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Focus on AI
Early AI shopping data shows a shorter funnel with higher conversion
Great news for brands today. But new economics are coming.
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Focus on AI
Claude is getting consumers to spend real money on AI
ChatGPT and Claude look like the same product. They’re becoming very different businesses.
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Executive Briefing
Recalibrating for retail
The lessons behind Acid League’s new ‘Shortcut’ sauces. Plus: Chipotle on Ozempic, Sweetgreen’s new plates, and a coffee experience I’ll never forget.
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Executive Briefing
Cava gets it done with a big IPO
For all the decades of excitement around Chipotle-for-
x
concepts, few have made it this far.
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Executive Briefing
What momentum looks like
Also: Chase is buying The Infatuation. And an update on Blue Bottle’s oat-milk-by-default experiment.
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Executive Briefing
Blue Bottle is testing oat milk ‘as the default option’
Also: Lunch is back! And more of Chipotle’s reopening takeaways.
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What happens to sustainability and ‘clean’ consumption after all this?
Covid-19 has changed how and what what we buy. Will it change why we buy?
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Executive Briefing
Dean & DeLuca, City Bakery, and Barneys are alive — in Tokyo
Plus: What “cyber week” says about us.
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