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 "title": "Can a Digital Product Passport Replace a Retailer Product Feed?",
 "description": "No. Governed DPP-style data can supply reusable product facts, but retailer feeds still need channel-specific price, availability, content and fulfilment state.",
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 "direct_answer": "No. Governed DPP-style product data can become a reusable source for identity and product attributes, but a retailer or commerce feed is still a channel-specific execution contract.",
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  {
   "url": "https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7052112?hl=en-GB",
   "name": "Google Merchant Center, Product data specification: used for current requirements around price, availability and product identifiers. It does not establish DPP-specific integration."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://help.pinterest.com/en/business/article/before-you-get-started-with-catalogs",
   "name": "Pinterest Business, Get started with retail catalogues: used for required catalogue content and offer fields plus accepted structured attributes. It does not represent every marketplace."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/custom-data/metafields/category-metafields",
   "name": "Shopify Help Center, Category metafields: used for current structured category attributes. It does not establish automatic DPP mapping."
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  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#granularity",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#gs1",
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