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Shopify plans to let Meta’s Muse AI agent complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores through its one-tap Shop Pay service, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Why it matters

That would move Muse beyond finding products and into delegated checkout, although the supplied report does not establish when the feature will launch, which merchants will participate or how approval, returns and disputes will work. The development matters because Shopify is opening its front door to an agent that Amazon has blocked. Online shops may soon have to decide whether AI agents are welcome customers, approved partners or automated nuisances with excellent taste in baskets. For now, this is a reported plan rather than a demonstrated shopping workflow.

Discuss: Should retailers welcome AI agents as authorised shopping partners, or insist that every purchase happens through a person-controlled checkout?

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