pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Most companies haven't sussed out the online game yet. They just feel the balance sheet squeeze, but don't see the way out. They just keep postponing the decision while slowly bleeding cash. And a publicly owned companies are run by committee, in which nobody has relevant experience.
Basically AI is democratizing capitalism, at least for those that jump on the train early. Instead of one company dangerously locking huge amount of capital in inventory, that company gets thousands of small businesses to pay for the stock, while aggregator company deals with payments and logistics.
I remember when optical character recognition was new and was suitably impressed. I've now seen retail apps that include object recognition - use your smartphone camera to scan something, watch it noodle around with vectors and then comparing it to the store's inventory. Imperfect, slow for now but when you take the time to understand what it's doing it's pretty cool.