Walton's Weekly Wramblings

The Death of Optimization-First Retail: Four Lessons from NRF 2026


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Tariffs reshaping supply chains. AI's hallucination problem exposed. Just-in-time dead, just in-case case reborn. Warehouse clubs dominating omnichannel. Four major themes. Twenty executive interviews. These were just some of my lessons learned from NRF 2026.

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