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The Retailgentic “Start Here” Playlist

Last '25 Agentic Commerce News Update: Steve Madden+Google Pay on Instant Checkout; Deloitte embraces ACO (Agentic Commerce Optimization) and Bain's 2030 Prediction plus Pods!

Matt Nichols, GP Commerce Ventures Returns!

Agentic Commerce News for the Week of 12/7-12/13 (Week 50/52): Morgan Stanley Agentic Commerce Reports Deep Dive Plus Two Bonus Pod Recommendations

A Conversation with Luca Fiaschi of PyMC Labs: Synthetic Consumers & the Future of Product Testing

🚨Flash: Instacart 'App' Is LIVE on ChatGPT and it Uses ACP Instant Checkout - Which Can Now Handle Multiple-item Carts! 🤯

Agentic Commerce News for the Week of 11/30-12/6 (Week 49/52): Webinars, NRF Innovators Showcase, Sam Orders The Code Red and More...

PayPal’s Mike Edmonds, VP of Agentic Commerce on PayPal's Agentic Commerce Roadmap & AI Checkout Future

Holiday 2025 Cyber-5+CyberMonday Recap: Let's Read Some Tea Leaves and Ponder the Agentic Commerce Implications

🚨Breaking: Walmart Launches on ChatGPT Instant Checkout Before CyberMonday🚨

FLASH: Rufus Usage Surges 70% (Sensor Tower) plus...Early Black Friday Read from Adobe and Highlights from Salesforce's AgentForce Commerce Data

FLASH: Adobe's Early Look at Thanksgiving Results - Agentic and Mobile Soar, Exceeds Forecast AND Google Gemini Drops Two Great Ads During Thanksgiving NFL Games

Perplexity Instant Buy Live Demo (ish)

FLASH: Perplexity+PayPal Launch Their 'Instant Buy' Collab Plus Adobe Releases Nov 1-23 Early Holiday 25 Read

HUMAN Security CEO: Stu Solomon: Inside the 'Battle of the Bots' and the 1,300% Surge in Bot Traffic.

BREAKING: Target App Launches on ChatGPT! (Live demo)

Breaking: ChatGPT Launches ChatGPT Shopping Research

Salesforce’s SVP+GM of Commerce Cloud, Nitin Mangtani, on ChatGPT ACP, and the Future of Agentic Commerce

Breaking: Perplexity and PayPal Announce 'Instant Buy' Coming Next Week PLUS 2 Demos: Google Buy for Me and Amazon Rufus' new 'Compare' Feature

FLASH: TARGET + OpenAI Announce Target App Launching in ChatGPT Next Week (plus some other big pre-🦃 big news items)

Fun With Ecommerce Math: Where the Heck Did Sam 'Find' $6,000,000,000?

Agentic Commerce News for the Week of 11/9-11/15 (Week 46/52): Interesting Altman Interview and A Great Mega Deck 🤘

Flash: Google Enters the Agentic Commerce Arena with Release of Buy for Me (Plus a Trip Report)!

PayOS Founder Johnathan McGowan: Agentic Payment Deep Dive and the Future of Agentic Commerce

BREAKING: Adobe Reveals October Agentic Commerce Traffic Increase of 1,200% and Conversions Surge to +16% Compared to Other Traffic

Agentic Commerce News for the Week of 11/2--11/8 (Week 45/52): Amazon vs. Perplexity and ACO on the Rise

OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji: "How People Use ChatGPT" Deep Dive Discussion

Instacart Embraces AI, Scales Up Merchant Services: Case Study in Embracing Agentic Commerce

Agentic Commerce News for the Weeks of 10/26-11/1 (Week 44/52): Amazon's CEO Comments + Q3 Earnings Analysis

🚨BREAKING: Shopify /ChatGPT Instant Checkout Integration Is Live in the Wild! 🔥(No Tricks👻 only Treats🍬)🎃

Caila Schwartz on Salesforce’s Holiday Forecast: Agentic Discovery, Loyalty, and “Discount Chicken”

Part IIIB/III: ACO for Retailers: The Agentic Commerce Optimization Playbook

FLASH: PayPal Coming to ChatGPT Checkout

Agentic Commerce News for the Weeks of 10/12-10/25 (weeks 42+43/52)

ChatGPT Atlas Demo Replay and Early Look at Amazon's 'Help Me Decide' new AI Feature!

