From Wall St Journal: “Michael Buchanan has held numerous jobs in his 15 years at Levi Strauss & Co., starting as a stock clerk and rising to store manager. At the end of May, he will add a new title to his résumé: data scientist. Mr. Buchanan is one of 43 Levi’s employees enrolled in the San Francisco company’s machine learning bootcamp…For retailing, artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing an outsize role as more shopping shifts online. Walmart Inc., Macy’s Inc. and Target Corp. are among the big retailers that will update investors on their operations this week, giving a snapshot not just on how much consumers are spending this spring but also on how they are finding workers in a revamped labor market.”
