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Why Retail’s AI Fraud Problem Starts at the Identity Layer

Retail has always attracted fraud, but what’s happening now is different in both scale and sophistication. 69% of…

Executive Viewpoints May 27
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From Alexa to ChatGPT: The AI Shopping Race is Rewriting Retail Media

In the last few weeks, Amazon embedded an AI shopping assistant into its search bar, OpenAI launched product…

Executive Viewpoints May 26
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AI Commerce Depends on Open, Foundational Location Data

The shift toward autonomous AI shopping agents is accelerating, moving agentic commerce from an experimental concept to an…

Executive Viewpoints May 25
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Is Your Data Ready for the Era of AI-Powered Search?

Data requirements for being found by an agentic commerce search go far beyond having the right basic product…

Features May 19
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The Invisible Bias Problem in AI Consumer Research

A startup ran the same question through a synthetic panel and a real consumer sample: “What would you…

Executive Viewpoints May 15
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Retailers: In Agentic Commerce, Payment Reliability will Determine Who Wins

It’s about to become far more important for merchants to offer consumers appropriate credit as agentic commerce emerges.…

Executive Viewpoints May 14
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Convenience vs. Discovery: How AI-Powered Shopping will Impact Brick-and-Mortar Retail

People thinking about the impact of agentic AI in retail focus, quite naturally, on how the digital shopper…

Features May 14
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Walmart to Lay Off or Relocate 1,000 Corporate Jobs

Walmart will lay off or relocate up to 1,000 corporate workers, following a reorganization earlier this year of…

News May 13
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When the Whole Customer Journey Happens Inside the LLM

In 2026, your best customer might never visit your website. They’ll ask an assistant a question, compare options,…

Executive Viewpoints May 12
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