Sources: Starbucks shut down an AI program for automating inventory counts, nine months after deploying it, after it frequently miscounted and mislabeled items (Waylon Cunningham/Reuters)
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May 21, 2026
Waylon Cunningham / Reuters: Sources: Starbucks shut down an AI program for automating inventory counts, nine months after deploying it, after it frequently miscounted and mislabeled items — Starbucks (SBUX.O) terminated an AI program workers used for automating certain inventory counts this week …
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