As peak holiday demand stretches supply chains to their limits, global retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target are leaning heavily on artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to move goods faster, reduce errors and protect workers from physically demanding tasks. What was once experimental technology has...
Instacart is suspending its price testing practice on its grocery delivery platform, according to a Monday (Dec. 22) company blog post. The announcement followed the Dec. 9 publication of an investigation by Consumer Reports in partnership with advocacy groups Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union...
Retailers are moving quickly to tighten control over how consumers pay, as new PYMNTS Intelligence data shows embedded finance shifting from a background capability to a frontline business priority. According to “Retailers Expand Embedded Finance to Unlock Control and Customization,” a November 2025 PYMNTS Intelligence report...
Retailers are no longer treating embedded finance as a checkout enhancement. The data show it is becoming a tool for control over customer relationships, compliance exposure and operational tempo across the retail stack. That is the central takeaway from “Retailers Expand Embedded Finance to Unlock Control...
Amazon Business is offering new benefits to members of its Business Prime program. The tech giant announced Thursday (Dec. 18) that these small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can now access benefits from Intuit Quickbooks, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike and human resources and payroll platform Gusto. “Small business owners wear a lot...
Among retail’s most dominant themes in 2025 was that the next era of competition is about ecosystem control, not just operational excellence. As 2026 approaches, Walmart and Amazon are focused on building monetization layers that sit on top of commerce: advertising, data, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven...
Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Paysafe’s Roy Aston In payments, the most meaningful breakthroughs can often be invisible ones. The consumer taps, clicks or chats, and the transaction simply works. But much of the real work of payments transformation takes place deep in infrastructure,...
Amazon has formed a new organization that will bring together its artificial intelligence (AI) models, silicon development and quantum computing. The company’s artificial general intelligence (AGI) team will be included in the organization, as will the Nova AI models and the Graviton, Trainium and Nitro...
Marketplace optimization platform Teikametrics has debuted an artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Artificial Retail Intelligence (ARI). This new system is designed to increase merchant success on Walmart, Amazon and TikTok as AI increases the volume of content and makes it harder to gain attention, the...