Amazon and Walmart Advance AI Agent Shopping
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On November 10, 2026, PYMNTS reported that Amazon and Walmart are pushing AI agents to play a greater role in business procurement and everyday shopping, bringing them closer to shopping decisions and actual purchases. Walmart’s Sparky can create a shopping cart from a photo of a handwritten list or a digital list, and offers product recommendations, recipes, and in-store item-finding features; voice functionality is expected to roll out across the entire chain by year-end. At Amazon, the agentic mode in AWS Marketplace increased conversion rates from about 3% to 6%. The report also noted that this figure does not represent Amazon Business’s overall procurement performance.
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- PYMNTSAmazon and Walmart bring AI agents closer to shopping decisions and purchases
Amazon and Walmart are each bringing AI agents into enterprise procurement and everyday shopping, moving agents closer to actual purchase decisions. Walmart’s Sparky can create a shopping cart from a photo of a handwritten list or a digital list, and offers product recommendations, recipes, and in-store item-finding features; voice capabilities are expected to roll out across the entire chain by the end of the year. The agent mode on AWS Marketplace increased conversion rates from about 3% to 6%, but this does not represent Amazon Business’s overall procurement performance.
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