Walmart's leaders announced the number of users for the company’s AI shopping bot, "Sparky," jumped by 100% in the last quarter alone. The same Sparky that drove customers to spend 35% MORE than average. “It’s been a little surprising to me that there hasn’t been more conversation about this."
Lindsay OwensI enjoyed talking w/ @samjsutton.bsky.social for this incredibly important @politico.com story in MM, but loved reading it. @markwarner.bsky.social is clearly fired up about the potential harms of agentic commerce for consumers. This is a trillion dollar industry by 2030–Google has a Warner problem.