Beth Duckett

Retailers and marketplaces across apparel, entertainment and gifts reported ecommerce earnings results ahead of the holidays.

Both Visa and Mastercard's moves follow other launches in agentic artificial intelligence (AI) payments from OpenAI and Google.

CVS and Party city are already using DashMart Fulfillment Services as DoorDash tests its Dot robot in Arizona.

Customers in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and Seattle can browse, finance and buy Hertz vehicles directly on Amazon.

Visa and Mastercard are offering support for “agentic commerce,” where AI agents can complete purchases on behalf of users.

Buy for Me uses agentic AI to allow shoppers to buy products from other brand websites directly within the Amazon Shopping app.

The company is working with Firmly.ai as it tries to make Perplexity an ecommerce destination in addition to an AI-powered engine.

Alexa+ will be free for Amazon Prime members or available at a monthly cost to non-members, the company said.

Early ecommerce brands working with OpenAI's Operator, a generative AI agent, include eBay, Etsy and Instacart.

H&M said ecommerce accounted for 30% of its sales in its 2024 third-quarter earnings results released last week.

Home Depot's Q2 earnings showed a 4% year-over-year increase in online sales, while same-store sales fell 3.3%.