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Commerce Supports Universal Commerce Protocol, Plans to Offer Buying Directly Across Google’s AI Surfaces

New standard creates a common language for agents and systems across the entire shopping journey from discovery and buying to post-purchase experiences

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Commerce (Nasdaq: CMRC), an open, intelligent ecosystem of technology solutions and the parent company of leading ecommerce platform BigCommerce and data feed optimization leader Feedonomics, today announced its endorsement of Google’s new Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).

The new, open-source standard creates a common language for agents and systems to work together across the entire shopping journey from discovery and buying to post-purchase experiences. So instead of building a new connection for every agent, they can all interact seamlessly providing merchants with a frictionless way to reach customers across the entire AI ecosystem.

“AI is rapidly reshaping commerce. Merchants need to make it easy for shoppers to go from discovery to purchase, or they risk losing sales,” said Sharon Gee, senior vice president of product for AI at Commerce. “At the same time, keeping product data structured and enriched for AI can be resource-intensive. Our ongoing work with Google ensures merchants are not only present but competitive in AI-driven environments where consumers are searching and shopping.”

To start, UCP will soon enable a new checkout feature on product listings in AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, allowing shoppers to buy directly from eligible US retailers and Commerce merchants right as they’re researching on Google.

“For agentic commerce to scale, it’s critical for the industry to align on a common set of standards,” said Ashish Gupta, vice president and general manager of merchant shopping at Google. “We are proud to have Commerce endorse the Universal Commerce Protocol as the foundation for that future.”

Discovery is shifting from traditional search that returns results to a specific query to conversational answer engines with embedded buying opportunities. Agent-driven shopping generates more specific, higher intent queries with consumers who know what they want and are ready to purchase it. Merchants must be strategic about how they show up in answer engines and remove barriers that prevent shoppers from making a purchase.

As part of the collaboration, Commerce is building toward the protocol to allow merchants to:

  • Enable buying directly within Google’s AI experiences, helping to secure transactions at the moment of intent
  • Remain merchant of record, retaining full ownership of the customer relationship and transaction data
  • Future-proof their business with a unified open standard to power additional commerce actions

The UCP endorsement builds on the ongoing Google and Commerce partnership, utilizing Commerce’s key differentiator: its Feedonomics-powered data enrichment layer. This layer structures and optimizes product feeds to align with Google’s schema, dynamically enhancing titles, attributes, and taxonomy to ensure high-quality data that boosts product visibility, improves match rates, and conversion with the Google ecosystem.

Learn more about Google’s new UCP here: https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/agentic-commerce-ai-tools-protocol-retailers-platforms/

Learn more about how Commerce is powering the era of agentic commerce here: https://www.commerce.com/agentic-commerce/

About Commerce


Commerce
 (Nasdaq: CMRC) empowers businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive by providing an open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift, Commerce connects the tools and systems that power growth, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data, deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel, and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. Trusted by leading businesses like Coldwater Creek, Cole Haan, Harvey Nichols, King Arthur Baking Co., Mizuno, Perry Ellis, SportsShoes and Uplift Desk, Commerce delivers the storefront control, optimized data, and AI-ready tools businesses need to grow, serve diverse buyers, and operate with confidence in an increasingly intelligent, multi-surface world. For more information, visit commerce.com or follow us on X and LinkedIn.

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Honeywell Unveils AI-Enabled Technology to Personalize In-store Shopping with Google Cloud

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New Smart Shopping Platform, developed in collaboration with 66degrees, brings digitally enhanced personalization and navigation to the brick-and-mortar retail environment with Google’s AI.

NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) today announced the launch of an AI-enabled retail solution developed in collaboration with Google Cloud and 66degrees that leverages Google’s Gemini and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform to transform the in-store shopping experience for retailers worldwide. The Smart Shopping Platform helps shoppers easily locate desired products, compare similar items and quickly find relevant substitutions when products are unavailable, making in-store shopping more efficient and enjoyable.

“There is nothing more frustrating than roaming through a store unable to find the last item on your grocery list or forgetting the key part needed to complete a home repair,” said David Barker, president, Honeywell Productivity Solutions and Services. ”The Smart Shopping Platform addresses these pain points, creating a better experience for shoppers. Retailers also benefit from an ’out of the box’ AI solution they can implement without having to maintain a team of AI experts.”

The Smart Shopping Platform is a cloud-based solution that creates a seamless connection between a retailer’s digital data and the physical store environment. Built on Honeywell’s Mobility Edge™ hardware and software platform and enabled by Google Cloud’s AI technologies, it offers personalized guidance, real-time product information and dynamic recommendations that mirror the convenience of online shopping.

“The Smart Shopping Platform uses Google Cloud’s AI to turn Honeywell devices into intelligent companions for both shoppers and staff,” said Jose Gomes, vice president, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Google Cloud. “This collaboration integrates AI with specialized hardware to streamline operations inside the retail store and guide consumers through an efficient and delightful shopping journey. It’s a win-win that helps retailers increase basket size while building deeper customer loyalty.”

When using the platform on a Honeywell for Android device—such as the CS32 Personal Shopper—consumers can link their loyalty accounts to immediately unlock personalized recommendations based on buying history, stated preferences, complementary products and available discounts and promotions. The Smart Shopping Platform can also provide step-by-step navigation through the store to help customers easily locate everything they wish to buy. If a specific product is out of stock, the system uses AI to suggest relevant alternatives, mirroring the convenience of e-commerce.

