Amazon spent the week telling shoppers how much they could save. Walmart spent part of it explaining why consumers shouldn’t worry about how their prices are set. The contrast came as Amazon launched its Prime Big Deal Days event on Oct. 6-7, offering millions of...
Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Pablo Fourez Consumers won’t hand artificial intelligence agents unrestricted purchasing authority on day one, but repeated successful transactions could expand what they’re willing to delegate. It’s a topic that now dominates agentic AI discussions. The first time Mastercard...
Walmart Marketplace sellers can now directly access Walmart-negotiated shipping rates within ShipStation’s intelligent shipping and logistics platform, ShipStation said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. This capability is enabled by ShipStation’s new Ship with Walmart solution, which allows Walmart Marketplace sellers to purchase eligible labels, access seller protections and manage Walmart Marketplace orders directly within...
TikTok has introduced an in-app checkout solution and an artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant, saying in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release that these are the first of several agentic commerce experiences the company is adding to its platform. The in-app checkout solution, Buy Direct, allows users to buy...
October 08, 2026
Amazon spent the week telling shoppers how much they could save. Walmart spent part of it explaining why consumers shouldn’t worry about how their prices are set. The contrast came as Amazon launched its Prime Big Deal Days event on Oct. 6-7, offering millions of discounts across electronics, toys, clothing and household essentials. Walmart countered […]
October 08, 2026
Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Pablo Fourez Consumers won’t hand artificial intelligence agents unrestricted purchasing authority on day one, but repeated successful transactions could expand what they’re willing...
October 02, 2026
Artificial intelligence agents add information to a card payment that merchants, issuers and networks don’t routinely exchange today: what the consumer authorized the agent to do and whether the transaction...
October 02, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Synchrony’s Mike Storiale Artificial intelligence can already recommend the running shoes. The payments industry still must figure out how to let it buy...
October 08, 2026
Amazon cut fewer than 1,000 white-collar jobs in the unit that oversees its main eCommerce website, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. 7), citing an unnamed source. The company made the cuts in customer service, selling partner services and other divisions within the Stores unit, and possibly other Amazon units, and laid off employees in the United States, India and the United Kingdom, according […]
October 06, 2026
Walmart Marketplace sellers can now directly access Walmart-negotiated shipping rates within ShipStation’s intelligent shipping and logistics platform, ShipStation said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. This capability is enabled by ShipStation’s new Ship with Walmart solution, which allows Walmart Marketplace...
October 05, 2026
TikTok has introduced an in-app checkout solution and an artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant, saying in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release that these are the first of several agentic commerce experiences the company...
October 05, 2026
Product discovery platform Constructor has introduced a new Stripe-integrated agentic commerce offering. Agentic Checkout, announced in a Monday (Oct. 5) news release, is designed to allow both human shoppers and artificial intelligence (AI) agents...
