The UCP covers everything from discovery to after-sales support, aiming to streamline shopping for Gemini and Search users.

This innovation integrates Google’s conversational assistant Gemini with the extensive catalog, value, and speed of Walmart ...

Walmart is turning conversational AI into a new front door for shopping, wiring Google's Gemini assistant directly into its ...

A multichannel strategy can lift revenue and reduce risk, but only when the right systems keep operations from slipping into ...

Walmart and Google are betting that the next big leap in retail will not be a new app or website, but an AI assistant that ...

A Harris Poll has found that consumers, particularly Gen Z and millennials, are preferring brick-and-mortar to online retail.

Consumers will complete purchases within their AI conversation, representing both an existential threat and an unprecedented ...

Google is making a big push into AI-powered shopping with the release of Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open ...

Then there's the dividend. Walmart has increased its payouts for 52 consecutive years, making it a Dividend King, a ...

The Ottawa e-commerce giant announced yesterday that it has co-developed a new open standard for AI agent-based shopping with ...

AI is already helping people find the stuff they need to buy. Next year, we might just let it buy it on our behalf.

Kmart actually purchased Sears in an $11 billion merger back in 2005, but the stores were not able to keep up with the retail competition that came from the likes of Walmart and Amazon. Sears filed ...