Academy Sports + Outdoors

Kroger and Target made AI hires, Walmart added a tool for advertisers, and Academy Sports + Outdoors launched Academy Retail Media, a new advertising business with Instacart that gives marketers acces…

Academy Sports + Outdoors CIO Sumit Anand said the retailer is using a cross-functional AI council and agent-based tools to drive growth, improve customer experience, and accelerate decision-making, t…