omnichannel commerce

Acquirers Say Risk and Readiness Are Slowing Agentic Commerce
Acquirers Say Risk and Readiness Are Slowing Agentic Commerce
March 24, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

“How Acquirers Prepare for Agentic Commerce” examines how acquirers are preparing for the next phase of digital commerce as AI-powered agents take on a larger...

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Walmart’s Closing the Amazon Online Sales Gap
Walmart’s Closing the Amazon Online Sales Gap
January 14, 2026  |  Retail

Walmart’s online business is no longer defined by how far it trails Amazon, but by how quickly it is changing the structure of the retail...

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Amazon and Walmart Make Same-Day Grocery Delivery Retail’s New Battleground
Amazon and Walmart Make Same-Day Grocery Delivery Retail’s New Battleground
August 15, 2025  |  Retail

Amazon and Walmart occupy overlapping territory in retail but dominate in very different ways, largely because they’ve built their empires around different strategic identities. Amazon is...

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Visa Presses Merchants to Treat Every Channel as One Storefront
Visa Presses Merchants to Treat Every Channel as One Storefront
August 14, 2025  |  Retail

Watch more: The Rise of the Mobile-First Shopper: What Every Merchant Needs To Know The simple, pandemic-fueled behaviors of “order online, pay in store” or...

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How the Platformization of Payments Is Powering Omnichannel Retail
How the Platformization of Payments Is Powering Omnichannel Retail
July 28, 2025  |  Payments Innovation

All the pricing strategies in the world won’t pay off if the payment mechanisms behind them aren’t the ones shoppers want to use. It’s an...

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Walmart Outpaces Amazon in Same-Day Deal Days Showdown
Walmart Outpaces Amazon in Same-Day Deal Days Showdown
July 24, 2025  |  Retail

In the race to dominate modern retail’s final frontier of instant convenience, Walmart has done what once seemed improbable: outpace Amazon in the battle for...

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How Brands Can Deepen Customer Connections in the Metaverse
How Brands Can Deepen Customer Connections in the Metaverse
July 10, 2025  |  Metaverse

A new study sheds light on how brands can deepen their engagement with consumers in the metaverse through interactions with their “digital doppelgängers.” Unlike 2D...

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Amazon Bets on In-House AI Stack as Walmart Amplifies Workforce
Amazon Bets on In-House AI Stack as Walmart Amplifies Workforce
June 27, 2025  |  Retail

Jeff Bezos is getting married this weekend. The Amazon founder has spared no expense, reportedly buying out much of the luxury accommodations in Venice, Italy,...

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Mobile Phone Shoppers Are Mexican Merchants’ Best Friend
Mobile Phone Shoppers Are Mexican Merchants’ Best Friend
May 28, 2025  |  Mobile Commerce

Over the past decade, annual growth in Mexico’s economy has zigzagged from 2.7% (in 2015) to minus 8.4% (2020) to 3.2% in 2023, IMF data...

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