MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE:  How AI Is Changing Retail Operations and Store Execution

June 17th, 2026, 2PM to 3PM


Virtual


Description

Your team already has the dashboards, the reports, and the data. The problem isn't access - it's that the operational issues that matter most, buried inside all of it, spread across systems, and slow to surface.

Join us for a practical 30-minute session on how AI is changing the way fashion retailers find performance issues, understand what's driving them, and move from insight to action - faster, and with less analytical effort.

WHAT WE'LL COVER

  • Why the most valuable operational detail stays hidden, and what it costs you
  • What AI does well in retail operations - and where it breaks down
  • Why connected, structured data is the foundation that makes AI genuinely useful
  • A live demo: from a single Store Score to AI-driven analysis to action tasked to the right person

YOU'LL SEE HOW TO ANSWER QUESTIONS LIKE

  • Which stores are drifting on labour, margin, or conversion before it shows up in sales?
  • Where are inventory gaps quietly limiting what you could sell?
  • Is next week's staffing plan actually aligned with expected demand?

The goal isn't another report. It's a faster path from signal to action.


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Retail operations leaders, store and field operations teams, merchandise planners, analysts, finance teams, and executives at Canadian apparel retailers.

 

REGISTER NOW, space is limited.

 

ABOUT THE RETAIL SCORE

The Retail Score (tRS) is a retail intelligence platform purpose-built for fashion, apparel, footwear, and accessories brands. We help retailers transform fragmented data from ERP, ecommerce, wholesale, retail stores, inventory, returns, marketing, and finance systems into a single, trusted source of operational truth.
 
Fashion businesses face a unique set of challenges: high SKU counts, seasonal product lifecycles, multiple sales channels, inventory risk, markdown pressure, returns, and rapidly changing consumer demand. Generic reporting tools often struggle to address these complexities because they were not designed around the way apparel businesses operate.
Originally developed by a fashion retailer for fashion retailers, tRS combines a retail-specific data warehouse, automated reporting, advanced analytics, and AI-driven insights within a unified retail data model. The platform helps merchandise planners, finance teams, retail operations leaders, and executives spend less time reconciling data and more time making confident decisions about demand, inventory, margin, assortment, pricing, and growth.
 
tRS has earned the trust of leading fashion and apparel retailers, including Zimmermann, Sussan, Cue, Macpac, and Brand Collective.
 
What differentiates tRS is its deep foundation in retail. The company was founded by a fashion retailer and built by a team with extensive experience across apparel retailing, wholesale operations, merchandise planning, retail technology, and analytics.
 
Having lived the challenges of managing seasonal assortments, inventory investment, multiple sales channels, markdowns, and margin performance, the team designed tRS around the realities of how apparel businesses operate—not around generic reporting requirements.
 
Today, The Retail Score is bringing its proven approach to helping apparel brands unlock the full value of their data, improve productivity, and make faster, more profitable decisions to the Canadian market.
 
 
 

Featured Speakers

Speaker: Wayne Rigney
Speaker Wayne Rigney
Co-Founder and CEO of The Retail Score (tRS), a retail analytics, planning, and AI platform used by leading retailers and wholesalers globally. With more than a 3 decades of experience helping retailers transform data into operational intelligence, Wayne has worked with brands across apparel, footwear, lifestyle, and specialty retail to improve …

Co-Founder and CEO of The Retail Score (tRS), a retail analytics, planning, and AI platform used by leading retailers and wholesalers globally. With more than a 3 decades of experience helping retailers transform data into operational intelligence, Wayne has worked with brands across apparel, footwear, lifestyle, and specialty retail to improve performance through better visibility, planning, and decision-making. He is also a co-owner of Zjoosh, a successful Australian fashion and lifestyle retail brand, giving him a unique perspective as both a retail technology leader and an active retail operator.

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