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Instacart???s Clementine AI Turns One Message Into a Grocery Cart
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (341+ words) Instacart launched Clementine on Wednesday (Sept. 9) in the United States and Canada, an AI assistant that turns a message like “high-protein easy dinners for two” into a ready-to-buy cart, built on 1.6 billion lifetime orders and 10 million daily inventory signals. It’s…...
Target Turns App AI Features Into Bigger Orders and Faster Checkout
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (371+ words) Target is seeing results from the artificial intelligence-powered shopping features it added to its app over the past year, the retailer said in a Tuesday (Sept. 8) press release. “Guests move naturally between our stores and digital channels, and we’re using…...
Walmart Expands Tap to Pay as Amazon Builds Its AI Capacity
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (714+ words) Walmart is loosening control at checkout to strengthen the broader customer relationship, betting that payments can become more open as long as identity, loyalty, data and engagement stay inside its ecosystem. Amazon is pushing retail competition upstream into AI infrastructure,…...
Walmart Adds Papa John???s to Restaurant Delivery Partner List
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (418+ words) Walmart is reportedly expanding its restaurant delivery program with a new partnership with Papa John’s. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Sept. 10), Walmart says food from the pizza chain can be delivered in 30 minutes or less from the retailer’s website or…...
AI Takes the First Step in Shopping While Consumers Keep the Buy Button
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (733+ words) Nearly 50 million U.S. adults begin retail product research with AI, and 39 million have moved away from the channel where they started. AI changed at least one purchase decision for 83% of retail researchers who used it, including the price, brand, product or…...
Instacart Launches AI Agent Clementine to Turn Chats Into Grocery Carts
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (411+ words) Instacart has launched an artificial intelligence grocery shopping assistant that can turn a conversation, grocery list or recipe into a ready-to-buy cart, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 9) press release. Dubbed Clementine, the assistant is available to most U.S. and…...
Mastercard Expands Agentic Suite to Help Merchants Scale AI Shopping
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (318+ words) Mastercard is expanding one agentic AI offering for merchants while introducing another. The payments giant on Wednesday (Sept. 9) announced it had updated its Mastercard Agent Suite for Merchants, which lets businesses bring “agent-powered shopping experiences” into their eCommerce platforms. “Consumers…...
Coca-Cola???s AI Just Solved Retailers??? Inventory Headache
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (313+ words) Perfect Basket uses AI to tell retailers what to order and how much, and 83% of participants followed its suggestions across 39,000 Malaysian outlets. Every extra case ordered ties up cash until it sells. This is really a working-capital decision disguised as…...
How Pinterest Built an AI Engine Users Actually Trust
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (254+ words) Pinterest is best known as a place where people go to find ideas, from home décor to weeknight dinners. Behind that simple experience sits one of the most complex artificial intelligence systems in social media. A new AI assistant lets…...
Merchants Put AI to Work Without Handing Over the Customer
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (476+ words) The payments and retail industries are asking the wrong question about agentic commerce. The question is not whether an artificial intelligence agent can complete a purchase on its own, because many agents already can. It is whether the merchant wants…...