Amazon’s U.S. customers can now use the company’s AI-powered Alexa for Shopping to create custom designs to be printed on T-shirts, water bottles and other apparel and drinkware items. This new feature is now available to all U.S. customers, the company said in a Monday...
Walmart is reportedly trying to sell its workers on the benefits of artificial intelligence. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (June 7), the retail goliath last week gathered thousands of its employees at its Arkansas headquarters to drive home the message that AI would...
If New York’s governor signs a bill passed by the state legislature on Thursday (June 4), businesses will be prohibited from using so-called “surveillance pricing.” The One Fair Price Act (A.9349) would prohibit “personalized algorithmic pricing,” restrict the use of personal data for surveillance pricing,...
Walmart shareholders voted down a proposal that would have required the company to prepare a report on the workplace impact of artificial intelligence and automation. The shareholder proposal was presented at the company’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and received about 4.95% of the shares that were...
Gopuff has added an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “personal shopping genius” called Go to its instant commerce app. Developed in collaboration with SpaceX-owned xAI, Go combines xAI’s frontier models, Gopuff’s 13 years of instant delivery data, and SpaceX-owned social media platform X’s real-time insights to create a predictive shopping...
Bigger is better, and faster is best. That’s not just a quote you might find on a bad T-shirt. It’s also the central strategy driving traditional retail competition defined by scale, eCommerce logistics, pricing power and near-frictionless delivery. This week’s headlines, however, made it clear...
Walmart’s artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant Sparky has doubled its weekly active users in a single quarter. That’s according to a PYMNTS report in May, which added that Sparky users consistently generate larger average basket sizes than customers who don’t use it and that Walmart...
When a millennial advertising executive spends 30 minutes on a Sunday morning browsing face serums on a beauty website, she expects that once she lands on her final choice, the hard work is over. Now all she has to do is click to pay. But...
Amazon’s Prime Day hasn’t been confined to a single day for some time now. That multi-day trend will continue this year, though the shopping event will take place a few weeks earlier than usual, the eCommerce giant announced Tuesday (June 2). Prime Day 2026, open solely to...