The solution also supports retail workers by helping them become in-house experts. Associates equipped with devices like the Honeywell CT70 can use the Smart Shopping Platform to provide quick, customized guidance and insights to shoppers, helping every employee serve as a subject matter expert. For example, an employee can quickly identify the new location of a customer’s favorite dairy-free cereal in the store. Today, devices like the Honeywell CT70 are used by thousands of retail associates at major grocery chains, big box stores, specialty retailers, department stores and more.

This launch is the result of the ongoing collaboration between Honeywell and Google Cloud to help advance computing across multiple industries. The Smart Shopping Platform will be available to customers beginning in February 2026.

To learn more about Honeywell’s innovative solutions across the retail landscape, visit: https://automation.honeywell.com/us/en/solutions/productivity.

About Honeywell 

Honeywell is an integrated operating company serving a broad range of industries and geographies around the world, with a portfolio that is underpinned by our Honeywell Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Forge platform. As a trusted partner, we help organizations solve the world’s toughest, most complex challenges, providing actionable solutions and innovations for aerospace, building automation, industrial automation, process automation, and process technology, that help make the world smarter and safer as well as more secure and sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.

About Honeywell Productivity Solutions and Services

Productivity Solutions and Services creates mobile computers, scanners, software and other data capture devices to improve worker productivity across key industries like retail, transportation, logistics and healthcare. An innovator in Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) and a leader in industrial products since the 1970s, the business is shaping the future by finding novel ways to significantly improve the efficiency, speed and accuracy of our customers’ complex operations.

About Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated, and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models, and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

About 66degrees

66degrees is a Google Cloud Partner Advantage Premier level partner empowering organizations to thrive in the age of AI. The company delivers expertise in platform modernization, data transformation, and AI/ML implementation with a proven enterprise track record. With a global footprint of experts, 66degrees helps clients by focusing on three key pillars: modernizing data and infrastructure for AI, building AI platforms and applications, and managing and scaling those AI platforms.

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Kroger Scales Generative AI Strategy with Google Cloud to Drive Digital Growth and Personalization

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Kroger will use Google Cloud new agentic platform, Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, to simplify and transform how customers shop and eat

CINCINNATI and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) today announced an expanded relationship with Google Cloud. The leading grocery chain will use the Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience (CX) solution to support its customer experience transformation, combining cutting-edge technology with the care, food knowledge and understanding customers expect from Kroger – all into a new personal shopping assistant.

Under the expansion Kroger will roll out Gemini Enterprise for CX nationwide to help make grocery planning easier through an integrated Meal assistant and Shopping assistant –providing faster shopping, without compromising on unique customer preferences. 

In addition to deploying Gemini Enterprise for CX, Kroger will also use Customer Experience Agent Studio to analyze interactions and intent on calls made by customers to stores to proactively identify and resolve issues earlier, enhance associate productivity, and deliver a more seamless, “white-glove” experience nationwide.

“We know our customers want an experience that is seamless and adapts to the context of their day, and the Shopping assistant is one more way we will transform how our customers will engage with us,” said Yael Cosset, executive vice president and chief digital officer for Kroger. “A customer planning a week of dinners, seeking recipe inspiration, or jumping into a new food regimen, will be able to ask our integrated assistant to create a shopping list based on their immediate needs, their budget, and family’s unique preferences. We are streamlining every aspect of the shopping experience from building a basket and getting relevant offers and savings, to scheduling a delivery faster than ever before. We are making grocery shopping simpler and more personal, creating more time for real connections around foods families love.”

Building a Personal Shopping Companion

Kroger has been helping families find foods they love for nearly 150 years, by removing the need for customers to compromise on the choice of product, including innovative Our Brands products, offering more options to shop how they want in store, through pickup or delivery, and providing personalized offers and value to each customer.

Kroger’s Shopping assistant will build upon this foundation, reducing the time it takes to complete complex, multi-step tasks without requiring a lot of input from customers. The Shopping assistant incorporates AI-enabled features such as:

  • Intelligent execution: Agentic integration, allowing the assistant to complete complex tasks from a single instruction—such as explore meal ideas, build complex carts for a big occasion, reorder a past purchase, or compare product details.
  • Inspiration-to-cart flow: Converts a customer request, like “I want to prepare vegan tomato soup” into a guided recipe, with a detailed ingredient list, that can be added to their shopping carts with a single click.
  • Accurate and grounded: Makes recommendations based on Kroger’s proprietary data asset and grounded in actual assortment, pricing, and availability, meaning customers receive relevant, reliable suggestions they can act on immediately. The Shopping assistant takes advantage of Kroger’s precise understanding of customer needs, and will deliver a complete solution—from finding value, to planning, to purchasing a full meal—that every member of the family will enjoy.

“Kroger is pioneering the future of commerce by embracing true generative and agentic AI at the heart of their customer journey,” said Darshan Kantak, vice president of product for applied AI at Google Cloud. “With Gemini Enterprise for Commerce, Kroger will be setting a new standard for grocery, ensuring its agent becomes a comprehensive digital concierge across every customer touchpoint.”

About The Kroger Co.

At The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), we are dedicated to our Purpose: To Feed the Human Spirit™. We are, across our family of companies more than 400,000 associates who serve over 11 million customers daily through an eCommerce shopping experience and retail food stores under a variety of banner names, serving America through food inspiration and uplift, and creating #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities. To learn more about us, visit our newsroom and investor relations site.

About Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

 

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Walmart and Google Turn AI Discovery Into Effortless Shopping Experiences

Walmart and Google Turn AI Discovery Into Effortless Shopping Experiences

Expansive assortment, fast delivery and great prices combine with the power of Gemini to unlock delightful shopping journeys

BENTONVILLE, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today, Walmart Inc. and Google share plans to launch a new experience that pairs the intelligence of Google’s Gemini with Walmart and Sam’s Club’s unmatched assortment, value and convenience, to make shopping more intuitive, reliable and perfectly aligned with the rhythms of everyday life. The new experience — built by Walmart and accessible directly within Gemini using the Universal Commerce Protocol — addresses several key customer needs:

  • Great items, at great prices: Gemini will automatically include Walmart and Sam’s Club in-store and online products when it’s relevant. For example, when a customer asks for advice on camping equipment for the spring season, it will return items from the retailer’s large inventory of products. And since people talk back-and-forth with Gemini, there are more opportunities to show relevant products and services throughout the conversation.
  • Personalization and familiarity: When customers discover items in Gemini, Walmart helps them move from inspiration to purchase in a seamless, trusted experience — all within the familiar Walmart and Sam’s environments they know and love. When customers link their accounts, Walmart will recommend complementary items based on their past online and in-store purchases, combine their order with other items they’ve put in their Walmart or Sam’s Club carts, and provide all the benefits of their Walmart+ and Sam’s Club memberships.
  • Fast delivery: Customers and members can get in-store and club items delivered right where and when they want it, with hundreds of thousands of locally curated products delivered in under three hours and as fast as 30 minutes.

“The transition from traditional web or app search to agent-led commerce represents the next great evolution in retail. We aren’t just watching the shift, we are driving it,” said John Furner, President and CEO of Walmart U.S. and incoming President and CEO of Walmart Inc. “We want to help customers get what they need and want, when and where they want it. Partnering with Google to bring the Walmart experience directly into Gemini is another step toward creating seamless shopping experiences for customers and members that are more intuitive and personal than ever before.”

“AI can improve every step of the consumer journey, from discovery to delivery. Walmart is an innovator in retail and we are excited to partner with them on a new open standard to make agentic commerce a reality. Customers will soon be able to experience everything they love about Walmart directly in the Gemini app,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet.

The new experience will first launch directly within Gemini in the U.S. and internationally thereafter.

About Walmart

Walmart Inc. (Nasdaq: WMT) is a people-led, tech-powered omnichannel retailer helping people save money and live better — anytime and anywhere — in stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week, approximately 270 million customers and members visit more than 10,750 stores and numerous eCommerce websites in 19 countries. With fiscal year 2025 revenue of $681 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.1 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy, and employment opportunity. Additional information about Walmart can be found by visiting corporate.walmart.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/walmart, on X (formerly known as Twitter) at twitter.com/walmart, and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/walmart.

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The Home Depot and Google Cloud Launch Agentic AI Tools to Help Customers and Associates Bring Projects from ‘How-to’ to ‘Done’

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Expanded partnership introduces AI agents that go beyond advice to take action—giving customers project recommendations and managing complex material orders for pros

NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today at NRF 2026, The Home Depot and Google Cloud announced an expansion of their strategic partnership, further advancing the interconnected retail experience with new agentic AI tools that provide real-time, expert assistance to homeowners and professional customers (pros) like contractors, renovators and remodelers.

Through the deployment of Google Cloud’s AI, The Home Depot is extending its home improvement expertise from the store aisles to customers’ fingertips, including new capabilities in its Magic Apron assistant, AI-powered product list builders for pros, and new tools to improve customer and store support. By deploying Google Cloud’s Gemini models and Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience (CX), the company is creating a native “AI-first” experience that is personalized, contextual and available wherever the customer is—from the living room to the jobsite to the shelves.

Looking ahead, these capabilities will expand beyond The Home Depot’s own platforms as the company participates in new, agentic shopping experiences across AI Mode in Google Search and the Gemini app in the coming months.

“The Home Depot has always been about providing excellent customer service,” said Jordan Broggi, EVP Customer Experience and President – Online, The Home Depot. “By building on Google Cloud’s AI solutions, we’re putting ‘Orange Apron’ expertise in the pocket of every customer and creating an AI experience that is personalized, contextual, and available wherever the customer is—whether that’s the home, the jobsite, or in the aisles of our stores.”

“We are entering a new chapter of retail where technology doesn’t just suggest products—it solves problems,” said Jose Gomes, vice president, Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods at Google Cloud. “The Home Depot is leading in the agentic commerce era, and using AI to deliver real-world value. By integrating Google Cloud’s AI, The Home Depot is ensuring that customer interactions—whether from a pro on a jobsite or a shopper in an aisle—are powered by the most sophisticated intelligence available today.”

Magic Apron Assistant provides conversational home improvement recommendations and project expertise

The Home Depot significantly expanded its Magic Apron suite of AI tools, transforming them from a simple AI assistant on homedepot.com product pages into conversational, expert digital companions for DIYers and pros across Home Depot digital platforms. Customers can now describe their projects in plain language, and Magic Apron moves beyond simple search results to provide expert conversational advice and personalized recommendations for everything from how to fix a leaky faucet to full kitchen remodels. By integrating the Shopping agent from Gemini Enterprise for CX, The Home Depot is enhancing its Magic Apron platform which will soon have advanced multimodal capabilities, including image upload and visualization that allows the digital concierge to intuitively guide customers through complex home improvement projects.

