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Ten Million Against Thirty-Six Thousand
Grocers keep funding customer-facing AI and skipping the shrink fix. The math says that's backwards, and it's not close.
Sep 3
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Curt Prins
Your Chatbot Sucks
AI already works well enough to ship. It also gets things wrong often enough that most retailers haven't earned the trust to use it on the hard stuff.
Sep 2
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Curt Prins
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August 2026
The 95% Graveyard
Why grocery boards keep funding AI pilots that never touch the P&L.
Aug 21
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Curt Prins
The AI Mass Adoption Mismatch
Silicon Valley is still clueless about who’s in the grocery aisle.
Aug 20
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Curt Prins
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The Marketplace Trap
Grocers Are Renting & Losing Their Own Customers
Aug 14
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Curt Prins
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Why the Grocery List Is eCommerce's Holy Grail (and all of them suck)
Your grocery app has your entire purchase history and still cold-starts every session like it's never met you. Here's what's broken, and what the fix…
Aug 6
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Curt Prins
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$4.75, Already Applied
The Sunday circular treats every shopper the same. Your loyalty data knows better. That gap is where unit volume goes.
Aug 4
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Curt Prins
July 2026
You Fixed the Wrong Friction
The unit volume problem isn't at the register. It's in the three moments before shoppers ever gets there.
Jul 30
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Curt Prins
The Partnerships You Haven't Made Yet
Three partnerships most grocers have ignored, and one window that's closing fast.
Jul 30
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Curt Prins
Your Tools Are Teaching Shoppers to Spend Less
How mission builders, smarter sequencing, and a Thursday cart can stop the bleed.
Jul 28
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Curt Prins
The Unit Problem
The accounting looks fine. The volume story doesn't.
Jul 27
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Curt Prins
Instacart Just Bought a 600,000-Person Shelf Scanner
Why their latest acquisition is less about delivery and more about owning your store's data.
Jul 17
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Curt Prins
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