About this episode

The episode discusses the latest developments in Agentic Commerce and key grocery news stories, featuring insights from marketing executive Sarah Engel.

In this episode, sponsored by Instacart Enterprise, Portager, Vusion, and Sifter Solutions, Ben Miller is joined by Sarah Engel, President of digital marketing agency and consultancy January Digital and one of Adweek’s 50 most influential marketing executives, to take stock of the latest developments in Agentic Commerce and unpack the global grocery news stories from this week that we believe are worth paying attention to. This week, they discuss: • Anthropic’s new blueprints for Shopping and Merchant Agents, Amazon’s latest Alexa for Shopping update, and what the rise of Agentic Commerce means for grocery: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/anthropic-launches-ai-agent-blueprints-retailers-ahead-holiday-shopping-season-2026-09-02/ • Sprouts Farmers Market’s CEO succession plan, with Jack Sinclair stepping down and COO Nick Konat set to take over.: https://www.grocerydive.com/news/sprouts-names-ceo-nick-konat/829368/ • Kroger and Meijer’s September wellness events, and whether in-store health and wellness activations can really move the needle: https://progressivegrocer.com/kroger-takes-health-focused-message-across-country-wellness-tour • Walmart expanding…

People in this episode

Host: Ben Miller

Guest: Sarah Engel

Topics covered

• Agentic Commerce
• Grocery News
• CEO Succession
• Health and Wellness Events
• Restaurant Delivery
• Private Label Products

Keywords

• Agentic Commerce
• Grocery
• Walmart
• CEO Succession
• Health Events
• Delivery
• Private Label

Sponsors

Instacart Enterprise, Portager, Vusion, Sifter Solutions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Amazon, Sprouts Farmers Market, Kroger, Meijer, Walmart, Dunkin', Aldi

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