{"id":239412,"date":"2026-07-01T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/ai-shopping-assistants-jump-to-the-top-of-retail-budgets\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:15:22","slug":"ai-shopping-assistants-jump-to-the-top-of-retail-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/ai-shopping-assistants-jump-to-the-top-of-retail-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Shopping Assistants Jump to the Top of Retail Budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/ai-shopping-assistants-top-retail-budgets\/\">AI Shopping Assistants Jump to the Top of Retail Budgets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/ai-shopping-assistants-top-retail-budgets\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/ai-shopping-assistants-top-retail-budgets\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-01 18:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Retailers are increasingly prioritizing AI shopping assistants for future investments, citing them as the most frequently cited digital capability to be developed.<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 47% of online shoppers currently use AI tools during their purchase processes, and this figure is expected to rise to 64% within the next two years.<\/li>\n<li>There is a noticeable shift in investment focus from legacy digital capabilities to AI, leading to reduced emphasis on features like cross-channel shopping, stored payment methods, and mobile apps.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the reduced investment, consumer demand for established features like price matching, loyalty programs, and free shipping still exceeds merchant offerings.<\/li>\n<li>This shift suggests retailers are making targeted investment decisions based on expected returns from AI against diminishing returns on existing traditional digital features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Shopping Assistants Jump to the Top of Retail Budgets https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/ai-shopping-assistants-top-retail-budgets\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-01 18:11:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AI-shopping-eCommerce-retail.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239412"}],"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=239412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239414,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239412\/revisions\/239414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}