Big retailers are committing more heavily to agentic AI-led commerce, and accepting some loss of customer proximity and data control in the process. As reported by Retail Dive, the opening weeks of 2026 have seen Etsy, Target and Walmart push product ranges onto third-party AI platforms, forming new partnerships with Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot,…
One of First Insight’s core claims is that Ellis makes consumer insight accessible outside of specialist analytics teams. Natural-language queries, the company argues, lets senior executives down engage with data with no waiting for analysis. Democratisation of analytics is a recurring theme in a great deal of industry research. Gartner reports organisations which broaden access…
Zara is testing how far generative AI can be pushed into everyday retail operations, starting with a part of the business that rarely gets attention in technology discussions: product imagery. Recent reporting shows the retailer using AI to generate new images of real models wearing different outfits, based on existing photoshoots. Models remain involved in…
