The Home Depot currently offers more than a dozen AI-powered capabilities, with numerous others in development. Through new artificial intelligence tools, the company is delivering its home improvement expertise directly to millions of DIY customers and professional contractors. “Everything we …
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Walmart is reworking its approach to AI-powered shopping as OpenAI shifts ChatGPT into product discovery, showing a reset in how agentic shopping will work. Walmart began its partnership with OpenAI in October 2025 and has enabled customers to make purchases …
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ECI Software Solutions, Inc., announced it has acquired Drypowder, a financial technology company focused on modernizing accounts receivable, billing and digital payments for the building materials and construction industries. “Across the industries we serve, accounts receivable is often manual and …
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Providing the space to source smarter and scale faster, NHS Concept to Commerce is the retail industry’s premier event connecting retailers, product development teams, wholesalers and distributors with inventors, private label partners and global factories, streamlining product discovery, supplier sourcing …
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Combining AI chat, task management and operations analytics—tied directly to a retailers POS inventory—FastQuery is an AI copilot built for independent home improvement retailers. FastQuery helps store associates quickly find product information like aisle numbers, price and comparable items using voice commands and …
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Walmart Inc. and Google recently announced plans to launch a new shopping experience with Google Gemini. With the new experience, customers can link their Google and Walmart accounts to receive personalized recommendations from Walmart based on past online and in-store …
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Combining AI chat, task management and operations analytics—tied directly to a retailers POS inventory—FastQuery is an AI copilot built for independent home improvement retailers. FastQuery helps store associates quickly find product information like aisle numbers, price and comparable items using voice …
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ECI Software Solutions recently announced the launch of its ecommerce AI Agent, a built-in AI tool in the company’s ecommerce platform, EvolutionX, which also powers its Spruce eCommerce platform. “Ecommerce businesses today are managing more digital complexity than ever, from …
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