Manil Uppal at CartAI : Building the Checkout Automation Layer for Agentic Commerce

Field Trip: On-site Report from Daydream's SOHO Popup.

🚨BREAKING: ChatGPT Launches Agentic Browser: ChatGPT Atlas! Demos heavily focused on Agentic Commerce...🚀

Part IIIA/III: ACO for Retailers, Brands and Agencies: Agentic Commerce Optimization (ACO) Foundations

FLASH: Walmart Exec Confirms: 3P Marketplace Products Coming to ChatGPT - 6X More SKUs Than Originally Anticipated 🤯 Plus ChatGPT #2 Ecommerce Site (by daily traffic)

ChatGPT Instant Checkout: Deep Dive Part III/III: Open Questions, FAQs (with Answers!) and Anti-Agentic Commerce Naysayers 🥊

FLASH: The Damn Breaks: Walmart and Salesforce Embrace ChatGPT Instant Commerce and ACP

Turning the Tables: Kiri Masters Interviews Scot Wingo on Agentic Commerce and ReFiBuy

Agentic Commerce News for the Week of 10/5-10/11 (week 41/52)

FLASH: Google's "Buy for Me" Agentic Checkout Feature Release is Imminent...

FLASH: Sam Altman Talks Instant Checkout in Awesome Stratechery Interview

ChatGPT Apps and ECommerce

Flash: Adobe's Holiday 2025 Forecast Calls for 520% y/y Agentic Commerce Growth

Agentic Commerce News for the Week of 9/27-10/3 (week 40/52)

Part II: Instant Checkout Deep Dive: Let's Get Nerdy! 🤓

Jason Nyus: President & GM at Shopware on Agentic Commerce, Open Ecosystems, and the Future of Checkout

ChatGPT Instant Checkout: Deep Dive Part I/III

Jordi Montes: Founder+CEO Simple Checkout, From Crypto to Agentic Payments

🚨🚨FLASH: ChatGPT Announces ‘Instant Checkout’…🚨🚨

Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 9/21-9/26 (week 39/52)

Melissa Minkow: Agentic Commerce, Loyalty, Consumer Habits, and Retail’s Future (Pod)

Agentic Browser Wars: Anthropic and Google Enter the Arena - Both in Chrome

Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 9/14-9/20 (week 38/52)

Dr. Amine Allouah: Columbia+Yale's Fascinating Research on How Agents Shop (Pod)

FLASH: ChatGPT Close to Launching ChatGPT Checkout... (Buy on ChatGPT?)

Announcing ReFiBuy Commerce Intelligence Engine

Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 9/7-9/13 (week 37/52)

Pod: The Predictive Enterprise: Deloitte’s Kasey Lobaugh on GenAI, Retail, and the Future of Consumers

Part II/III: GEO for Retailers, Brands and Agencies - Optimize the Six Agentic Shopping Engines for Holiday '25 to Drive Maximum Sales

Bloomberg SCOOP: Apple is Working on Perplexity Competitor... What's this Mean for Agentic Commerce?!

Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 8/31-9/6 (week 36/52)

Pod: Agentic Commerce, AI Shopping, and the End of the Funnel | Andrea Leigh, Allume Group

Part I/III: What is GEO→ACO for Agentic Commerce and What’s the Goal?

