As the first snow fell in November over Älmhult, the small Swedish town where IKEA was born in the 1940s, managers of the world's biggest furniture retailer from across the globe gathered for its annual summit on products, prices and priorities.

To address this, Amazon has expanded AI-driven search and discovery tools that move beyond keyword matching to interpret customer intent, using signals such as reviews, price sensitivity, delivery speed, return rates and prior browsing behavior.

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