<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mercantir — Blog</title><description>Mercantir is an open retail operating system built on Open Mercato: orders, stock, customers and product knowledge in one place, structured so agents can query it.</description><link>https://mercantir.com</link><language>en</language><item><title>One question, four systems</title><link>https://mercantir.com/blog/one-question-four-systems</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mercantir.com/blog/one-question-four-systems</guid><description>Can I sell this, where is it, and when does it arrive. It is the most common question in retail and almost no retailer can answer it in one place.
</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>stock accuracy</category><category>order management</category><category>integration</category><category>availability</category></item><item><title>Your product data was written for a page, not for a question</title><link>https://mercantir.com/blog/product-data-written-for-a-page</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mercantir.com/blog/product-data-written-for-a-page</guid><description>Catalogue copy is optimised to be scrolled past. Ask it something specific and there is nothing structured underneath to answer from.
</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>product data</category><category>catalogue</category><category>structured data</category><category>search</category></item><item><title>What agentic commerce actually needs before it can work</title><link>https://mercantir.com/blog/what-agentic-commerce-actually-needs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mercantir.com/blog/what-agentic-commerce-actually-needs</guid><description>Five unsolved problems sit between a model that can shop and a machine that can buy. Most of what is announced today is a chatbot in front of a normal checkout.
</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agentic commerce</category><category>A2A</category><category>standards</category><category>payments</category></item><item><title>Returns are the part of retail nobody models</title><link>https://mercantir.com/blog/returns-are-the-part-nobody-models</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mercantir.com/blog/returns-are-the-part-nobody-models</guid><description>Every system is designed around goods going out. Goods coming back touch stock, finance, the customer record and somebody&apos;s patience, and usually live in a spreadsheet.
</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>returns</category><category>reverse logistics</category><category>stock</category><category>customer record</category></item><item><title>The storefront was never the moat</title><link>https://mercantir.com/blog/the-storefront-is-not-the-moat</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mercantir.com/blog/the-storefront-is-not-the-moat</guid><description>Most retail software budget goes to the shop layer, which is the most commoditised part of the business and the easiest for a competitor to match.
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