May 14
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When the Whole Customer Journey Happens Inside the LLM

In 2026, your best customer might never visit your website. They’ll ask an assistant a question, compare options,…

Executive Viewpoints May 12
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How Floral Wholesaler Fantasy Farms Meets Mother’s Day Demand

Florists and floral wholesalers face unique pressures in the lead-up to peak periods such as Mother’s Day and…

Features May 6
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