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BNPL Meets Repair, An AI-Shaped Holiday, Tech ROI Analysis, And In-Store VTO

This week, Grace Robinson and Ben Hanson discuss Klarna’s repair partnership with Save Your Wardrobe, Adobe’s holiday shopping forecasts for AI and buy now, pay later, a16z’s findings on consumer and business AI adoption, L’Oréal’s market value and beauty’s relationship with technology, and Tesco’s in-store virtual try-on trial.
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AI Labs Keep Demoing The Weirdest Fashion Use Cases

The latest marketing push into always-on AI agents featured fashion, again. But the big labs keep showcasing brand-owners and professionals who seem to want to care less and delegate everything. The more useful promise is the ability to care more: freeing time and attention to improve the product.
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The Littlest Agentic Shopper

Accessible software, accessorise-able hardware, and an adorable mascot are the faces of the next coordinated push for a new kind of online selling. But the longer-term incentives have little to do with cuteness or consumer empowerment.
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All About AI: Felix Hoffmann of 7Learnings

7Learnings' CEO & Co-founder on why AI won't replace pricing analysts and merchandisers, but free them from optimising thousands of SKUs by hand so they can focus on the strategic calls that need human expertise.