Labor Day Weekend Edition: Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 8/24-8/30 (week 35/52)

Pod: Is Google Screwed? A16Z's GP Alex Rampell on AI Shopping Agents & the Future of Commerce

Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 8/17-8/23 (week 34/52):

Pod: UVA Darden's Professor Luca Cian: Consumer Psychology and Agentic Commerce

Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 8/10-8/16 (week 33/52): Theme this week: Agentic Commerce Goes Mainstream

Google Quietly Testing Perplexity/ChatGPT-like In-line Shopping Experience in AI Mode - Agentic 'Buy for me' Imminent?

Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 8/2-8/9 (week 32/52): ChatGPT-5 Drops!

Pod: Kiri Masters on Agentic Shopping, Loyalty, and the Future of Retail Media Networks

The Agentic Era Begins: How Reinforcement Learning and GenAI Will Redefine Retail Software

Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 7/27-8/1 (week 31/52)

Pod: The AI-Native Brand Revolution: A Conversation with IBM’s Karl Haller

Battle of the Agentic Browsers Update: Microsoft Edge enters the Ring with Copilot Agentic Assist - Part 2/2

Battle of the Agentic Browsers Update: Microsoft Edge enters the Ring with Copilot Agentic Assist - Part 1/2

Scoop: We Have the Inside Story on Local Vending Machines and Autonomous Micro-Fulfillment Centers on Wheels (Specialized Rivians)

Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 7/20-7/26 (week 30/52)

Pod: Comet in Action! The Future of AI Shopping Agents | Retailgenic Live Demo

Agentic Shopping News for the Week of 7/13-7/19 (week 29/52)

Pod: Previous Retailer and Demandware/Salesforce Commerce Agency SVP Starts Agentic Startup: Kyle Montgomery

FLASH: ChatGPT Secretly Previewing Checkout Feature - Plans to "Take Cut of ChatGPT Driven Sales" (eg. BECOME A MARKETPLACE! 🤯)

Agentic Shopping News and Good Reads for the Week of 7/6-7/12 (week 28/52)

Pod: Agentic Payments: Ayal Karmi, founder of Nekuda Joins RetailGentic Hot on Heels of $5m Raise from Madrona, Visa and Amex

FLASH: GenAI Soars 🚀 on Prime Day 1, Perplexity's Agentic Browser Comet ☄️Dropping Today and NVIDIA breaks $4T!! 🤯

Adobe Predicts 33X Growth in GenAI Traffic on Amazon Prime Day (7/8-7/11)

Holiday 🇺🇸 edition of Tasty AI and Agentic Commerce Reads!

Agentic Shopping News and Good Reads You May have Missed this Week... (wk 26/52)

Pod: IDC’s Ananda Chakravarty shares Agentic Shopping advice for retailers and predicts AI Future

Wall St Event + Proposed Agentic Shopping Terminology

Interesting Agentic Shopping Reading this Week... (wk 25/52)

Pod: The Next Billion-Dollar Brand Won’t Have a Website!?!: Roy Rubin on Retailgenic

Interesting Agentic Shopping reading this week...

Pod: Matt Nichols @ Commerce Ventures: A VC's View on Agentic Commerce, AI Checkout, and Much More

Introducing the 5 Levels of Agentic Shopping Framework

Interesting Agentic Shopping reading this week...

Retailgentic Podcast: Sucharita Kodali @ Forrester: RMNs, GenAI+Retail and Agentic Shopping

Retailgentic Podcast: Michelle Grant @Salesforce Reveals Data on GenAI and Agentic Shopping's impact on Digital Retail

Interesting Agentic Shopping reading this week...

Introducing the Retailgentic Podcast...

Agentic Payments - The Essential Building Block for the Agentic Shopping Future.

Google's Shopping Agent: Great on Surface, but Two Fatal Flaws.

Survey Says: Consumers are Increasingly Using GenAI for Shopping...

Walmart 🤗 Agents + Perplexity 🫶 PayPal

Breaking AI Agentic News: Microsoft Copilot Update + Google vs. Pinterest? 🤷‍♂️

Retailgentic Ecosystem as of 5/8/25

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