{"id":175349,"date":"2026-01-07T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/ai-assistant-increased-customers-basket-size-by-10\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:30:11","slug":"ai-assistant-increased-customers-basket-size-by-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/ai-assistant-increased-customers-basket-size-by-10\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Assistant Increased Customers\u2019 Basket Size by 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/albertsons-says-ai-shopping-assistant-increased-customers-basket-size-10percent\/\">AI Assistant Increased Customers\u2019 Basket Size by 10%<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/albertsons-says-ai-shopping-assistant-increased-customers-basket-size-10percent\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/albertsons-says-ai-shopping-assistant-increased-customers-basket-size-10percent\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-07 13:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Albertsons Companies is leveraging deeper integration of data and artificial intelligence to drive a core transformation.<\/li>\n<li>The firm&#8217;s initiatives contributed to a 2.4% year-over-year growth in identical sales and a 21% growth in digital sales in fiscal Q3 2025.<\/li>\n<li>CEO Susan Morris emphasized that AI integration is embedded into various operational areas, such as merchandising, labor, and supply chain.<\/li>\n<li>AI tools like Ask AI and autonomous shopping assistants are boosting customer experience, basket size, repeat trips, and loyalty.<\/li>\n<li>Albertsons is leveraging AI for merchandising intelligence to optimize category management and drive margin improvement.<\/li>\n<li>Generative AI is being used to optimize labor forecasting and scheduling, enhancing productivity and customer service.<\/li>\n<li>AI demand forecasting has improved supply chain accuracy, fulfillment, quality, and on-shelf availability.<\/li>\n<li>The aim is for tech and AI initiatives to be scalable and enterprise-wide in delivering measurable impacts and preparing for future growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Assistant Increased Customers\u2019 Basket Size by 10% https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/albertsons-says-ai-shopping-assistant-increased-customers-basket-size-10percent\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-07 13:02:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Albertsons-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-175349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175351,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175349\/revisions\/175351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}