Current Headlines

  1. Meet Alexa For Shopping, Your Personalized, Agentic AI Assistant On Amazon 5/13/2026
  2. Insider One, The Leading Agentic AI Platform Powering Autonomous, End-To-End Customer Engagement, Acquires Bluecore 5/13/2026

    Insider One, the leading Agentic Customer Engagement Platform, today announced its acquisition of Bluecore, a leading retail martech unicorn serving more than 400 US enterprise brands, including ALO Yoga, J.Crew, Sephora, Bloomingdale's, The North Face, Ralph Lauren, QVC, and Michael Kors.

  3. Instacart Expands Ads Manager To Retailers, Unlocking New Self-Serve Tools To Drive Growth Across The Marketplace 5/13/2026

    Instacart (NASDAQ: CART) today announced that retailers can now activate campaigns directly within Instacart Ads Manager, extending the company's scaled, self-serve advertising platform to its retail partners.

  4. SureDone Launches Mobile App, Bringing Amazon, eBay And Shopify Listing Management Into One Mobile Experience 5/13/2026

    SureDone, a multichannel e-commerce listing, inventory and order management platform, today announced the launch of SureDone Mobile, a new iOS and Android app that brings product management and multichannel listing workflows for Amazon, eBay and Shopify into one mobile experience.

  5. Shoppable Launches The First Universal Checkout MCP Server, Turning AI Assistants Into A Multi-Brand Storefront 5/12/2026

    Shoppable®, the unified commerce infrastructure platform, today announced the launch of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, the first universal checkout integration of its kind for AI assistants.

  6. Shoplazza Launches Athena To Bring AI-Native Operations Into Global eCommerce 5/11/2026

    As AI agents move from content generation into operational execution, Shoplazza today announced the launch of Athena, an AI admin agent designed to help merchants manage back-office eCommerce workflows through natural language.

  7. City Of Greensboro ABC Board To Optimize Store Space Planning With RELEX Solutions 5/11/2026

    The City of Greensboro Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Board, which manages the sale and regulation of distilled spirits across Greensboro, North Carolina, has selected RELEX Solutions to implement AI-driven space planning capabilities across its 17 ABC stores.

  8. Boot Barn Selects Aptos ONE To Power Its Next Era Of Retail Growth 5/6/2026

    Aptos, a leader in unified commerce solutions, announced today that Boot Barn Holdings, Inc. will deploy the Aptos ONE point of sale platform across its 500-plus U.S. locations.

  9. Verifone Puts AI To Work For Petroleum And Convenience Retailers 5/5/2026

    Verifone, a global leader in payments and commerce technologies, is harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to help petroleum and convenience retailers run smarter, more secure, and more efficient operations.

  10. Stater Bros. Partners With In-Store Marketplace To Launch In-Store Retail Media Network 5/5/2026

    In-Store Marketplace (ISM), the retail industry's first centralized platform for digital in-store media integration, today announced its partnership with Stater Bros. Markets, the largest privately owned grocery retailer in Southern California.