Checkout is where the decision becomes visible, the moment a customer confirms what has already been set in motion across inventory, pricing, availability, and routing. The systems around that moment were built to serve it, and for a long time that was enough. Those systems are being restructured. Businesses now configure how inventory moves, how platforms connect, and how actions are triggered well before any customer interaction occurs. By the time a purchase is executed, the outcome reflects decisions made across the entire operation, not at the point of sale. The transaction takes shape before any interaction at the point

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