{"id":242105,"date":"2026-07-10T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/retails-best-customer-now-arrives-from-chatgpt\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:10:13","slug":"retails-best-customer-now-arrives-from-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/retails-best-customer-now-arrives-from-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail\u2019s Best Customer Now Arrives From ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/retails-best-customer-now-arrives-from-chatgpt\/\">Retail\u2019s Best Customer Now Arrives From ChatGPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/retails-best-customer-now-arrives-from-chatgpt\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/retails-best-customer-now-arrives-from-chatgpt\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-10 14:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) referred traffic on Shopify is leading to significantly higher conversion rates and average order values compared to organic search traffic.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The effectiveness of AI refers is due to a phenomenon Shopify calls &#8220;journey compression,&#8221; where AI platforms complete the discovery and consideration stages beforehand, sending more pre-qualified buyers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>AI-referred traffic is growing much faster than non-AI traffic: a 393% year-over-year growth in the first quarter of 2026 compared with other channels like social and mobile.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>According to PYMNTS Intelligence, 47% of eCommerce shoppers recently used AI in their purchasing process, including a substantial shift in product research tools dominance from Amazon to ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>AI-referred shoppers not only convert more efficiently but also spend more time on site and browse more pages per visit once they arrive, leading to higher revenue per visit.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>As AI becomes more integral to the shopping discovery process, brands that optimize their presence within these AI flows are better positioned to reach high-converting, first-visit customers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>There&#8217;s a competitive gap, as about a quarter of retailers&#8217; homepage content hasn&#8217;t been tailored for AI systems, which is a missed opportunity for many brands.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail\u2019s Best Customer Now Arrives From ChatGPT https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/retails-best-customer-now-arrives-from-chatgpt\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-10 14:50:00 Source Domain: www.pymnts.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AI-agent-shopping1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-242105","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\/242105"}],"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=242105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242107,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242105\/revisions\/242107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}