{"id":1046818,"date":"2026-11-04T07:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046818"},"modified":"2026-11-04T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:50:49","slug":"retailer-zalando-launches-ai-shopping-agent-as-margins-squeezed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/04\/retailer-zalando-launches-ai-shopping-agent-as-margins-squeezed\/","title":{"rendered":"Retailer Zalando launches AI shopping agent as margins squeezed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top European online fashion retailer Zalando on Tuesday launched its first AI shopping agent amid concerns that artificial intelligence could disrupt online retail, after reporting third-quarter gross margin below market expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in the German company fell 5% in early trading.<\/p>\n<p>Zalando reported a gross profit margin of 38.7% in the quarter, missing expectations partly due to investments, analysts at Jefferies and JPMorgan said in notes to clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top European online fashion retailer Zalando on Tuesday launched its first AI shopping agent amid concerns that artificial intelligence could disrupt online retail, after reporting third-quarter gross margin below market expectations. Shares in the German company fell 5% in early trading. Zalando reported a gross profit margin of 38.7% in the quarter, missing expectations partly due to investments, analysts at Jefferies and JPMorgan said in notes to clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046841,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046818\/revisions\/1046841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}