Their demo stores are literally losing money...

Unsurprising when it can't even keep track of 2 employees.

"No one had been scheduled to open the doors and welcome customers on opening day, and the AI manager had to desperately start emailing around to see if anyone would be willing to show up at short notice."

https://chef.se/artiklar/ai-chefen-glomde-personalen

We're very explicit that this is for experimentation. Don't expect that every possible thing will work and be profitable.

Forget every possible thing. Has anything yet worked and been profitable?