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The AI Strategy that Drove Five Below’s 19.5% Sales Jump

The AI Strategy That Drive Five Below's 19.5% Sales Jump

Here’s what we’ve noticed working with businesses trying to implement AI: everyone wants to jump straight to the cool stuff. Machine learning models, predictive analytics, chatbots, agents – you name it. Five Below took a different approach and started with a simple question: “What’s actually broken in our business that AI might fix?” This question led them to something less cool than a bot, but critical – inventory management. Not the flashiest use case, but it was costing them real money every single day.