3 pieces on retail & commerce — practical workflows, case studies and field notes.
The headline tiers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity have all landed around twenty dollars a month. Here is how a small UK retailer should think about per-seat spend now the sticker price is commoditised.
Gemma 4 adds built-in tool calling and vision support, and Ollama now runs it fully. For a retail team, that means document, shelf and stock workflows that never send an image to the cloud.
An illustrative reconciliation scenario, grounded in reported UK retail AI pilots, shows how automating vendor mapping turns a dreaded finance chore into a background task — and what it saves.
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