Agentic commerce

Coverage

• podcast · 23 Oct 2026 · Trade press · primary theme

  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 Oct 2026 · Trade press · primary theme

  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 · 7 Oct 2026 · Trade press · primary theme

  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.

• news · 25 Sept 2026 · Trade press · primary theme

  Groceryshop 2026: AI Agents Are Now Building the Grocery Basket

  Groceryshop 2026 showed AI agents from Instacart, DoorDash and Kroger, GLP-1 shifts and in-store retail media reshaping who builds the grocery basket.

• podcast · 16 Sept 2026 · Vendor · primary theme

  Your Next Customer Is an AI Agent | Amplience Co-CEO John Williams on GEO, AEO and the Content Supply Chain

  What happens to e-commerce when the internet is no longer built primarily for humans? John Williams, Co-CEO and CTO of Amplience, explains AEO and GEO, why the AI agent is now your audience before the customer, and why content creation is only a third of what the content suppl…

• news · 16 Sept 2026 · Vendor · primary theme

  Your Next Customer Is an AI Agent. Is Your Content Ready?

  Amplience co-CEO and CTO John Williams explains why AI agents, structured data and content operations are reshaping retail discovery and margins.

• news · 10 Jul 2026 · Trade press · primary theme

  Agentic Commerce Is No Longer a Pilot. Shopify, NVIDIA and Google Cloud Explain What Comes Next

  At Shoptalk Europe 2026, Shopify, NVIDIA and Google Cloud outlined how leaders in agentic commerce are pulling ahead through concentrated investment, hybrid AI models and top-down leadership.

• news · 20 May 2026 · Trade press · primary theme

  Every AI Has an Opinion of Your Brand - WRC 2026

  David Roth used the World Retail Congress to unveil Aura, WPP's first look at how AI models actually judge brands - and what retailers must do before the agent-to-agent commerce era arrives.

• podcast · 18 May 2026 · Trade press · primary theme

  Amazon vs Perplexity: Who Wins the AI Shopping War? | World Retail Signals

  Amazon vs Perplexity could redefine the future of AI commerce.In this episode of World Retail Signals, the panel explores:Autonomous AI shopping agentsRetail workforce transformationWHP Global’s Marc Jacobs acquisitionGreggs’ expansion strategyWellness retail growthAI-powered …

• podcast · 18 May 2026 · Trade press · primary theme

  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 …

• news · 15 May 2026 · Trade press · primary theme

  The Protocol War That Will Decide the Future of Retail

  As AI agents go shopping on our behalf, retailers face a new choice: which agent ecosystems to join, and which to ignore.

• podcast · 8 May 2026 · Trade press

  Why Retail Is Splitting in Two | Ted Baker, AI Commerce, Anthropologie & Coal Drops Yard

  Retail isn’t dying — it’s polarising. In this week’s episode of Five Things Friday, we unpack the biggest shifts shaping retail right now, from shrinking UK retail square footage to the rise of AI-powered shopping agents. We discuss: Why mid-market retail is under pressure Ted…

• podcast · 19 Dec 2025 · Operator voice · primary theme

  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…

• podcast · 8 Jul 2025 · Vendor

  Nagarro’s Rahul Mahajan: AI Demand Planning, Knowledge Graphs & Humanized Personalization

  How a €1 B digital‑engineering firm uses generative AI and agent tech to reinvent retail supply chains and CX.18 000 engineers, €1 B revenue, 50+ patents—Nagarro’s Global CTO Rahul Mahajan explains how generative AI, vector databases and knowledge graphs are reshaping demand p…