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Can AI Predict What Shoppers Will Buy?

One of the technology’s great promises is to let retailers make far more accurate forecasts about how much to produce, down to the level of size and colour. But knowing what consumers will want months in advance isn’t so simple.
Mannequins stand in the foreground of a photograph of a store interior.
Retailers need to predict what products shoppers will want. (Shutterstock)

Of the services that Sparkbox, an AI-centric retail planning platform, offers to customers, one seeing demand uses AI to

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Marc Bain
Marc Bain

Marc Bain is Technology Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. He is based in New York and drives BoF’s coverage of technology and innovation, from start-ups to Big Tech.

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