Amazon’s latest Alexa demonstration looked almost trivial: photograph a refrigerator, ask what groceries are missing, and let artificial intelligence assemble the shopping list. But for Walmart, it represents a considerably bigger strategic problem. Amazon is trying to move competition in grocery away from the place...
For two decades, retail discovery has rewarded whatever already sold. A product with more buyers gets more visibility, more visibility brings more buyers, and the cycle repeats. Popular items get more popular while everything else stays buried. Shopify’s most recent quarter suggests artificial intelligence search...
Every morning, they start showing up to shop. By the time the East Coast is at work, the crowd is in the tens of millions. They come with an occasion. A wedding in September on the Cape. A baby shower gift for a friend’s daughter....
Target has appointed its first chief artificial intelligence officer, the company said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) article. Chandhu Nair will join the company on Aug. 24 and will bring greater focus and coordination to AI across the company, according to the article. Nair was...
A grocery retailer can collect an extra dollar by marking up an online order, or it can give up that dollar and try to win more of the household’s grocery budget. Amid the volatile economic climate, more grocers may be inclined to test the second...
Amazon has added 750 Locker locations at more than 500 college and university campuses across the United States, the company said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) press release. Students can have eligible orders delivered to a campus Locker at no additional cost, pick them up on their own schedule...
Watch more: Need to Know With Tom Botts of Flex Pay by Upgrade and Dan Russotto of Furniture.com Nobody furnishes a living room one retailer at a time in their head. The shopper is thinking about whether the sofa works with the rug, whether the...
QVC Group, the live social shopping company whose brands include QVC and HSN, emerged from bankruptcy with its debt reduced by more than $5 billion, access to a new $600 million asset-based lending facility, and new leadership, the company said in a Thursday (Aug. 6)...
Retailers are looking to market their products through artificial intelligence platforms while bringing the transactions and data that come with them to their own platforms, Reuters reported Friday (Aug. 7). While they want to tap into the growing amount of online traffic going through AI...