Retail gets smarter at the edge

Retail is entering a moment when the speed of a single interaction can shape the entire customer experience. Every second at the drive-through, the self-checkout, or the service counter matters. The practical way to win those seconds is to give the tools that drive success — AI-assisted ordering, computer-vision loss prevention, dynamic pricing and inventory management, and more — real-time inference close to where data is created. That means that retailers need to bring compute power into the store, running the right slice of compute locally while keeping cloud for what it does best.