Grocery giant Albertsons has teamed with OpenAI to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings for shoppers and employees. “Digital shopping, store operations, fulfillment, merchandising and customer experience all depend on systems that teams continually build, test and improve,” OpenAI said in a blog post announcing the partnership last week. “Albertsons Cos....
Consumers under financial pressure are buying bigger baskets and choosing value-focused merchants, giving retailers an opportunity to help shoppers make each purchase go further. That’s a central finding of “The New Checkout: Crimped Consumers Lean Into Online Retail and Digital Wallets,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report...
Amazon spent decades building a machine designed to make consumers come back constantly. Walmart has had one all along. It’s called grocery. Food and beverages now account for roughly 60% of Walmart’s retail business. Findings in the September 2026 edition of the Share of Wallet:...
Costco’s third-party same-day delivery offering is helping draw younger customers to the retailer, CEO Ron Vachris said Thursday (Sept. 24) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. Costco highlighted its expansion of third-party same-day delivery channels in the United States in a presentation released Thursday, saying that this is...
October 02, 2026
Consumers under financial pressure are buying bigger baskets and choosing value-focused merchants, giving retailers an opportunity to help shoppers make each purchase go further. That’s a central finding of “The New Checkout: Crimped Consumers Lean Into Online Retail and Digital Wallets,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report based on a survey of 2,108 U.S. adults. The research […]
September 28, 2026
Amazon spent decades building a machine designed to make consumers come back constantly. Walmart has had one all along. It’s called grocery. Food and beverages now account for roughly 60%...
August 13, 2026
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...
August 12, 2026
Consumers are getting some inflation relief, at least in terms of the slowdown in price increases. They’re just not necessarily getting it on the bills that determine how much money...
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 sellers to purchase eligible labels, access seller protections and manage Walmart Marketplace orders directly within their existing ShipStation workflow, according to the release. Ship with […]
October 05, 2026
Grocery giant Albertsons has teamed with OpenAI to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings for shoppers and employees. “Digital shopping, store operations, fulfillment, merchandising and customer experience all depend on systems that teams continually...
September 25, 2026
Costco’s third-party same-day delivery offering is helping draw younger customers to the retailer, CEO Ron Vachris said Thursday (Sept. 24) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. Costco highlighted its expansion of third-party...
September 23, 2026
Local commerce platform DoorDash introduced a platform that provides brands with purchase-based signals from consumer orders and audit-based signals from shelf scans, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23)...
