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Elizabeth Knight Business columnist November 4, 2025 — 3.43pm

Imagine a world in which artificial intelligence predicts what we are cooking for dinner and what groceries we need to buy, then executes that order, then delivers them. This Jetsons version of grocery shopping is already in the making thanks to a newly minted collaboration between Walmart and OpenAI.

It’s called agentic commerce, where AI bots don’t just answer questions but predict what customers will want – turning the shopping experience into a conversation, and the retailer from being reactive to proactive.

This is how the technology would work in theory: Coles or Woolworths knows it is pizza night at your place on Tuesday and buys the ingredients, debits your card and delivers t

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