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  "id": 265129,
  "title": "Retailers Tap AI Shopping Traffic but Fight to Keep Customer Data",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/retailers-tap-ai-shopping-traffic-but-fight-to-keep-customer-data-265129",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-07T12:15:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business of Fashion",
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    "url": "https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/retail/retailers-tap-ai-shopping-traffic-but-fight-to-keep-customer-data/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "As shoppers increasingly turn to ChatGPT and Google's Gemini for product recommendations, retailers are racing to appear in chatbot results while resisting efforts to cede customer data that underpin online sales.",
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        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Retailers tap AI shopping traffic but fight to keep customer data",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/retailers-tap-ai-shopping-traffic-but-fight-to-keep-customer-data-263092",
        "published": "2026-08-07T10:07:50.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "Retailers tap AI shopping traffic but fight to keep customer data",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/retailers-tap-ai-shopping-traffic-but-fight-to-keep-customer-data",
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