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Want to Know What Consumers Think? Ask an AI-Generated Focus Group.

Synthetic consumer research, where AI is used to simulate shoppers, is emerging as a cutting-edge way for brands and retailers to better understand their customers and test everything from products to marketing campaigns before they launch.
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AI-generated consumer personas are giving retailers a new way to understand shoppers. (Pexels)

If you want to know whether Gen Z women in different income brackets would prefer one style of dress over another when shopping for a beach vacation, you could gather up women who fit the description and ask them.

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Marc Bain is News, Features and Reports Editor at The Business of Fashion. He is based in London and drives BoF’s coverage of technology and innovation, from startups to Big Tech.

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