Retail Technology News: January updateRetailers in January 2026 focused technology efforts in areas including virtual try-on, unified commerce and agentic shopping. The Strategic Power of Unified Retail Shopper DataA new era of retail intelligence is emerging as three once-separate data streams converge. Sponsored Amazon discontinuing Amazon One palm payment at retailers in June Amazon is pulling the plug on retail use of a groundbreaking biometric customer payment solution it rolled out during the COVID-19 pandemic. AI is changing product discovery – here’s how The rapid growth of artificial intelligence-referred sources in online retail traffic is having an impact on how consumers discover products. Vallarta Supermarkets automates detection of soon-to-expire products A Hispanic-focused California grocer is tackling the issue of food waste with some help from artificial intelligence. Korean eyewear brand Breezm debuts U.S. try-on app A Seoul-based custom-fit eyewear retailer is letting U.S. consumers design and order glasses engineered to their unique face shape. eBay bans AI bots from making automated purchases eBay Inc. is placing some restrictions on how artificial intelligence agents can shop its site. Northeast grocery co-op Allegiance Retail deploys Instacart tech The parent company of Foodtown is rolling out Instacart e-commerce capabilities and smart carts at select stores. Amazon Web Services signs $580M cloud contract with U.S. Air Force The hosted cloud computing division of Amazon is participating in a major U.S. Air Force cloud initiative. Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein parent teams with OpenAI PVH Corp. is co-developing enterprise artificial intelligence functionality with a major AI research organization. First Previous 30 31 32 33 34 Next Last
