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AI & Agentic Commerce

AI as a universal deflation machine

Prices fall fastest where supply scales, while institutions protect the scarce parts.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Google Turns World Cup Search Commercial

Search, Maps, Waze, tickets, and Gemini now sit around the same fan journey.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Search Gets Visual

Amazon is turning vague shopping intent into generated images before product listings appear.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Amazon Makes Merch Promptable

Alexa for Shopping now turns customer prompts into custom products inside Amazon's retail flow.

eBay

Regulation, Policy & Risk

Europe

eBay Depop Deal Hits UK Test

The CMA has opened phase 1. Recommerce is now marketplace power with better clothes.

eBay

Europe

eBay Germany Rewrites Recommerce Fees

New goods get tougher economics while used and refurbished items get a cleaner lane.

Logistics & Fulfillment

Amazon turns European logistics into a robotics test

The EUR10 billion pledge is not just warehouse capex. It is a bet that automation, local delivery density, and labor politics can move together.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Starbucks Learns AI Inventory Has To Earn The Shelf

The company is ending Automated Counting across North America after roughly nine months, showing why retail AI fails when store teams cannot trust the count.

AI & Agentic Commerce

AI-agent adoption by company size

Mid-market teams are testing first while large-company governance slows real agent deployment.

AI & Agentic Commerce

ChatGPT Ads Window Is Open

Early Adthena data shows repeat advertisers emerging while the learning window stays cheap.

AI & Agentic Commerce

AI platforms marketers focus on by goal

Marketers are splitting AI platforms by traffic, revenue, search, and efficiency jobs.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Walmart Store Data Moat

Stores, carts, delivery, and ads may become Walmart's AI-shopping edge.

Archive

AI as a universal deflation machine

Google Turns World Cup Search Commercial

Search Gets Visual

Amazon Makes Merch Promptable

eBay Depop Deal Hits UK Test

eBay Germany Rewrites Recommerce Fees

Amazon turns European logistics into a robotics test

Starbucks Learns AI Inventory Has To Earn The Shelf

AI-agent adoption by company size

ChatGPT Ads Window Is Open

AI platforms marketers focus on by goal

Walmart Store Data Moat

Your smart, no-nonsense guide to the maze of e-commerce

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MarketMaze

Archive

AI as a universal deflation machine

Google Turns World Cup Search Commercial

Search Gets Visual

Amazon Makes Merch Promptable

eBay Depop Deal Hits UK Test

eBay Germany Rewrites Recommerce Fees

Amazon turns European logistics into a robotics test

Starbucks Learns AI Inventory Has To Earn The Shelf

AI-agent adoption by company size

ChatGPT Ads Window Is Open

AI platforms marketers focus on by goal

Walmart Store Data Moat

Your smart, no-nonsense guide to the maze of e-commerce

Join 1,000+ other readers and get the week’s best ecommerce & marketplace insights.Always data-driven, always stunning in under five minutes.

MarketMaze

Join 1,000+ other readers and get the week’s best ecommerce & marketplace insights.
Always data-driven, always stunning in under five minutes.