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5% -- ai roi realization rate for Retailers (2026)
Only 5% of retailers report clear, scalable ROI from AI experimentation.
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5%
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Data Vintage
2026
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B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Voyado
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Tier B
https://voyado.com/resources/blog/making-ai-work-inside-retail-organizations/ ↗
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Making AI work inside retail organizations - Voyado
According to Voyado’s State of AI in retail report, 95% of retailers are already experimenting with AI. They’re testing tools, exploring use cases, prompting, automating, building, and trying to understand where the technology fits. And yet, only 5% report clear, scalable ROI. That’s more of a caver…
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Voyado State of AI in retail report
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Retailers: 5% ai roi realization rate. Source: Voyado (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/retailers-clear-scalable-ai-roi-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/retailers-clear-scalable-ai-roi-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>5%</strong> -- ai roi realization rate for Retailers<br><small>Source: Voyado (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/retailers-clear-scalable-ai-roi-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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