Industry — Retail
Brick-and-mortar and hybrid retail. Distinct from pure ecommerce by the presence of in-store touchpoints and POS-side activation requirements.
Dominant use cases. Loyalty programs (use-case.coupon-mobile-pos-sync), basket-recovery, in-store digital experience, omnichannel fulfilment.
Architectural implications. Cross-modality consistency is the dominant cost driver — concept.modality-complexity shows up immediately when web/mobile/POS must reconcile latency budgets.