The Home Depot also built a new store experience in Magic Apron, which integrates the agentic AI experience with real-time local store inventory and product locations—combining its proprietary home improvement knowledge and store wayfinding guidance right in a customer’s pocket. As one of the first localized AI agents of its kind in retail, this expanded functionality provides aisle-level precision, directing customers to the exact bay for any item and offering technical guidance in the aisles. If a customer asks “What grout works best with glass tiles?” Magic Apron will not only provide how-to guides and recommend unsanded or epoxy grout, but it will also show the customer exactly where to find that product in the store and what additional materials the shopper may want to buy. Currently testing at select stores, the company plans to roll out this in-store experience nationwide in the coming months.

Accelerating pro workflows with AI-powered materials lists

For pro customers like renovators, remodelers, and contractors, The Home Depot will offer a new AI-powered materials list feature on its pro digital site. The new feature allows pros to describe a project via voice or text, or even upload a list of products the pro already has. The agent then interprets the project intent to quickly generate a comprehensive, grouped list of materials, even suggesting essential missed items required for the job—significantly accelerating the estimating and planning process for pros. Launched in beta in November 2025 and scaling nationally this month, these lists can help pros generate accurate quotes in a fraction of the time it used to take, so they can focus on bringing in new business more quickly and seamlessly.

Precision at the pavement with AI-powered route intelligence

The Home Depot built a smarter last mile with new route intelligence powered by Gemini and Google Maps Platform. This system predicts and prevents delivery failures by layering customer-specific data—like operating hours and drop-off preferences—with external factors like weather and road quality. Leveraging multimodal AI, the platform interprets Google Maps to spot potential access blockers such as narrow or unpaved streets, gated entries or posts that would make delivery or entry difficult. The new feature unlocks predictive capabilities to anticipate and mitigate delivery risks, ensuring a reliable and consistent customer experience. And by alerting drivers where large trucks may struggle to turn or offload, the system will soon be able to recommend the right equipment and crew size to ensure even the most complex sites receive on-time, complete deliveries.

Bringing a new level of customer service with AI-powered chat, SMS, and voice

The Home Depot is redefining how customers get help by replacing rigid, menu-driven automation with conversational AI that understands intent and resolves issues in real-time. Live today across SMS, chat and phone, the platform allows customers to speak naturally, eliminating the friction and dead ends common in traditional service experiences.

Powered by Gemini Enterprise for CX, the approach is already delivering materially better engagement and resolution outcomes, proving that conversational AI can move beyond deflection of issues to drive real customer impact at enterprise scale. Building on this momentum, The Home Depot is now testing next-generation AI voice agents in select stores, enabling associates to focus on the most complex customer needs.

Gemini Enterprise empowers associates at the Store Support Center

The Home Depot is one of the first companies to equip thousands of associates with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise, a new agentic platform that automates end-to-end business processes. At the company’s Store Support Center, Gemini Enterprise equips teams with specialized agents to automate workflows in seconds, from more easily predicting project bottlenecks, to drafting marketing copy and auditing digital designs. By offloading routine execution, associates can focus on creative problem solving, high-impact strategy, and long-term growth.

About The Home Depot

The Home Depot is the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer.  At the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2025, the company operated a total of 2,356 retail stores and over 1,200 SRS locations across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. The Company employs over 470,000 associates. The Home Depot’s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500 index.

About Google        

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Google Cloud, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. 

 

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Papa Johns and Google Cloud Reimagine the Future of Food Ordering to Better Serve Customers

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Using Google Cloud’s new agentic solution, Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, Papa Johns is the first restaurant to bring new omnichannel food ordering capabilities to market

NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today at NRF 2026, Papa Johns announced a major transformation of its digital ordering experience, designed to deliver speed, accuracy, and real-time personalization to its 150 million+ customers worldwide. The QSR leader is the first partner for Google Cloud’s newly expanded AI solution, Food Ordering agent, which is helping the pizza brand deploy a fully unified voice and text AI ordering system to remove friction across customer touchpoints. The Food Ordering agent is a part of Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, an agentic solution designed to bring commerce and customer service together on an intelligence backbone.

Moving beyond its initial success in drive-thru automation, Food Ordering agent is a comprehensive omnichannel platform that enables brands to deploy high-quality voice AI agents across mobile apps, websites, telephones, kiosks, and in-car systems. By serving as Google Cloud’s launch customer for these new capabilities, Papa Johns is establishing a new industry benchmark for the “agentic” customer experience.

“Papa Johns is a digitally-driven business and, as such, one of our strategic priorities is investing in our technology to deliver a more seamless experience across our assets and owned channels, better connect with our customers, and support greater efficiency across our operations by leveraging data and AI,” said Kevin Vasconi, chief digital and technology officer, Papa Johns. “Our partnership with Google Cloud embodies our commitment to doing exactly that. We’re using Google Cloud’s Food Ordering agent to reimagine what’s possible for our customers. This isn’t just an app update; it’s a fundamental shift in how our customers interact with our brand digitally, making it faster, smarter, and more seamless than ever before.”

With Food Ordering agent, Papa Johns has developed key features to improve the customer experience, including:

  • Increasing sales through seamless offer navigation: The “Intelligent Deal Wizard” functions as a personal concierge that automatically applies the best value combinations and reduces cart abandonment. This builds immediate brand loyalty and accelerates the checkout process by removing the need for customers to leave the app to hunt for better promo codes.
  • Automating complex orders with precision: The “Advanced Voice & Group Ordering” feature captures revenue from complicated, multi-person orders that traditionally required human intervention. The system handles natural language nuances and real-time modifications with ease, ensuring order accuracy even for the most complex requests.
  • Seamless, no-tap reordering flow: The agent identifies Papa Rewards returning loyalty customers and proactively asks whether they want to reorder their most recent orders. Because many pizza customers often order the same items, enabling a speedy, convenient flow from opening the app to checking out is paramount.

