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AI Agent Shopping Upends Retail Media

Mason

23 May 2026 — 1 min read

The foundational assumption of retail media networks—monetizing human attention at checkout—is being upended by the rise of agentic commerce, where software agents initiate, compare, and complete transactions on behalf of consumers, redefining the digital shelf and revenue models.

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