Hershey is using AI to strategize for s’mores season
The Hershey Company has started using new AI tools to maximize sales performance of s'mores ingredients in stores — including its own chocolates, as well as marshmallows and graham crackers.
The Hershey Company has started using new AI tools to maximize sales performance of s'mores ingredients in stores — including its own chocolates, as well as marshmallows and graham crackers.
The card
- Industry: Varejo e consumo — Tiendas, comercio electrónico y marcas: demanda, surtido y experiencia.
- Source: Modern Retail
- Published: 23/08/2026
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How I read this case
In retail, AI is sold as personalisation and almost always paid for in inventory. What moves the result is not better recommendations: it is forecasting demand with less error and getting that number to the buyer in time. A case that only talks about experience rarely changed the margin.
The three questions
- Whether the gain shows in margin and stockouts, or only in clicks.
- How fast it recalculates when demand shifts overnight.
- Whether the store and the digital channel share the same number.
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