“The retail industry is entering the era of agentic commerce, where AI is an engine for business value,” said Carrie Tharp, vice president of global solutions and industries at Google Cloud. “By being the first to deploy our omnichannel Food Ordering agent, Papa Johns is moving beyond the chatbot era to create a fluid, intelligent experience that meets hungry customers wherever they are, whether they are in their car, on an app, or at a kiosk.”

Papa Johns will be showcasing this technology at the Google Cloud booth 5507 at NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show in NYC, offering live demos of these new capabilities to attendees, and then to customers nationwide by the end of 2026.

About Papa Johns 

Papa John’s International, Inc. (Nasdaq: PZZA) opened its doors in 1984 with one goal in mind: BETTER INGREDIENTS. BETTER PIZZA.® Papa Johns believes that using high-quality ingredients leads to superior quality pizzas. Its original dough is made of only six ingredients and is fresh, never frozen. Papa Johns tops its pizzas with real cheese made from mozzarella, pizza sauce made with vine-ripened tomatoes that go from vine to can in the same day and meat free of fillers. It was the first national pizza delivery chain to announce the removal of artificial flavors and synthetic colors from its entire food menu. Papa Johns is co-headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. and Louisville, Ky. and is the world’s third-largest pizza delivery company with more than 6,000 restaurants in approximately 50 countries and territories. For more information about the company or to order pizza online, visit www.PapaJohns.com or download the Papa Johns mobile app for iOS or Android.

About Google Cloud 

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

 

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RxSight, Inc. Announces Preliminary Q4 and 2025 Financial Results; New Chief Financial Officer

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Jan. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — (Nasdaq: RXST) — RxSight, Inc., an ophthalmic medical device company dedicated to providing high-quality customized vision to patients following cataract surgery, today announced certain preliminary unaudited financial and operational results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2025. In addition, the company provided an update on the previously announced Chief Financial Officer transition.

Preliminary Unaudited Fourth Quarter and Full-year 2025 Results

  • Preliminary unaudited fourth quarter 2025 revenue is expected to be approximately $32.6 million, driven by:
    • The sale of 28,611 Light Adjustable Lenses (LAL™/LAL+®); representing a 10% increase in procedure volume compared to the third quarter of 2025; and
    • The sale of 25 Light Delivery Devices (LDD™s), expanding the installed base to 1,134 LDDs as of December 31, 2025.
  • Preliminary unaudited 2025 fiscal year revenue is expected to be approximately $134.5 million, versus November guidance of $125 to $130 million, reflecting:
    • The sale of 109,615 LALs, representing a 12% increase in procedure volume compared to 2024; and
    • The sale of 163 LDDs.
  • Preliminary unaudited cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of December 31, 2025, are expected to be $228.1 million.
  • Audited full-year 2025 financial results and full-year 2026 guidance will be announced in conjunction with the company’s fourth quarter earnings release in February.

“Procedure trends during the quarter reflected a continued, measured pace of stabilization and recovery, and we remain encouraged by strong engagement across the field as our unified commercial team deepens customer relationships,” said Ron Kurtz, Chief Executive Officer and President of RxSight. “Despite headwinds in 2025, our team made meaningful progress, enabling us to treat more patients than ever before. With more than 1,100 LDDs installed, approximately 10% share of the premium IOL market, and adoption by over 25% of U.S. cataract surgeons, we exited the year in a strengthened position for sustained, long-term growth.”

New Chief Financial Officer

The company is also pleased to announce that Mark Wilterding has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective January 11, 2026. Mark will report to Ron Kurtz and will be responsible for overseeing the company’s finance organization. 

“We are excited to welcome Mark as RxSight’s new Chief Financial Officer”, said Ron Kurtz. “Mark has a proven track record of building strong teams, partnering with key Medtech stakeholders, and driving operational excellence. His leadership and expertise will be particularly valuable as we continue to position RxSight for the future.”

Mr. Wilterding has more than 25 years of financial leadership experience, most recently serving as the Senior Vice President of Global Finance for Edwards Lifesciences, where he joined in 2019. In this role, he oversaw investor relations, financial planning and analysis, treasury, financial operations and strategy, and regional finance teams. Prior to joining Edwards Lifesciences, Mr. Wilterding worked for Medtronic and spent the first 15 years of his career at Citi and Credit Suisse. He received a B.A. in economics from St. Olaf College and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

“I am thrilled to be joining RxSight, a company offering the only adjustable IOL technology, which is redefining the premium category”, said Mark Wilterding. “RxSight products deliver meaningful value to patients and surgeons, and I am looking forward to supporting their continued advancement as we aim to drive long-term, sustainable growth and shareholder value.”

As previously communicated, Shelley Thunen will support the company in a consulting capacity.

The company’s fourth quarter and full-year 2025 financial and operational results are preliminary and are subject to the completion of the company’s 2025 audit. Audited full-year 2025 and unaudited fourth quarter 2025 financial results are expected to be announced in February 2026.

