Retailers around the world are looking for ways to optimize their businesses through artificial intelligence (AI). From international behemoths like Amazon, to local mom-and-pop operations, retail leaders are increasingly recognizing that their survival depends on their ability to adopt new frameworks for automation. In AI for Retail, technology CEO and AI researcher Francois Chaubard provides a hands-on guide for integrating AI into your brick-and-mortar retail business. Chaubard has spent the last 14 years building AI systems in applications like self-driving cars and missile defense systems, and shows how to apply those same AI principles to retail. Chaubard explores how to use AI in everything from customer service to warehouse optimization and demonstrates how to craft and implement a big-picture AI strategy across your entire business. You'll learn AI basics, including critical terminology and fundamental AI applications in retail, as well as how to use AI and deep learning for checkout, automated inventory, pricing, loss prevention, demand forecasting and planning, and e-commerce. AI for Retail offers key takeaways for retail executives and those responsible for deploying intelligent automation at every level of a retail company. Relevant and exciting real-world case studies illuminate and highlight the concepts discussed in the book, showing you how leaders have deployed the author's frameworks with great success. AI for Retail is the practical blueprint for retail AI adoption that executives, board members, managers, retail business founders, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders have been waiting for.