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...
Last June, Amazon said it would invest 40 billion pounds (about $53.9 billion) in the U.K. from 2025-2027. One year later, the company said it is more than a third of the way to that goal. Amazon announced Monday (June 1) it has invested 15...
Walmart says its drones have now made more than 1 million deliveries. “What started as a pilot just a few years ago has officially taken off, giving customers a faster, easier way to get the everyday items they need, right when they need them,” the retail...
Retail innovation is entering a new era that owes a debt to the late Japanese retail executive Toshifumi Suzuki. Outside Japan, Suzuki, who passed away May 18, was often described simply as the executive who built 7-Eleven Japan into a convenience-store powerhouse. Inside the industry,...