About RxSight, Inc
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RxSight, Inc. is an ophthalmic medical device company dedicated to providing high-quality customized vision to patients following cataract surgery. The RxSight® Light Adjustable Lens system, comprised of the RxSight Light Adjustable Lens® (LAL®/LAL+®, collectively the “LAL”), RxSight Light Delivery Device (LDD™) and accessories, is the first and only commercially available intraocular lens (IOL) technology that can be adjusted after surgery, enabling doctors to customize and deliver high-quality vision to patients after cataract surgery. Additional information about RxSight can be found at www.rxsight.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including: statements concerning: the company’s preliminary unaudited fourth quarter and fiscal 2025 financial and operational results and the anticipated timing of announcing audited full-year 2025 and unaudited fourth quarter 2025 financial results; procedure trends, including the pace of stabilization and recovery in the company’s business; engagement across the field and the ability of the company’s unified commercial team to deepen customer relationships; the growing recognition of the value delivered by the company’s adjustable intraocular lens technology to patients and doctors; expectations regarding continued adoption of the RxSight system, including utilization across the company’s installed base of more than 1,100 Light Delivery Devices, adoption by a meaningful portion of U.S. cataract surgeons, and penetration within the premium IOL market; the company’s ability to treat more patients over time; the company’s plans to continue innovating its adjustable IOL technology and products; the belief that adjustable IOL technology is redefining the premium category and can support sustained, long-term growth; and the potential of the company’s technology, products, and leadership team to drive long-term, sustainable growth and shareholder value. Such statements relate to future events or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our or our industry’s actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed, implied or inferred by these forward-looking statements, including those risks described in the company’s prior press releases and the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including in Part II, Item 1A (Risk Factors) of the company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, filed with the SEC on November 5, 2025, and any subsequent filings with the SEC. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “projects,” “potential,” or “continue” or the negative of such terms and other same terminology. These statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future events. You should not place undue reliance on these statements. Actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating these statements, you should specifically consider various factors. These and other factors may cause our actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statement. We undertake no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to conform those statements to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by applicable law.

Preliminary Estimates

The foregoing financial and operational results are preliminary estimates. We are in the process of finalizing our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025, and our actual results remain subject to completion of those financial statements and their audit by our independent registered public accounting firm. These preliminary estimates are based on information available to management as of the date of this press release and certain related assumptions, which could prove incorrect. Our actual, reported results of operations could differ based on completion of our year end closing procedures, final adjustments and developments that may arise prior to completion of our annual financial statements, and adjustments arising from the audit by our independent registered public accounting firm. You should carefully review our audited, consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025 when they become available.

Company contact:

Mark Wilterding
Chief Financial Officer
[email protected]

Investor Relations Contact:

Oliver Moravcevic
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Supermicro Announces Intelligent In-Store Retail Solutions in Collaboration with a Broad Range of Industry Partners

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  • Innovative technologies enable retailers to implement intelligent stores at scale to deliver smarter, more responsive shopping experiences
  • Industry partners to display production-ready AI solutions for loss prevention, digital twins, AI agents, customer analytics, and more

SAN JOSE, Calif. and NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Retail’s Big Show — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced collaboration with technology partners for AI-powered intelligent in-store retail solutions designed to meet increasing customer expectations with scalability, improved productivity and increased profitability.

“AI is reshaping shopping experiences, enabling real-time analysis of video and other data to give retailers actionable insights to optimizing staff efficiency, reducing shrinkage, increasing profits, and avoiding stock-outs,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. “By combining Supermicro’s complete and scalable AI platforms with NVIDIA RTX PRO accelerated computing solutions, we’re enabling retailers to build intelligent stores that maximize the benefits of AI-driven applications.”

According to the latest NVIDIA State of AI in Retail & CPG report, 89% of respondents reported that AI is helping to increase annual revenue, while 95% said it is helping decrease annual costs, highlighting the measurable business impact retailers are already achieving because of AI1.

For more information, please visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/edge/servers

Supermicro Complete and Scalable Edge AI Infrastructure

Retail-centric AI applications require sub-second responsiveness which is only possible, at scale, if data is processed directly at the edge. Supermicro’s Edge AI infrastructure enables the deployment of solutions in distributed environments, such as intelligent retail stores and supply chains, to provide a complete solution.

Deploying at the edge presents a myriad of unique challenges in comparison to the data center. Supermicro’s broad Edge AI portfolio of products helps customers and partners overcome these challenges while striking the right balance between performance and ROI.

For deployments in harsh environments where conditioned space is not available, the fanless E103 series of products bring AI processing power where it couldn’t go before. Supermicro also offers a fanned small form factor E300 series systems with AI capabilities.

When there is a demanding AI workload at the edge, customers and partners can turn to numerous systems capable of holding the latest discrete GPUs for AI acceleration. Ranging from 1U short-depth to larger 4U form factors, solutions can be right-sized to meet the customer’s needs by enabling the latest generation of NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell series.

Supermicro Intelligent Store Partners

Supermicro is collaborating with ecosystem partners including Everseen, Kinetic Vision, ALLSIDES, LiveX, WobotAI, and Aible, to create intelligent stores that positively impact day-to-day retail operations as well as longer term supply chain management.

  • Everseen’s Evercheck solution uses Vision AI to help reduce shrink and improve staff productivity and customer experiences. Built on the Everseen Vision AI platform, Evercheck detects, and deters recovery of unwanted behaviors at checkout, helping retailers recover losses and streamline front-of-store operations.

“Everseen has spent years working alongside some of the world’s largest retailers, understanding the realities of the store floor and solving loss challenges where they actually happen,” said Joe White, CEO of Everseen. “By partnering with Supermicro and leveraging NVIDIA-accelerated computing, Evercheck delivers real-time computer vision at the edge – transforming store activity into intelligence retailers can act on immediately.”

