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Prime Big Deal Days spurs consumers to shop on a random Tuesday in October: Amazon鈥檚 event drives shoppers to spend, even if most aren鈥檛 buying holiday gifts.

When shoppers are ready to pay, the system will automatically display a roster of items for checkout. Sensei鈥檚 tech is GDPR-compliant, meaning it doesn鈥檛 collect or store any biometric information.

That won鈥檛 be easy given that it is competing against retailers such as Walmart and Kroger that operate thousands of stores.

Dollar General鈥檚 Popshelf format announces app, loyalty, and store updates to attract wealthier shoppers: The retailer will also close all locations in DG Market stores after the assortment failed to win over the dollar store鈥檚 core customer base.

Drugstores鈥� decline is hurting the US beauty market: Both Coty and L鈥橭r茅al linked the sector鈥檚 challenges to softer beauty demand, although sales broadly remain healthy as ecommerce and specialty retailers pick up the slack.

To help shoppers search more quickly and efficiently, Google has revamped Google Shopping, using AI to deliver more relevant, personalized information, product listings, and deals.

Retailers turn to virtual experiences to boost engagement, awareness: Walmart, Ikea, and Skechers are among the many trying to increase their appeal to younger shoppers while driving sales.

It鈥檚 more likely that smaller tech companies like Grabango can鈥檛 compete financially with big names like Walmart and Amazon. While these giants are able to absorb costs as they develop and scale the technology, Grabango investors were likely less willing to take on this risk.

2024 is shaping up to be the year of the AI-powered shopping assistant. Just two months in, retailers from Walmart and Amazon to Ikea and Chevron have released a flurry of AI-based updates, hoping to make the shopping experience easier and more relevant.

Amazon, Walmart, and Stitch Fix lead retailers when it comes to AI implementation: But retailers of all sizes are leveraging the technology to drive sales and improve CX, according to a report provided exclusively to 蘑菇AV.

Following a limited test across 25 stores in April 2023, Walmart has steadily increased its advertiser-funded in-store demo and sampling program. Walmart has said it is experimenting with bridging physical and digital, using QR codes at demo stations to link shoppers to digital product discovery pages and list-building capabilities.

Though growth is slowing, digital grocery will continue to fuel overall ecommerce growth in the US. 鈥淕rowth is no longer driven by new adopters, but heavy digital grocery users,鈥� our analyst Blake Droesch said on a recent 鈥淩eimagining Retail鈥� podcast episode. Here鈥檚 how retailers like Instacart, Amazon, and Walmart can capitalize on frequent buyers.

Ecommerce success relies on a seamless search strategy. To help consumers find, learn, and buy products more easily, retailers are building out their on-site search capabilities, adding video, incorporating AI, and giving shoppers more tools to find what they are looking for. Here are some of the latest improvements from Walmart, Amazon, and Instacart.

By 2028, almost 30% of digital ad spending will go to companies whose primary business is retail or ecommerce. Five years ago, that figure was 8.8%. Click here to view our full forecast for US retail media ad spending. The field is getting more crowded. Amazon is the driver of the retail media phenomenon, but Walmart, Target, Kroger, Instacart, and many others are jumping on the bandwagon.

Amazon, Target, and Walmart are launching holiday promotions in early October. Even so, Cyber Monday and Black Friday will still be the two biggest online shopping days of the year. We expect Cyber Monday ecommerce sales will grow 7.8% YoY to $13.93 billion, and Black Friday ecommerce sales will increase 5.5% to $10.76 billion.

Google gets 20 billion Lens searches a month, 4 billion related to shopping. They aren鈥檛 the only ones hoping to catch users鈥� attention with visual search features. TikTok began testing visual search in June, allowing users to take or upload a photo of a product to find similar items on TikTok Shop. Fashion resale marketplace Poshmark introduced visual search for its users.

Walmart is unlikely to put Vizio data behind closed doors: A renewed measurement deal with Comscore could assuage concerns about signal loss.

Consumers are using the internet and social media to a great extent for healthcare purposes. Here鈥檚 what healthcare and pharma marketers need to know about how online-acquired information influences patient action.