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What does it take to build a shop-worthy assortment in 2025? Here is what Arber told the room at Swiss Retail Day.
The retailer deployed Zenline's Margin Agent across its living room and bedroom categories, approximately 3,200 SKUs, to run continuous velocity monitoring against category-adjusted benchmarks.
Zenline's Substitutes Agent analysed the full dairy range, approximately 1,400 active SKUs, to build a complete national brand / private label equivalence map based on the attributes that actually drive shopper substitutability
Most markdown problems aren't a demand problem, they're an overlap problem. How one European retailer turned pre-season planning into a precision allocation decision.
Albertsons Companies reported a gross margin rate of 27.4% in Q3 fiscal 2025. The company's reporting attributed the compression to two primary factors:
Walmart itself has highlighted as evidence that AI-assisted discovery is already converting into measurable commercial outcomes.
For retail executives, the more useful takeaway: The translation layer, from customer data to assortment quality to commercial outcome, is where ...
Retail traditionally used to move in seasons. That cadence made sense a few years ago, but the internet has moved on, and so has the market (& competitors).
A category manager responsible for 3,000 SKUs cannot run this analysis manually and continuously. AI Agents can & will improve margin with that significantly.
