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I Used An AI Agent To Do My Back-To-School Shopping. It Was Easy. So Why Do I Feel Sad?

Back-to-school shopping is one of my most treasured late-summer activities. When the school supply list came out as a kid, I would wait with anticipation until my mom could drive me to Office Max in her minivan. I’d spend as long as I could in the store deliberating between seven different types of highlighters and

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Target plans to lower prices after receiving almost $1 billion in tariff refunds

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. Tariff refunds were a massive tailwind for Target last quarter that could help it continue to lower prices. Target received $994 million in pre-tax tariff refunds during the second quarter, the company reported in its earnings release Wednesday morning. The tariff refunds boosted Target’s second-quarter

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Butler/Till extends agentic media buying tests into audio with iHeartMedia

AI media buying tests are expanding to audio. Rochester, N.Y.-based independent media agency Butler/Till and iHeartMedia have been testing the use of AI media buying agents on streaming audio and podcast inventory, Digiday has learned. The two companies piloted an agentic buying solution for a four-week campaign running between July and August, on behalf of

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