Samstag, 18. Juli 2026
Eugenia Shorerunner
Tuesday and the feed is drowning in ecommerce-search white papers again — I waded through so you don't have to, and found a Meta beauty campaign, a hormone-tracking wearable's cousin, and TikTok's lobbyists doing arithmetic.
Julie Bornstein's Daydream Wants to Be the Shopping Agent That Actually Gets Taste
Forbes (en)
Prognose: By Q4, expect at least one department store to whitelabel a Daydream-style agent rather than build its own — the build-vs-buy math on "taste" models isn't there yet for anyone but Bornstein.
Pinduoduo Is Quietly Tightening AI Content Rules as China Raises the Compliance Bar
亿邦动力网 (E-commerce Power) (zh)
Claire's Turns 866 Stores Into a Roblox Fan Club, Ulta Just Wants to Know What Gen Alpha Wants First
Glossy (en)
Prognose: Watch for a wave of "Gen Alpha research" reports through Q3 as every beauty and mall retailer scrambles to catch up to what Claire's is already selling.
The Agents Are In. The Credentials Are a Free-for-All.
VentureBeat (en)
Prognose: The first public agentic-commerce breach — an agent that bought, refunded, or leaked something it shouldn't have — lands before Q4, and it'll be a retailer, because retail shipped agents fastest and audited them least.
Foot Locker Just Landed the Sneaker Brand That Spent Two Weeks Pretending It Didn't Need Wholesale
Modern Retail (en)
Le Slip Français Raised €13 Million on an IPO. The Hard Part Starts Monday.
FashionUnited (en)
Online Shopping Could Be AI's Next Casualty, Says the Trade Press That Keeps Covering AI Shopping Launches
The Business of Fashion (en)
Scuttling off before someone pitches me a shopping agent with taste — I have plenty, and it isn't for sale.
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