{
  "id": 80180,
  "title": "The promise retailers keep breaking (and why the data is to blame)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/the-promise-retailers-keep-breaking-and-why-the-data-is-to-blame",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-03T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Retail Dive",
    "slug": "retail-dive",
    "url": "https://www.retaildive.com/spons/the-promise-retailers-keep-breaking-and-why-the-data-is-to-blame/825616/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Inventory distortion costs retail $1.77 trillion a year. The fix isn't more counting. It's better data.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}