E-Commerce
Why agentic commerce stole the spotlight at NRF
Google’s splash at NRF quickly made Sundar Pichai the star of the show with his first appearance at retail’s big show.
Vidhi is a reporter for Retail Brew covering e-commerce and retail media. She was previously a senior reporter at Digiday's Modern Retail. Her work has also been published in TheStreet, Forbes, Nikkei Asia and TheCity. Vidhi has a master's degree in business and economics journalism from Columbia Journalism School.
E-Commerce
The Google-powered future of retail is here
There were a lot of retail names attached to Google’s full stack approach for agentic commerce or agent assisted shopping.
E-Commerce
What does Walmart’s agentic AI partnership with Google mean for online shopping?
Walmart said the customer can now complete their shopping journey through its Gemini integration instead of simply making a single unit purchase via ChatGPT.
E-Commerce
A lot of CES 2026 was about how to make robots more human
This year was all about balancing human connections within a digital world.
E-Commerce
2026: The year of ‘zero-click buying’
People are expected to shop more with agents like Amazon’s Rufus and Walmart’s Sparky.
E-Commerce
All the retail action expected at CES 2026
A preview of the retail lineup at technology’s big show in Las Vegas.
E-Commerce
Temu taps Shopify sellers for future growth
Temu is going after smaller Shopify sellers to capture more local merchants in the US.
E-Commerce
This year marked the birth of agentic commerce
Disruption from agentic AI shopping agents will get real in 2026.
E-Commerce
Can Walmart’s AI bet close the gap with Amazon?
Whoever nails product discovery wins the AI shopping wars.
Retail Media
Shopify rolls out advertising network for merchants
Merchants can activate Product Network through their Shopify admin to dynamically insert other sellers’ products on their online store.