  • Wobot AI, focused on building Video AI Agents for the physical world, will be demonstrating how the cameras retailers already own can be turned into systems that continuously observe, learn, and produce usable insight. By converting ordinary CCTV infrastructure into autonomous agents that recognize patterns, identify friction, and surface decisions, Wobot’s AI Agents enable retailers to improve day-to-day operations with practical and measurable outcomes.

“By working with Supermicro and NVIDIA at the edge, we’re able to deploy Video AI Agents in a way that’s scalable, reliable, and focused on real-time operational insight—not experimentation,” said Will Kelso, President, Revenue & Growth at Wobot AI.

  • LiveX AI – “Retail is entering an era where AI agents become the default interaction layer between brands and customers,” said Jerry Li, Co-Founder and CEO of LiveX AI. “With NVIDIA’s accelerated AI and Supermicro’s edge infrastructure, we can deploy a helpful, human-like AI agent directly in physical spaces—such as kiosks or holograms—bringing the speed, intelligence, and continuity of digital experiences into brick-and-mortar environments. This collaboration makes AI agents usable, in real time, where customers actually are.”
    • Kinetic Vision and ALLSIDES are bundling their expertise for a True Digital Twin solution designed to develop, test, and optimize supply chain processes, checkout stations, and other complex systems.

“The combination of Supermicro’s high reliability optimized infrastructure and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing stack gives Kinetic Vision the foundation to innovate at speed. Together, we are helping retailers move from experimentation to production-ready AI solutions that drive measurable operational and customer experience gains,” says Jeremy Jarratt, Kinetic Vision CEO.

Franz Tschimben, CEO at ALLSIDES, adds: “Building on the combined strengths of NVIDIA and Supermicro, we deliver a high-fidelity 3D digital twin data layer for AI training that enables retailers to power applications across the entire retail value chain — from training robots with physical AI, to production and production planning, virtual store layouts and consumer feedback systems, and e-commerce integrations — helping drive higher conversion rates, faster decision-making, and greater operational efficiency.”

  • Supermicro will also feature Superb AI’s retail-focused VSS solution, combining Superb AI’s proprietary VLM with NVIDIA AI Blueprint components to enable subjective reasoning capabilities, natural-language search, automated incident summarization, and customer behavior insights across store camera networks.
  • Aible will highlight its automated agent solution, which analyzes vast amounts of data across millions of patterns to explain changes in retail KPIs, such as the average purchase amount or number of purchases. Aible will also demonstrate how the latest NVIDIA Retail blueprints can be incorporated into agentic solutions that automatically customize customer experiences and optimize retail operations at scale.

Arijit Sengupta, CEO of Aible, adds, “Today’s market and labor conditions are constantly changing. Only autonomous agents can understand and adjust to these ever-changing patterns of customer behavior, inventory costs and supply, and labor access at scale. Working with NVIDIA and Supermicro, Aible brings autonomous agents subject to business user review to the retail edge.”

These intelligent retail solutions will be demonstrated by Supermicro and its partners at NRF: Retail’s Big Show in New York City from January 11-13. To learn more about AI-powered retail applications or Supermicro’s AI Infrastructure solutions, visit Supermicro booth #5281 and attend its speaking session featuring PepsiCo and Kinetic Vision. For more details, please visit www.supermicro.com/NRF

1Source: “NVIDIA State of AI in Retail and CPG” 2026

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro’s motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

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Sensormatic Solutions Enhances Storefront Design, Supports Retail Media Efforts and Delivers Shrink Insights With Flexible Loss-prevention & Engagement Experience System (FLEX)

Sensormatic Solutions Enhances Storefront Design, Supports Retail Media Efforts and Delivers Shrink Insights With Flexible Loss-prevention & Engagement Experience System (FLEX)

  • New storefront engagement platform combines visual merchandising, retail media network and latest loss prevention technologies which can help redefine the storefront experience
  • Sensormatic Solutions FLEX platform will be on display at the 2026 NRF Big Show

NEUHAUSEN, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sensormatic Solutions, the leading global retail solutions portfolio of Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), has added a new, highly customizable and retail-media-ready electronic article surveillance (EAS) system to its portfolio. The Sensormatic Solutions Flexible Loss-prevention & Engagement Experience (FLEX) platform is designed to enhance front-of-store real estate by combining visual merchandising, digital content management tools, and a full suite of loss prevention (LP) technology. FLEX blends seamlessly into the store design, while helping deliver a gateway for the shopper experience. Those in attendance at the 2026 NRF Big Show will have the opportunity to see the solution in person at booth (#5321), Jan. 11-13.

“EAS equipment can and should do so much more than detect merchandise and alert associates to incidents,” said Myron Burke, solutions management leader at Sensormatic Solutions. “They’re the first thing many shoppers see when entering a store, and they can be used to set the tone for the customer journey. With a sleek design, customizable sensors and alerts and enhanced visual merchandising capabilities, our new platform can help retailers and their brand partners make better use of valuable, engaging storefront space to extend branded experiences throughout shopper journeys.”

