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This chapter highlights three forces that will shape the future of retail: competition between big and small companies, increasing importance of environmental awareness, and algorithms learning to cooperate. This leads to the conclusion that tomorrow’s retailer will have to learn how to combine the numerical with the intuitive.
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Some people are very vocal on the subject; one such example is Nicholas Taleb who can be quoted comparing economists to practitioners of medieval medicine.
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Heraclitus of Ephesus to be specific.
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Kerkhove, LP. (2022). Conclusion. In: Data-driven Retailing. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12962-9_11
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