In this episode:

• Walmart captures 21% of U.S. grocery spending

• Walmart launches AI tools to enhance in-store shopping

• Walmart and OpenAI partner to enable purchases via ChatGPT

• Amazon’s “Help Me Decide” AI tool simplifies product choice

• Pinterest rolls out AI-driven boards to become a personal shopping assistant

• PayPal reports how AI is reshaping holiday shopping

• Consumers increasingly move beyond search engines for discovery

• Retailers enter a generative AI feedback loop

• Consumers embrace AI for research but hesitate on autonomous purchases

• Amazon unveils agentic AI and smart glasses to supercharge the supply chain

• Kroger deepens its partnership with Uber Eats through app integration

• Kroger and Sprouts pilot Instacart’s AI-powered Cart Assistant

• Target cuts 1,800 corporate jobs as part of a major restructure

• Amazon plans to cut 14,000 jobs to stay “nimble”

• Amazon and OpenAI ink a $38B cloud services partnership