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Retail

Retail businesses of every kind sell across shops, websites and apps. MasterDB lets each one publish its own current data, so AI systems answer from the business rather than from an old page.

Fashion and clothingGrocery storesElectronicsHomewareHealth and beautySports and toysIndependent shopsChains and department stores

An AI answer about your shop should come from your shop.

YOUR PUBLISHED CATALOGUEUpdated as often as you send it. No limit, no cost.
Every line you sell, published and kept current, whatever the category.

What AI gets wrong

Four failures you can stop

Stock answers that are out of date

An AI can tell a shopper an item is available when the last one sold that morning, because it is reading a page that was cached days ago.

Prices that no longer apply

Promotions start and end quickly in retail, and an AI quoting last week's offer sends a shopper to the till expecting something the business no longer runs.

Wrong opening hours per store

A chain with many branches has different hours for each one, and an AI often gives the head office hours or a holiday timetable that has already passed.

Returns terms invented by AI

When an AI cannot find a shop's written returns policy, it describes what shops usually do, and staff are left arguing with a customer at the counter.

What you publish

Six things worth publishing first

All of it is free to publish, and none of it has a limit on how often you change it.

  • Product catalogue

    Every product, with variants, sizes and colours, described by the business itself.

  • Prices and availability

    Current prices and stock, updated as often as the business chooses, per product and per store.

  • Stores and opening hours

    Each branch with its address, its own hours, and its seasonal and holiday changes.

  • Delivery and returns terms

    The actual written terms for delivery, collection, returns and exchanges.

  • News and offers

    Store openings, seasonal ranges and promotions, published as they start and end.

  • Instructions to AIs

    Written guidance on how the business wants its products and brand described.

Do they have it in stock, and what does it cost?WITHOUT MASTERDBRunning shoes, size 9Pricelast published priceStockshown as availableReturnsold policy wordingAssembled from cached pagesNobody asked the businessWITH MASTERDBRunning shoes, size 9Priceas published todayStocklive availabilityReturnsyour current termsPublished by the businessRetrieved at the moment of asking
The same question, answered from cached pages and answered from your published record.

What changes

Three things that stop going wrong

01

Answers match the shelf

A shopper asking an AI about a product gets the price and availability the business published, not a guess taken from an old page.

02

Each branch stands on its own

Hours, stock and contact details are correct for the specific store a shopper asked about, not for the chain as a whole.

03

Fewer wasted journeys

Customers arrive knowing the shop is open and the item is there, so staff spend less time correcting information the business never published.

This page is for retail businesses of any size, from a single independent shop to a national chain. Publishing to AI is completely free. Advertising and promoting what you publish are optional paid choices. MasterDB is opening to early access.

Ensure AI users receive accurate authorised information about your business, your brand and your products & services.

MasterDB opens to a closed group of businesses first. Publishing is completely free. Apply now and we will be in touch with your access.