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AI dominated the buzz at Shoptalk Spring
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Vidhi is a reporter for Retail Brew covering e-commerce and retail media. She was previously a senior reporter at Digiday's Modern Retail. Her work has also been published in TheStreet, Forbes, Nikkei Asia and TheCity. Vidhi has a master's degree in business and economics journalism from Columbia Journalism School.
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