Retail
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All signals →Fortune: J. Crew put an AI styling assistant on its website; its CIO says a designer prototyped it before engineers joined
Fortune's John Kell reports J. Crew launched Style Advisor on its desktop site on 11 November, running on several Anthropic models. CIO Danielle Schmelkin says a digital product designer built the working prototype, that a monitoring layer tracks model cost, and that an AI fluency programme and internal lab are open to all corporate staff. No cost, conversion or usage figure is given.
Why it matters A retailer's customer-facing tool that started outside engineering; marketing and e-commerce leads weighing one should ask what J. Crew has not said: cost per conversation and what it does to conversion.
CX Dive: Gartner finds 13% of consumers will use AI for holiday gift ideas, and they consult more sources, not fewer
CX Dive reports Gartner found 13% of consumers plan to use AI for holiday gift inspiration, and that those who do use about 4.5 sources against 3.2 for those who do not. A Bain survey it cites puts 25% starting their shopping on AI platforms, up from 17% last year. Gartner's Emily Weiss says shoppers do not want AI to make the purchase. No sample sizes given.
Why it matters For e-commerce and support leads: AI is sending better-informed shoppers to your own site, so the fix this season is fewer steps to checkout, such as no forced login, rather than an agent that buys.