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Shopify Says It's Never Been More Excited. Forrester Says Slow Down. They're Both Right.
Shopify's president told an audience in Los Angeles this week that his company has never been more excited about anything in its history. Five days earlier, Forrester published adoption data suggesting most consumers haven't even started shopping with AI. The interesting part isn't that they disagree. It's that they're both looking at accurate data and drawing different conclusions. What Did Shopify Say About Agentic Commerce? Harley Finkelstein, Shopify's president, spoke at the Upfr
Visa Just Made Agentic Commerce a Payments Standard. Here's What That Means for Retailers.
In the span of 48 hours this week, Visa made two moves that quietly shifted agentic commerce from conference-talk territory into real payments infrastructure. On Monday, March 17, Visa launched Visa Agentic Ready in Europe - a program that puts issuers into controlled production environments to test AI agent-initiated transactions. On Tuesday, Visa announced support for Stripe and Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), releasing a card-based specification, a developer SDK, and integrati
93% of AI Shopping Searches End Without a Click. Here's Where the Money Goes Instead.
92 to 94% of Google AI Mode searches produce zero clicks. But Walmart's AI assistant drives 35% higher order values. The money didn't disappear — it moved.
Your Brand Owns Its Name in AI Search. It's Invisible for Everything Else.
Branded queries find your products in AI search. Non-branded queries are where purchase intent lives, and where most catalogs go silent.
Agentic Commerce Just Left the Building. Most Brands Aren't Ready.
Google, OpenAI, and Amazon all launched agentic shopping in a single week. Most brands still have no AI commerce strategy.
Google's UCP Is Live With Wayfair and Etsy. Here's a Technical Breakdown of What Retailers Need to Implement.
Google UCP is live with Wayfair and Etsy. A technical breakdown of endpoints, authentication, and integration steps for retailers.
41% of Consumers Now Use AI for Product Discovery. A Third Have Ditched Search Entirely.
41% of consumers now use AI for product discovery. A third have ditched search entirely. What the PYMNTS data means for retail.
Adobe Just Committed to Every Agentic Commerce Protocol. Here's What That Means for Your Stack.
Adobe Commerce now supports UCP, ACP, and AP2, becoming the first major platform to commit to all three agentic commerce protocols.