https://www.tylerwells.dev/tags/retail/Recent content in Retail on Tyler WellsHugoen-usThu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tylerwells.dev/posts/ozark-ridge-post-4-lessons-learned/Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tylerwells.dev/posts/ozark-ridge-post-4-lessons-learned/[Retail AI Series 4/4] What worked, what didn't, what I'd do differently in v2, and why this project matters for e-commerce AI.https://www.tylerwells.dev/posts/ozark-ridge-post-3-ai-assistant/Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tylerwells.dev/posts/ozark-ridge-post-3-ai-assistant/[Retail AI Series 3/4] How to build a Rufus-style AI assistant that answers product questions, suggests complementary gear, and builds camping loadouts — with conversation history, context injection, and dynamic retrieval.https://www.tylerwells.dev/posts/ozark-ridge-post-2-keyword-vs-semantic/Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tylerwells.dev/posts/ozark-ridge-post-2-keyword-vs-semantic/[Retail AI Series 2/4] Side-by-side comparison of keyword and semantic search, why keyword search fails on natural language queries, and what the retrieval scores actually tell you.https://www.tylerwells.dev/posts/ozark-ridge-post-1-stack/Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tylerwells.dev/posts/ozark-ridge-post-1-stack/[Retail AI Series 1/4] Building a mock outdoor retail site with AI-powered product search and a Rufus-style assistant. This post covers the architecture, stack decisions, the indexing pipeline, and why RAG matters for e-commerce.https://www.tylerwells.dev/posts/retail-power-automate-workflow/Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tylerwells.dev/posts/retail-power-automate-workflow/Eliminate costs tied to repetitive corporate tasks with simple workflows like this -- a Microsoft Form + a Power Automate flow + an AI prompt