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How Groupe Dynamite’s CTO Uses Manhattan Tech to Scale Retail, AI, and Global Growth
Groupe Dynamite CTO David Stevens joins Manhattan to share how a modern retail tech partnership is helping the brand scale across North America and into the UK. In this conversation, Stevens explains how unified commerce, cloud-native POS, and AI-driven decision-making are transforming store operations, fulfilment, and customer experience.
Over the past few years, Groupe Dynamite has rolled out Manhattan’s point-of-sale and omni-channel capabilities across its store network, enabling always-on checkout, mobile POS, and endless-aisle functionality that helps associates “save the sale” and fulfil demand from anywhere in the network. The company has also built algorithms that plug into Manhattan’s platform to improve order fulfilment and reduce markdowns - delivering measurable impact on margins.
Stevens discusses pilots with RFID-enabled self-checkout, the importance of centralised data for real-time decision-making, and how AI is being used to drive revenue and personalisation rather than just cut costs. With a customer base heavily influenced by social media trends, the team is leveraging AI to analyse engagement patterns, demand signals, and inventory movement to respond faster to shifts in consumer behaviour.
The conversation also highlights the role of partnership. Stevens emphasises that beyond software functionality, responsive support and collaboration have been key to making the technology successful at scale. With expansion into the UK underway and new investments in social commerce and AI, Groupe Dynamite is positioning itself to move faster, serve customers better, and stay ahead in fast-fashion retail.
Topics covered:
Unified commerce and POS transformation
AI-driven personalisation and demand planning
Endless aisle and ship-from-store strategies
RFID self-checkout pilots
Retail data centralisation and real-time insights
The value of strong technology partnerships