Sensormatic FLEX can enable a store-as-a-media-business model, meeting growing demand for solutions that support retail media network (RMN) success. The modular design strategy helps offer digital advertising, marketing, store design and merchandising teams ample opportunity to create dynamic storefront displays that align with brand aesthetics and customer expectations, while optional AM, RF and Gen2X RFID capabilities, as well as alarm options, help ensure LP teams still have what they need to help deter crime. This flexible, fully customizable approach can help retailers:

  • Increase foot traffic and sales. Sensormatic FLEX is designed to help improve retail operations and enhance front-of-store displays, entice passersby and help retailers draw in more visitors to drive conversion and profitability by improving customer engagement and on-shelf availability while minimizing shrink.
  • Maintain brand experiences. The modular, customizable design of Sensormatic FLEX can help empower floor designers with more control over the direction of stores’ look and feel.
  • Adjust to trends. Sensormatic FLEX is designed to empower teams pivot campaigns when circumstances change, while optional RFID capabilities help track merchandise and shrink trends in motion, helping to ensure messaging is always relevant and engaging.
  • Improve RMN performance. Flexible, high-quality displays in Sensormatic FLEX systems can help retailers and partners to take advantage of high-demand storefront space to capture shopper attention and open new revenue streams for retailers.

The 2026 NRF Big Show will be held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City from Jan. 11-13. Attendees can stop by booth #5321 to explore Sensormatic Solutions vision for the next generation of sales floors and learn more about its other recent innovations.

To request a booth tour or a meeting with an account manager, visit the Sensormatic Solutions scheduling page. Stay up to date on all things Sensormatic Solutions during the show by searching #SensormaticNRF on LinkedIn and X.

About Johnson Controls:

At Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI), we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet.

Building on a proud history of 140 years of innovation, we deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive digital offering.

Today, Johnson Controls offers the world’s largest portfolio of building technology and software as well as service solutions from some of the most trusted names in the industry.

Visit www.johnsoncontrols.com for more information and follow @johnsoncontrols on social platforms.

About Sensormatic Solutions

Sensormatic Solutions, the leading global retail solutions portfolio of Johnson Controls, powers safe, secure and seamless retail experiences. For more than 60 years, the brand has been at the forefront of the industry’s fast-moving technology adoption, redefining retail operations on a global scale and turning insights into actions. Sensormatic Solutions delivers an interconnected ecosystem of loss prevention, inventory intelligence and traffic insight solutions, along with our services and partners to enable retailers worldwide to innovate and elevate with precision, connecting data-driven outcomes that shape retail’s future. Please visit Sensormatic Solutions or follow us on LinkedIn, X and our YouTube channel.

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Retailers Help Mitigate Risk with Oracle’s AI-Driven Supply Chain Collaboration

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New cloud solution empowers retailers to boost resilience and productivity through intelligent collaboration, compliance, and streamlined operations

NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show — Oracle today unveiled Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration. The new cloud solution enables retailers to more easily navigate an increasingly unpredictable and complex supplier landscape to enhance operational oversight, efficiency, vendor coordination, and compliance to help protect margins and customer satisfaction.

The solution helps address supply chain risk by delivering actionable, data-driven insights that improve forecast accuracy and alert retailers to pending supply chain disruptions, such as, shifts in consumer demands or regulatory changes that could disrupt and delay inventory shipments. Within the system, retailers can issue urgent notifications to inform users of changes, expectations, and needed activities and also signal suppliers to expedite next step actions and acknowledgments.

Integrated with Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service (MFCS), the solution empowers retailers to collaborate directly with suppliers to assess sites, production facilities, and other critical measures to enable a thorough pre-selection and ongoing review process. By doing so, retailers can simplify their merchandising operations utilizing a unified portal to access and analyze valuable supplier data and foster more efficient, effective merchandising strategies.

See the solution in action at NRF, booth #5739, January 11-13 in New York. Book a demo or learn more at: https://engage.oracle.com/oracleatnrf

“From natural disasters to shifting global trade conditions, retailers are in a constant battle to better balance their supply chains to meet customer expectations, comply with ESG and regulatory requirements, and protect their bottom line,” said Paul Woodward, global vice president, Oracle Retail Products. “This solution gives retailers the AI-and data-driven visibility and intelligence needed to navigate complex supply chain and vendor relationships to help mitigate financial, operational, and reputational risks.”

Enhanced supplier coordination and compliance

With Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration, retailers can more confidently manage their merchandising operations at a global scale by aligning practices with business objectives, compliance standards, and sustainability goals – from the pre-selection process through order fulfilment. Categorized activity lists help both retailer and suppliers easily organize and filter process activities by status and responsibility while assignment list views offer quick actions for updating process, activity, site, and document statuses directly to streamline workflow management and improve productivity. Retailers can also customize audit notifications to deliver more targeted, manageable communications. Planned AI digital assistant capabilities are being developed to enable retailers to reduce hassle and save time by using simple prompts to find and summarize key supplier information. In addition, the direct integration of supplier sites from Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service with Supply Chain Collaboration enables the automatic creation of product records at the style or SKU level-based items. This one-way integration leverages MFCS APIs to retrieve items and create or update product records using supplier and item codes as common identifiers to streamline product data synchronization.

Other core benefits of the solution enable retailers to:

  • Data Sharing and Collaboration: Share practices, policies, and critical information with suppliers, fostering transparency and better coordination
  • Sustainability and Compliance: Collect sustainability certifications, quality assurances, and compliance audits and assessments to make more informed decisions and maintain high standards
  • Evaluation and Pre-selection: Evaluate, score, and grade items to pre-select and continuously monitor suppliers, supporting ongoing compliance
  • Streamline Merchandising: Delegate specific responsibilities to suppliers and share data through a centralized portal to improve merchandising operations and efficiency
  • Contextual Workflows: Create, review, and approve essential merchandising data using contextual workflows, offering a structured and organized process

Join us at NRF booth #5739 or learn more at Oracle.com/retail or LinkedIn.

About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.

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