{"id":179039,"date":"2026-01-16T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-takes-center-stage-at-nrf\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:20:11","slug":"ai-takes-center-stage-at-nrf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-takes-center-stage-at-nrf\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Takes Center Stage At NRF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jillstandish\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-takes-center-stage-at-nrf\/\">AI Takes Center Stage At NRF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jillstandish\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-takes-center-stage-at-nrf\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jillstandish\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-takes-center-stage-at-nrf\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-16 14:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Advancing AI in Retail<\/strong>: AI is transforming retail by influencing shopping habits, operational efficiencies, and employee roles. This transformation was prominently featured at the National Retail Federation&#8217;s (NRF) 2026 &#8216;Big Show.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Retail Stability Amidst Challenges<\/strong>: Despite various disruptions, the retail industry continues to provide stability for the economy and resilience during crises, supporting over 25% of American jobs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Shift to Advanced AI Systems<\/strong>: The show emphasized more sophisticated AI systems beyond early stages, focusing on automation for store management and e-commerce through collaborative efforts and integrating AI agents.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Emergence of Agentic Commerce<\/strong>: AI is evolving into an agentic commerce system that can predict outcomes and undertake complex multi-step actions throughout the customer shopping journey, exemplified by Salesforce\u2019s holiday season report.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Platforms for Decision Automation<\/strong>: Companies like Profitmind and Papa Johns showcased AI platforms automating decisions on pricing, inventory, and complex tasks using intelligent agents to increase efficiency and profitability.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Human-Centric Customer Experience<\/strong>: As AI becomes more prevalent, it highlights the necessity of retaining human touchpoints, like REI\u2019s trusted green vests, who bring experiential and personalized service to exceed customer expectations and boost engagement.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Focus on Execution and Scalability<\/strong>: The retail sector now emphasizes not just innovation but execution, scalability, and achieving tangible outcomes, making responsible technology investment and rethinking work processes crucial for success.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Takes Center Stage At NRF https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jillstandish\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-takes-center-stage-at-nrf\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-16 14:15:00 Source Domain: www.forbes.com Advancing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6601e87ccddb9c971d37ade5\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179039"}],"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=179039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179041,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179039\/revisions\/179041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}