Beyond just knowing it'll rain: The next wave of retail innovation lies in AI that not only predicts weather's sales impact but acts on it autonomously.
Thanks Paul, true - we are moving from simply reacting to the weather to proactively shaping business decisions around what we expect. AI's reliability may improve our predictive ability AND it is limited by the basis of its data platform. My hope is we have actual local-ground-instrumentation data integrated into the models/analogs/AI formulas to lift us to the most reliable position.
Thanks Paul, true - we are moving from simply reacting to the weather to proactively shaping business decisions around what we expect. AI's reliability may improve our predictive ability AND it is limited by the basis of its data platform. My hope is we have actual local-ground-instrumentation data integrated into the models/analogs/AI formulas to lift us to the most reliable position.