Google's Universal Cart faces adoption hurdles with Walmart and Target as retailers weigh data and control concerns
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Summary
Google announced Universal Cart, an AI-powered shopping cart that works across Google Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail. It tracks deals, price drops, price history, and stock alerts, and warns about incompatible items. The main challenge is getting major retailers like Walmart and Target to adopt the system, as they have their own competing shopping ecosystems and may be reluctant to cede customer data and control to Google.
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· 3 pulledGoogle wants to build the go-to AI-powered shopping cart of the future. But whether shoppers will latch onto it is another question.
Once shoppers add a product to their cart, it tracks deals and price drops, gives information on price history and alerts users when an items is back in stock.
It will also warn shoppers if certain items in the cart are incompatible with the others and suggest alternatives.
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