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One in five of Britain’s best known brands is invisible when shoppers ask AI what to buy

Human Forward tested 75 well known UK retailers and brands across six AI assistants. No assistant recommended 15 of the 75. And of the 50 sites it could check, seven in ten could not be bought from by an AI agent. AI assistants are becoming

Primark owner warns of further profit decline after 14% slump

Primark owner Associated British Foods has warned that profits will fall again next year after reporting a 14 per cent decline in annual earnings. The FTSE 100 group posted adjusted operating profit of £1.51bn for the year to 12 September 2

Zalando beats sales expectations with profit rise and AI shopping push

Zalando has beaten third-quarter sales expectations, citing strong growth in its business-to-business division. It reported a 5.1 per cent rise in revenue to £2.8bn for the three months to September, ahead of the £2.63bn forecast by analyst

John Lewis unveils 2026 Christmas advert starring Kristin Scott Thomas

John Lewis has officially unveiled its much-anticipated 2026 Christmas advert, starring Dame Kristin Scott Thomas and Paul Whitehouse. Titled Gloria and Pickles, the three-minute advert centres on the relationship between grandparents and g

Cities Worldwide Build and Scale AI Services With NVIDIA Physical and Agentic AI

Cities generate enormous amounts of data from cameras, sensors and operational systems, but turning it into useful action — for planning, maintenance and public services — remains a challenge. Physical and agentic AI offer new ways to close

Big sales insights: opening 5 more stores ≠ 5 times the orders! Blind expansion is just accelerating losses

First get the accounts straight and put risks upfront.

Started with 300,000! 12 years later, he secured the first publicly listed consumer-grade 3D printing company

Only openness can create an era!

AnyMind and Meta Partner to Bring Live Commerce Ads to Asia Pacific

The ad rollout links social video streams to external merchant checkouts, starting with Facebook Live in Q4 2026.

Notino expands retail media offering with Criteo-powered ad platform

Online beauty retailer Notino has expanded its retail media capabilities through a partnership with global commerce intelligence platform Criteo. The post Notino expands retail media offering with Criteo-powered ad platform appeared first o

What DoorDash’s Instacart acquisition says about the modern delivery platform pitch

DoorDash’s announced Instacart deal shows that delivery platforms are shifting further into retail tech, ads and data-driven shopping.

230-plus immigrants arrested in crackdown targeting unauthorized CDL holders

Federal and state authorities arrested more than 230 undocumented immigrants, including over 40 CDL holders, during a three-day operation spanning 15 states. The post 230-plus immigrants arrested in crackdown targeting unauthorized CDL hold

Wayfair运营逻辑详解：从流量到销售的转化闭环丨Wayfair运营干货⑦

All operations are for conversion

Apple Forecasts Slower Services Growth as AI Costs Rise

Apple expects slower services growth during the holiday quarter, at the same time that it absorbs the cloud-computing costs of Siri AI and prepares to charge customers for expanded access to certain artificial intelligence features. Speakin

Don't rush to ship: a Brazilian local store seller's 3 million entry ticket

Lose money for 3 months first, then profit for 3 years!

Anthropic Buys One-Person Biotech to Prove Claude Can Make Drugs

Anthropic said Oct. 27 it acquired Mithril Medicine, a startup developing treatments for two rare forms of muscular dystrophy. Founder Cody Tranbarger, Mithril’s only full-time employee, used Claude to organize contracts, logistics and expe

Meta's November new rules take effect: Ad account opening requires Alipay enterprise verification (with operation guide)

Blindly following the sell = planting landmines for yourself! 3 sleep-aid hit products keep generating orders? Patents were lying in wait long ago!

Upwork Embeds Freelance Marketplace Inside Top AI Tools

Upwork has been rolling out new tools as artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes work and the ways clients and talent use the company’s work marketplace, President and CEO Hayden Brown said Monday (Nov. 2) during the company’s third quarter e

Pamt Corp. reports Q3 net loss, books 109.1% truckload OR

Truckload carrier Pamt Corp. lost money again during the third quarter, pointing to elevated driver procurement costs and a spike in diesel fuel prices as the main culprits, echoing similar challenges across the industry. The post Pamt Corp

Mastercard Forms OpenAI and Tencent Partnerships to Drive Agentic Commerce

Lost in the recent earnings announcement from Mastercard was a broad strategic partnership with OpenAI that Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said includes the use of his company’s Agent Pay and “goes well beyond.” “Our agreement establishes c

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AI Agents Take the Grunt Work Out of Pamarco’s Close

Pamarco, a manufacturer of precision components for the printing and packaging industries, has put artificial intelligence agents on the accounting work that once ran only through its finance staff. “We’ve been able to automate roughly 40%

Product identifiers for e-commerce imports mandatory from 1 November 2026

From 1 November 2026, product identifiers (PIDs) must be declared to customs for goods sold in distance sales to buyers in the EU, notably consumers.

Google Wallet Tests Letting Users Confirm Identity Before Every Contactless Payment

The latest Google Wallet update includes a new Tap to pay option in the verification settings that may control how often the app asks users to verify their identity before making contactless payments, Android Authority reported Sunday (Nov.