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AI probably has some uses for retail. A much more realistic potential magic bullet here as I discovered when reporting on Finland’s massive grocery coop (50% market share) was no need for profit prospect.org/2023/10/11/2...

prospect.orgThe Cooperative That Could - The American ProspectHow S Group became Finland’s most dominant retailer

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social

This will make some folks mad :). The best way for these grocery stores to work is if they use AI to get an edge over private grocery stores. AI is the one way for the state government to out perform private enterprises.

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper.com

all else aside, if we grant for the sake of argument that AI is real good for food retail, there is nothing stopping the private sector from picking it up too. obviously

25/5/26, 11:19 pm1 repost83 likes

Tim Stoltzfus

@morefuntim.bsky.social

25 May

Been reading the Prospect too long, cause my immediate response to that post was "Yeah, just go ahead and ban surveillance pricing entirely." :)

Hellum Dander

@kellumdander.bsky.social

26 May

how will the private sector compete when all the data centers are owned by the government this is sarcasm, ofc

Hellum Dander

@kellumdander.bsky.social

26 May

my personal opinion is that data centers *should be* nationalized tho so maybe my question holds

Fat Apollo, baby!

@fatapollo.myatproto.social

25 May

Or, hear me out... www.reuters.com/business/sta...

reuters.comExclusive: Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North AmericaStarbucks terminated an AI program workers used for automating certain inventory counts this week, nine months after deploying it across its North American ‌stores, according to an internal newsletter...

Thomas Lewis

@tlewis.bsky.social

25 May

Yeah. If the private sector isn’t/will not be using AI that would stand to reason they don’t view it as good for business and therefore it would be a mistake by the public sector to adopt it. There’s no way the argument makes sense in any direction..