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Retail & Commerce · 4 min read

Retailers Are Pushing Back Against AI Shopping Tools That Give Consumers Pricing Power

With 20% of consumers interested in AI shopping agents, major retailers are blocking access, leaning into dynamic pricing, and building proprietary tools — all to resist the price transparency that consumer AI shopping tools create.

Jun 14

Retail & Commerce · 4 min read

Google Launches Universal Commerce Protocol to Power the Agentic Shopping Era

Google released an open standard for AI agents to browse and buy across retailer inventory — a structural bid to become the connective layer of agentic commerce.

May 25

Retail & Commerce · 4 min read

97% of Retailers Have AI Plans. Only Half of Consumers Trust Autonomous Shopping Agents.

Almost every retailer is building toward AI-powered agentic commerce. Only half of consumers are comfortable with autonomous purchasing agents. That gap is retail's defining challenge in 2026.

May 11

Retail & Commerce · 4 min read

Retailers Are Rewriting Their Products to Be Read by AI, Not Humans

Canadian Tire, Walmart, and other major retailers are restructuring product descriptions and metadata to be parsed by AI shopping agents — the traditional SEO playbook is becoming obsolete.

May 8

Retail & Commerce · 4 min read

Agentic Commerce Arrives: AI-Driven Retail Traffic Up 393% as Bots Replace Browsing

Adobe Digital Insights data shows AI-driven visits to U.S. retail sites surged 393% year-over-year in Q1 2026, with AI-referred shoppers converting 42% better — marking the emergence of agentic commerce at scale.

May 7