E-Commerce
Google set to launch a Universal Cart, takes agentic shopping to YouTube
Google’s Universal Cart can make multi-item, multi-merchant shopping journeys possible.
Vidhi is a reporter for Retail Brew covering e-commerce and retail media. She was previously a senior reporter at Digiday's Modern Retail. Her work has also been published in TheStreet, Forbes, Nikkei Asia and TheCity. Vidhi has a master's degree in business and economics journalism from Columbia Journalism School.
E-Commerce
How Rezolve AI is trying to build the future of agentic shopping
Rezolve AI is trying to fix online shopping with its Brain Suite of tools, using AI that understands what a customer actually means rather than just matching keywords.
E-Commerce
Why agentic shopping adoption remains low despite the hype
OpenAI may have moved too fast with its instant checkout feature, but that doesn’t mean it was a failure.
E-Commerce
Shopify shoppers bought outdoorsy items in April
People purchased wagons, grass edgers, dog houses as well as pool shirts and water slides.
E-Commerce
Etsy launches ChatGPT app, tests AI search agent to help with gifting
Chief Product and Technology Officer Rafe Colburn says Etsy is also experimenting with its own conversational gifting agent.
Marketing
Best Buy adds rewards to its loyalty programs to lure shoppers
Plus and Total members can earn 1% back on certain items and 6% back in rewards when they use the Best Buy credit card, the company said.
E-Commerce
Whatnot adds Shopify plug-in to grow liveshopping
Shopify sellers can now auto sync their products, inventory, and orders on live shopping platform Whatnot.
E-Commerce
AI is reinventing retail media, but it continues to grow: Criteo exec
Criteo is testing and learning with different types of ad formats, like Page Intelligence, that can support conversational commerce.
E-Commerce
How is AI showing up in retail stores?
People will find AI across digital touch screens, other times in audio summaries plus behind the scenes in inventory management tools.
Stores
The state of stores
Even in the age of AI, retailers continue to bet big on brick and mortar.