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Category Management

Agentic AI for Retail: Lessons From the Anthropic Founder's Playbook

What an AI-native startup playbook actually means when your users are buyers, merchandisers, and pricing teams.

28 May 2026

News & Press

Swiss Retail Day: Zenline presents AI Agents in Retail

What does it take to build a shop-worthy assortment in 2025? Here is what Arber told the room at Swiss Retail Day.

19 May 2026

Case Studies

Case Study Furniture: Recovering Gross Margin Through Early Velocity Signals

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.

27 April 2026

Case Studies

Case Study Grocery: Private Label Mix Optimisation in Dairy

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

27 April 2026

Case Studies

Case Study Fashion: Fixing Markdowns Through Assortment Design

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.

27 April 2026

Retail Insights

The Hidden Cost of Digital Growth: Why Assortment Data Is the Missing Link

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:

01 April 2026

Retail Insights

What Walmart's Q4 Results Tell Us About the Future of Assortment

Walmart itself has highlighted as evidence that AI-assisted discovery is already converting into measurable commercial outcomes.

20 February 2026

Retail Insights

The Grocery AI Race btw. EDEKA and REWE & What It Tells Us

For retail executives, the more useful takeaway: The translation layer, from customer data to assortment quality to commercial outcome, is where ...

09 February 2026

Retail Insights

Why 40% of Merchant Time Is Wasted & What That Means

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).

14 January 2026