Albertsons Companies Collaborates with Google Cloud to Enhance Grocery Shopping with New AI-Powered Shopping Assistant

Google Cloud Launches Conversational Commerce Agent, Delivering AI-Enabled, Personalized Shopping Experiences for Customers SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA– September 10, 2025 — /PRNewswire/ — Google Cloud today announced Conversational Commerce agent, a new AI-powered solution on Vertex AI that provides an advanced product discovery experience for business-to-consumer (B2C) retailers. As AI rapidly reshapes the retail landscape, this tool will […]

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LearnWorlds to Unite Creators, Customer Education, and Corporate L&D Leaders With Fifth Annual Worlds of Learning Summit

Live for the first time, the free two-day virtual event, September 23–24, 2025, expects 14,000 + attendees with speakers from academia, startups, and global enterprises. 13+ unique sessions on AI & e-learning, regulation, behavioural science, and the future of learning. ATHENS, GREECE — September 10, 2025 — LearnWorlds, the e-learning platform that combines the power of […]

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Carhartt’s Marketing Commits to Core Audience of Skilled Laborers

Carhartt was founded in 1889 as a manufacturer of durable, high-quality workwear. More recently, rappers and fashionistas have made its utility pants, flannel shirts, insulated jackets and other apparel surprisingly en vogue. But the brand’s new “Made Possible” campaign is not a reaction to the brand’s newfound popularity beyond its core audience of laborers. Instead, […]

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CVS ExtraCare Plus: Is the Paid Loyalty Program Worth It?

CVS Pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS), is known for its ExtraCare loyalty program which offers discounts, coupons, and rewards to millions of shoppers. Publicly disclosed information reports membership of about 74 million people in Q1 2024. In 2019, the company added CarePass, a premium paid membership designed to deliver additional savings […]

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Dude Wipes CMO on Experiential Marketing and Potty Humor

Flushable wipes brand Dude Wipes shares its growth path to 10 million households, its plan for 200 events this year and its recent ‘smear’ campaign. If you’re not into potty humor, a marketing collaboration with Dude Wipes is off the table.   The brand manufacturer of flushable wipes knows its product, audience and lane (“cheeky” bathroom humor) […]

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Banks, Fintechs, and the Great Data Debate

Token for your thoughts? A flurry of activity indicates the technology may have hit an inflection point in the financial industry, as companies look to buffer against digital fraudsters and ensure transactions settle faster in an environment where threats to money transfers appear to be exponentially increasing due to the sophistication of AI technology.  Tokenizing […]

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SOLO’s CEO on the data and banking dilemma

“We all play duplicative roles, which is why a network model is what we built as the solution for this open-access problem. So it’s much more complex than, the fintechs are on one side and the banks are another.”  Amidst the litigious frenzy that threw the future of open banking in the air, SOLO, a […]

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#703: Marriott Bonvoy Leads the Way in Global Hospitality Loyalty

This episode is also available in video format on www.Loyalty.TV and on our Youtube channel. Jitendra Jain is VP PRISMA EMEA for Marriott Bonvoy.  PRISMA stands for Partnerships, Revenue Operations, Insights, Strategy Marriott Bonvoy & Analytics. Marriott Bonvoy is the largest hospitality loyalty brand in the world with 248 million members. Two out of three stays are loyalty members at Marriotthotels worldwide. Marriott Bonvoy has an impressive […]

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EBay Readies for AI Search Shift

With billions of listings on eBay.com, the marketplace is no stranger to the complexities of matching unique products to consumer search queries.   And with more than a quarter of eBay’s traffic stemming from organic search (according to web analysis firm SimilarWeb) the merchant has to continually ensure that search engines can easily crawl its […]

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Robots Have Entered the AI Race

The AI rivalry between the U.S. and China has a new front: the physical world of robotics.  China announced this week its X?Square Robot open-sourced Wall?OSS, its foundational model for embodied intelligence, making it available to developers on GitHub and Hugging Face.  Just as Linux going open source upended the software world and pioneered the […]

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