When Walmart's AI Starts Spending Your Ad Budget: The Agentic Commerce Shift Nobody's Talking About

The retail industry is undergoing a fundamental shift from keyword-based advertising to conversational, intent-driven commerce powered by agentic AI. Walmart's Marty advertising assistant and similar tools from Amazon signal that we're moving from a world where humans search for products to one where AI agents understand what we need and autonomously complete shopping tasks on our behalf.