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The discovery layer in retail e-commerce sits between a buyer's stated intent and a completed purchase, and AI-assisted shopping tools are now competing to own it.
This year's back-to-school season is emerging as an early consumer test of whether buyers will hand off that work, with Amazon and Google positioned as primary beneficiaries of a shift that may be redefining how consumers buy.
The mechanism behind the shift is straightforward. Conventional keyword search returns a list and stops there.
The shopper still has to open tabs, compare options, weigh trade-offs, and often repeat the whole sequence across sessions.
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