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Your Static Returns Policy is Losing E-Commerce Peak Season Sales in the AI Commerce Era

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Accessible Image Meta Description and Summary An AI eye icon monitors a supply chain, depicted as a blue chain. One link shatters in red, symbolizing a carrier failure, as performance data like "On time 22%" appears. This illustrates the article's core theme: AI has real-time visibility into carrier performance, and a single failure is visible and damages brand trust. Article Summary: In the era of AI Commerce, AI shopping agents rank brands using verifiable performance data ("Trust Signals"). The article explains how a carrier failure is now seen as a brand failure, damaging algorithmic rankings. It outlines the solution: a real-time, AI-driven carrier scorecard to proactively monitor performance, dynamically route shipments, and protect brand reputation and revenue.
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