Target has alienated Black-owned brands, founders say, as some startups vanish from its shelves

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In 2022, April Showers finally got her big retail break as her brand, Afro Unicorn, entered Target and Walmart.

Afro Unicorn is a licensed-character brand designed for women of color that sells hair-care products, books, apparel and more. For Showers, as a Black entrepreneur aiming to normalize Black beauty, getting into mainstream retail was a critical milestone.

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More AI agents won’t fix advertising

Oz Etzioni, CEO and co-founder, Clinch

AI has sparked a new level of optimism in advertising, with many hoping that autonomous agents will solve long-standing issues around speed, efficiency and performance.

But adding more agents is not the same as improving outcomes. In a fragmented system, more intelligence often creates more noise.

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