What Makes a Sale? Rethinking End-to-End Seller--Buyer Retail Dynamics with LLM Agents

arXiv:2604.04468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating retail strategies before deployment is difficult, as outcomes are determined across multiple stages, from seller-side persuasion through buyer-seller interaction to purchase decisions. However, existing retail simulators capture only partial aspects of this process and do not model cross-stage dependencies, making it difficult to assess how early decisions affect downstream outcomes. We present RetailSim, an end-to-end retail simulation