* Artificial Intelligence in this statistic refers to the use of algorithms, machine learning and deep learning technologies.
** UK retailers with an annual turnover of more than 50 million GBP; in c-suite and management roles in bricks and mortar (15%), E-commerce (23%), and multichannel (62%) businesses.
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Artificial Intelligence: areas of investment by UK retailers in 2019
Leading retailers in the United Kingdom have their priorities sorted when it comes to introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in their organizations. The leading AI-related area retailers were planning to invest in was e-commerce, as stated by ** percent of respondents to the survey at hand. Supply chain-related units such as stock management and warehousing robotics ranked rather low with less than ** percent of retailers planning to invest in AI technologies across these divisions.
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