Kroger said on 11 September that profit at Kroger Precision Marketing grew 24 percent in its second quarter, while identical sales rose just 0.2 percent.
Retail media in Poland is worth about 2 billion zloty, with Allegro taking more than half. The numbers were presented at the Havas Retail Summit 2026.
Instacart launched a white-label AI shopping assistant for other retailers on 9 September, along with Clementine, its own assistant on the Instacart app.
Rewe Group has started selling advertising space in its Toom home improvement chain. The German trade press reported the launch on 3 September.
Google announced WeatherNext 3 on 3 September and put it behind weather answers in Search, Maps and the Gemini app.
Havas Market, the online shopping and performance arm of Havas Media Network, will run six more countries from Warsaw. Izabela Polańska-Sitarek, who joins from Publicis, is in charge.
The US regulator and 22 states say Amazon put a hidden floor price into auctions it sold as second-price auctions. For people who buy ads on online shops, a question about price is now a question about trust.
Simon Property Group, the largest owner of shopping malls, has started selling ads. It builds audiences from loyalty and Wi-Fi data and shows the ads on almost 4,000 screens.
Itochu will buy up to 38 percent of Dentsu Soken at 2,880 yen a share and run it with Dentsu as a joint venture. Dentsu keeps 61.78 percent, and the company will leave the Tokyo stock market.
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