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Google launches Universal Cart for cross-retailer shopping
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- →Universal Cart centralizes cross-retailer shopping, reducing friction for users managing multiple potential purchases.
- →Integration with the Universal Commerce Protocol positions Google to lead in agentic commerce infrastructure.
- →The tool demonstrates a shift from passive search results to active transaction orchestration via AI.
Google has launched Universal Cart in the US, allowing users to save and monitor products found across Search and the Gemini app. The tool aggregates items from multiple retailers, sends notifications for price drops or restocks, and suggests promo codes based on credit card perks. Checkout is powered by Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard intended to facilitate AI agent interactions with retailers. This release follows earlier previews at Google I/O and joins other AI shopping features like conversational discovery.
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