The holiday season is upon us, and while kids may be dreaming of stockings stuffed with Labubus, electronics, and toys, their parents are more likely to be stressing over how to manage the gap in childcare. Holiday childcare gaps occur when school closures and reduced childcare availability leave working parents, especially hourly and shift-based employees, without reliable care during their working hours. These gaps often force parents to miss work altogether and lose out on income.
Rather than thinking about it solely as a job replacement tool, how do you think about reducing someone's workload by 50%? Can we now free a merchant up who's spending 50% of their time building spreadsheets, responding to emails, communicating with suppliers? If AI can take that task away, can you now take 50% of that merchant's time, and they can focus on sales-driving initiatives? That's what we're trying to understand.