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Lowe's wants to do more with AI shopping in 2026
Expect more AI-powered personalization from Lowe's next year as the home improvement retailer continues to hone its e-commerce strategy.
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Consumers want agentic shopping, but they want the final say
New Logica Research for Commerce and PayPal finds that shoppers see value in agents that save time and money across the U.S., U.K. and Australia. Purchase confirmation, security and control remain adoption requirements, suggesting delegated shopping will expand in stages rather than arrive as fully autonomous buying overnight. Recent examples include Schnucks introduces an agentic assistant for personalized grocery s…; Study finds Amazon and Walmart agents detect but do not flag false….
- Platforms
Amazon’s loss gives shopping agents a stronger claim to platform access
A U.S. appeals court overturned the temporary ban on Perplexity’s AI shopping tools accessing Amazon. The ruling does not settle every liability question, but it raises the stakes for marketplaces: agents may increasingly act as a user’s interface to catalogues that platforms have historically controlled directly. Recent examples include Appeals Court Lets Perplexity’s AI Shopping Tools Access Amazon; Synchrony Partners With OpenAI on ChatGPT Shopping Payments.
- Payments
ChatGPT shopping is moving from discovery toward card-based checkout
Synchrony’s partnership with OpenAI points to the next constraint in agentic commerce: connecting recommendations to authorized payment. With full integration estimated at six to 12 months, the work ahead is less about conversational product discovery than tokenization, permissions, fraud controls and issuer participation. Recent examples include ESW links Microsoft Copilot discovery to global checkout; Universal Commerce Protocol Outlines Open Rails for Agentic Commerce.
- Retailers
AI-referred retail traffic is becoming commercially material
Adobe data cited by WWD shows AI-referred traffic to retail sites rose 62% in July and outperformed on conversion and engagement. For brands, the immediate implication is practical: product data, availability and landing pages must serve both human shoppers and the systems that increasingly influence what they see. Recent examples include Retail AI Shopping Bot Exploit Exposes Security Risks; Grocery retailers are bringing conversational AI into the shopping….
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Source: The GrocerAI AgentsResearchProvenance pivots to proving product claims to AI shopping agents
'We help brands show proof of what they're claiming - whether that's genuinely vegan, clinically proven, or sustainably made - in a way both people and AI can read and trust'
- Source: MSNPlatformsRetailers
Soon You’ll Be Able to Shop Walmart in ChatGPT. Here’s Why It Matters.
Walmart is forming a partnership with OpenAI to let shoppers buy its products directly within ChatGPT. It is a signal by the biggest U.S. retailer that online shopping is going to become a different experience from the retail websites we are used to.
Source: InstacartPlatformsRetailersInstacart App Launches in OpenAI ChatGPT
Consumers can now shop from more than 1,800 retailers directly within ChatGPT via a fully integrated Instacart app commerce experience. Instacart offers an embedded, end-to-end shopping and Instant Checkout - all within the context of a ChatGPT conversation.
- Source: Yahoo FinancePaymentsRetailers
Logicbroker Announces Partnership with PayPal to Make Agentic Commerce Accessible to Merchants at Scale
The collaboration allows thousands of Logicbroker merchants to seamlessly activate PayPal's agentic commerce services - including store sync and future agentic payment capabilities. This makes their catalogs instantly discoverable across leading AI shopping channels with minimal technical lift.
Source: The DecoderPlatformsRetailersOpenAI insists its shopping suggestions shouldn't be seen as advertising
Paid ChatGPT users recently reported seeing a prompt labeled "Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target," which appeared to ask them to link their ChatGPT account to OpenAI's retail partner Target. For many users, the message looked like an ad.
Source: MashablePaymentsPlatformsOpenAI launches Instant Checkout, with 1 million+ merchants coming soon
The company explained that Instant Checkout was co-developed with payment processor Stripe and already works in chat with Etsy. Support for “over a million Shopify merchants, like Glossier, SKIMS, Spanx, and Vuori,” is coming soon
Source: MashablePlatformsAI AgentsPerplexity searches are now shoppable with a Perplexity Pro subscription.
Today, the AI-driven search engine unveiled "Buy with Pro," a shopping assistant within Perplexity searches that gives you a one-click shopping experience.
Source: vindy.comAI AgentsThe future is now for holiday shopping
Major retail chains and tech companies are offering new or updated artificial intelligence tools in time for the holiday shopping season, hoping to give consumers an easier gift-buying experience and themselves an augmented share of online spending.
Source: Retail TouchPointsAI AgentsRetailersAlbertsons Introduces Agentic AI Shopping Assistant
This major retailer just launched an AI shopping assistant powered by OpenAI models across its banner sites like Safeway, Vons, and Jewel-Osco - another clear example of agentic ecommerce in action.
Source: NorthPennNowAI AgentsHere is how Autonomous Shopping Assistants Are Replacing Traditional Agentic Chatbots
Remember the last time you tried getting help from a customer service chatbot? You probably spent five minutes clicking through menus, only to end up more frustrated than when you started. These rigid, scripted interactions are quickly becoming relics of the past.
Source: RetailDiveAI AgentsPaymentsAmazon, Visa Join Forces to Build AI Shopping Agents
The e-commerce giant is locking arms with the largest U.S. card network to provide software developers with tools and contacts for creating agentic commerce experiences.
Source: PYMNTS.comAI AgentsPlatformsAI Agents Turn Issuers Into Real-Time Decision Makers
New applications of artificial intelligence technologies, from dynamic wallets to autonomous shopping agents, are compressing the distance across global
Source: TechzinePlatformsAI AgentsWhy Salesforce built three levels of AI commerce agents
Salesforce's James Sample reveals three levels of AI commerce agents, from ChatGPT integration to WhatsApp shopping and owned experiences.
Source: Technology.OrgAI AgentsAI Shopping Tools Drive Record $11.8B Black Friday - Technology Org
AI chatbots helped Americans spend $11.8B online Black Friday, up 9.1%. But higher prices mean shoppers bought fewer items despite spending more.
