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AI shopping agents
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podcast · 23/10/2026
Sainsbury's Wins the Weekly Shop, Walmart's AI Agents
Sainsbury's is winning back the weekly shop on price, while Walmart writes the rules for AI shopping agents that buy on a customer's behalf. Today's Decoding Retail also covers BRC confidence and shoplifting figures, Waitrose's first full-line supermarket in ei…
podcast · 22/10/2026
Why Walmart Is Letting AI Shopping Agents In
Walmart has opened its platform to third-party AI shopping agents, which means retailers now sell to machines as well as people. Today's briefing also covers UK inflation rising to 3.5%, Sainsbury's pulling SmartShop from more than 800 Local stores, Primark's first…
news · 07/10/2026
Al-Futtaim's One Commerce Backbone Is Built for Agentic Retail
Al-Futtaim runs around 30 digital storefronts from one shared commerce backbone. At NRF Europe, Eric Meulien explained how that architecture let the Dubai group scale without replatforming, and why product data, 15-minute delivery and AI shopping agents are now testing it.
podcast · 06/10/2026
TikTok Shop Goes Direct as Lidl Passes £13bn
TikTok is keeping checkout and customer data inside the app with Buy Direct, and TikTok Shop's UK sales are heading for close to €5 billion this year. Add retailers' very different rules on AI shopping agents, and today's Decoding Retail shows who is taking control…
podcast · 18/05/2026
Amazon vs Perplexity: The AI Retail Battle That Could Change Commerce
This week on World Retail Signals, the team explores one of the most important emerging battles in AI commerce: Amazon vs Perplexity and the future of autonomous AI shopping agents. The episode also covers: The changing expectations of the future retail workforce WHP Global’s …
podcast · 19/12/2025
APAC Retail: The $32B AI Agent Boom, TikTok Shop & Subscription Trends
Ngai Yuen Low (AEON) and Ryf Quail discuss the rise of AI shopping agents, how retailers can use "Wrapped" marketing, and the explosion of subscription retail in Asia. Ngai Yuen Low (Managing Director, AEON360) and Ryf Quail (Managing Director, Comexposium APAC) discuss why pr…