AI Is Changing E-commerce: Amazon Blocks AI Agents, Walmart Embraces Them
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Vídeo em Inglês, publicado pelo canal Ailoitte.
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Video summary
The video discusses the emergence of agentic commerce, highlighting the contrasting approaches of Amazon and Shopify toward AI bots, and advises store owners to optimize their websites for AI agents.
Key points
- Agentic commerce is arriving, with major players already taking different actions regarding AI bots.
- Amazon has blocked Meta AI bots from its website, while Shopify has made its catalogs available for agents.
- An estimated 80% to 90% of shopping and e-commerce store activities are projected to be conducted by AI in the future.
- Store owners should prepare their websites for AI agents by making catalogs readable, allowing agents to read offers and terms, and enabling them to place orders and track them.
- AI agents represent a new type of user, shifting the focus from the last 20 years of optimization solely for humans.
Topics
Agentic CommerceAI BotsAmazonShopifyE-commerce Optimization
Video transcript
Transcript from available captions; it may contain errors.
Aentic commerce is here. Already big players are doing big things. You might have heard about recently Amazon has blocked you know Meta AI bots to do any stuff [music] on their website. Whereas at same time there is another player Shopify they enabled entire [music] their catalogs to available for agents. So there is a big debate in the market [music] who is right who is wrong. I'm not sure who is going to be right who is wrong but one thing is very much very much clear [music] that there is agentic commerce is coming I believe 80 to 90% shopping and other things are going [music] to happen on the all these e-commerce stores going to be done by AI why it matters for you is if Amazon is not doing for you I think you should make your website or your store ready for agents so making ready for agents means just ensure that all your Cataloges are readable to agents, right? It can read offers what is what you are running, right? Agents [music] can read offers. It can act on the behalf of the actual users. It can read [music] the terms and conditions and then it can place orders and and so and so forth and do the tracking. So go ahead and optimize your store [music] uh for the agent, right? And and over the time we have to see okay who is good. I'm sure according to my according to [music] me right as per my opinion and as I understand the agentic world and how it is [music] transforming from last couple of months to to what I can envision in the envision the futures of agentic AI right of course agent is going maybe very soon you might [music] might heard that that Amazon has changed their plan or their mind and they have also allowed agents because agents are going to be next users last 20 years these all stores are optimized for human. Now this is the time there is another user came in pictures and you can't ignore them [music] and that's a agent. Go ahead and optimize your stores and I'm sure in next couple of weeks you'll start noticing there is something happening.
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Assuntos: E-commerce, Plataformas e marketplaces, IA e tendências. Publicado no YouTube em 2026-11-01.
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