guide
Preparing retail for agentic AI
Survey data on how shoppers use AI (64% have used GenAI to shop) and why machine-readable catalogs and live inventory matter. Enterprise retail focus.
Topic
Agentic commerce
AI agents that shop and check out for people, and what merchants need to do.
Resources
guide
OpenAI shifts checkout plans in its agentic commerce strategy
Why OpenAI scaled back Instant Checkout and moved purchases to merchant apps. A useful reality check on agentic commerce hype.
docs
AI commerce at scale
Shopify's January 2026 announcement of Agentic Storefronts, Shopify Catalog for all brands and the Universal Commerce Protocol with Google.