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Google AI Mode Shopping Upgrade: What Retailers Must Do Now

Google AI Mode shopping now delivers organized product responses combining visuals, prices, reviews, and real-time inventory, and the retailers surfacing in those results have one thing in common: complete, structured catalog data matched against Google's Shopping Graph. On April 7, 2026, Google announced its biggest-ever upgrade to shopping in AI Mode, simultaneously expanding shopping features into the Gemini app and Circle to Search on Android. The optimization lever isn't SEO. It's catalog c