AI for Bike Shops 2026: Lightspeed X vs Ascend Tested
AI for bike shops in 2026: we tested Lightspeed X vs Ascend against real shop workflows to see what actually cuts labor and shrink — and what's just another...
Chapter 1: The 2026 Bike Shop Squeeze: Why AI Moved From Toy to Line Item If you own a bike shop in 2026, you already know the story in your bones. The boom is four years gone. The hangover is still on the balance sheet. And the tools that were supposed to save you — the POS, the ordering portal, the seven vendor B2B logins — mostly just moved the work around instead of removing it. This guide is about one narrow, unglamorous question: does AI actually take work off your floor and margin off your shrink, or is it...