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Prodx · Retail Grocery Technology Issue 04 · September 2026 · What runs beneath everything in grocery retail The Layer Your Catalog Is an API Now The story this month isn’t that another grocer launched an AI assistant. Several did. The story is that agentic surfaces started appearing on retailers’ catalogs whether or not the […]

Prodx · Retail Grocery Technology Issue 03 · August 2026 · What runs beneath everything in grocery retail The Layer When Grocery Merges, the First Question Is Always About the Data The Kroger/Giant Eagle acquisition is the biggest grocery story of the summer — $1.65 billion, 197 supermarkets, close expected in 2027. But the integration […]

Prodx · Grocery eCommerce Intelligence · 2026 The Product Detail Page Problem Grocery eCommerce has spent a decade optimizing the path to the product page. Almost no one has optimized what happens on it. The result is a revenue gap that doesn’t show up in standard analytics — and doesn’t get fixed until someone goes […]

Thought Leadership · Grocery eCommerce Grocery retail is having a moment of AI confidence. Executives are confirming that AI-generated product descriptions are live and working. AI-powered conversational search is showing up in production, with sponsored placements riding along inside it. Competitors are publishing detailed field guides about the billions of tokens they’ve pushed through internal […]

Issue 02 · July 2026 · The infrastructure layer beneath grocery’s AI moment The Fold The Standard Has Been Set. Now What? Last month we asked whether your AI initiative was confident in the model or confident in the data. This month, someone answered the question — by writing it into a standard. In June, […]

Thought Leadership · Grocery eCommerce Grocery retailers are building AI-powered loyalty programs, health scoring engines, and personalized eCommerce experiences on top of product data that doesn’t structurally exist. Here’s what that costs — and what it takes to fix it. Grocery eCommerce is no longer optional infrastructure. It’s the primary battleground. By 2026, grocery is […]

Issue 01 · June 2026 · The infrastructure layer beneath grocery’s AI moment The Fold Your AI Is Only as Smart as Your Data Is Honest Walmart’s Sparky AI shopping agent is now live at scale — weekly active users up over 100% in a single quarter. The new capabilities sound impressive: personalized replenishment, meal […]