AI retail tech firm Deeping Source said on Monday it will move to full commercial rollout of an autonomous store operations system in 2026.

The company said it is focusing on minimising operators’ everyday decision-making burden with a system that goes beyond simple data analysis, with AI proposing execution plans and linking them to automatic implementation.

The company said offline store operations still depend heavily on operators’ experience and intuition. Daily decisions are repeated every day, including which products to display where and when to replenish inventory, and even skilled operators find it difficult to always make the best judgment. Deeping Source is focusing on solving the problem with an AI autonomous operations system.

The company said verification results have also emerged. It said a display optimisation test for the health functional drinks category at a convenience store in South Korea showed weekly sales of low-performing products rose 92 percent.

Kim Tae-hoon (김태훈), Deeping Source's chief executive, said, "Based on data and AI capabilities accumulated across hundreds of stores at home and abroad over the past several years, we will fully commercialise a store operations structure in 2026 in which execution naturally follows without operators having to 고민 each time." He added, "The goal is an autonomous operations system where store owners set only the broad direction, and AI handles day-to-day operational optimisation."