{"id":179188,"date":"2026-01-17T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/tech-firms-are-persuading-retailers-to-put-a-i-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:35:09","slug":"tech-firms-are-persuading-retailers-to-put-a-i-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/tech-firms-are-persuading-retailers-to-put-a-i-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/17\/business\/tech-firms-ai-retailers.html\">Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/17\/business\/tech-firms-ai-retailers.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/17\/business\/tech-firms-ai-retailers.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-17 05:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Companies across all levels of retail are aggressively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their operations to drive the entire shopping experience.<\/li>\n<li>At a major retail summit, Walmart&#8217;s incoming CEO John Furner and Google&#8217;s CEO Sundar Pichai announced a partnership to redefine the future of retail with AI.<\/li>\n<li>There is a surge of AI startups aiming to meet retail needs, from autonomous shelf-managing robots to personalized shopping assistants.<\/li>\n<li>The term &#8220;agentic AI&#8221; describes the autonomous bots guiding customers through purchases; various retailers have developed distinct AI agents for different purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Retailers emphasize that they intend to use AI to enhance employees&#8217; work rather than replace them, citing examples like LVMH\u2019s use of AI to boost designers\u2019 creativity.<\/li>\n<li>Even the smallest retail chains, like 7-Eleven, are leveraging AI for staff hiring processes, enhancing efficiency and candidate engagement.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the excitement, there is caution surrounding AI&#8217;s potential to provide incorrect information or advice, as Home Depot and Tractor Supply highlight the importance of accurate AI-generated content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/17\/business\/tech-firms-ai-retailers.html Publish Date: 2026-01-17 05:02:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/19\/multimedia\/19biz-ai-retail-B1\/16biz-ai-retail-tfql-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-179188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179190,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179188\/revisions\/179190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}