AI recommendations are reshaping pet care product discovery. In this industry’s inaugural report, we track ChatGPT brand visibility in Q3 2026, the sources informing recommendations, and what it takes to stay competitive.

In August 2026, we analyzed 11,250 ChatGPT responses across 23 retail store categories to compile the AI Visibility Index.

Walmart, Sephora, and other partnerships let users delegate shopping, testing their willingness to hand AI more control.

AI shopping agents are becoming a bigger part of how consumers discover and compare products. As the holiday season approaches, brands are rethinking how product information needs to work for AI as well as human shoppers.

Affiliate marketing keeps gaining ground as cost-conscious shoppers, creator growth, and AI reshape the channel. But shifting consumer journeys and publisher pressures are changing where brands see value.

Dress-code changes and training investments are meant to improve service and support discovery.

Online marketplaces are taking a bigger share of ecommerce, but rising shopper expectations, tighter margins, and weaker customer relationships are reshaping the opportunity for brands and retailers.

Dedicated GLP-1 shelf space for digestive and pain relief products helped lift Haleon sales 24%, giving health and CPG brands with GLP-1-adjacent items a case to follow.

Expanding its fulfillment network could encourage more grocery spending while narrowing Walmart's convenience advantage.

Walmart's Medicare Advantage tie-up with health insurer Scan tests whether trusted retailers can influence health choices without directly providing care.

AI is gaining influence over what consumers discover and consider long before it commands a meaningful share of the digital economy. But existing advantages in reaching consumers, earning trust, and driving transactions still matter.

The deal could lift frequency and membership value if Walmart keeps expanding its restaurant selection.

Pushing into a novel use case could help it steal share from Google and Apple Wallet.

Mail-order pharmacies outperform stores digitally. Better online tools can ease medication access and strengthen retention.

AI recommendations are reshaping how consumers discover products. In our inaugural report on the food and beverage industry, we track ChatGPT brand visibility in Q3 2026, the sources informing recommendations, and what it takes to stay competitive.

Frequent users make more impulse purchases, plan less, and expect retailers to deliver on demand.

Retail media networks (RMNs) have built out social and creator offerings, but advertisers have not widely adopted them. To attract spend, RMNs must prove that their offer of better targeting and measurement outweighs the added cost and complexity.

The retailer looks to restaurant delivery to drive consumers to open its app and place orders more frequently.

Burlington, Walmart, Target, and Amazon are using tariff money to fund lower prices.