🕔 Retail Daily Minute | Instacart Acquires Instaleap, David's Bridal Goes Agentic & GameStop Launches Power Packs

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In today’s Retail Daily Minute:

Instacart acquires international retail tech platform Instaleap, gaining grocery fulfillment technology and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries to accelerate its global enterprise expansion.
David’s Bridal joins Shopify’s Agentic Storefronts program, integrating its product assortment into ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot while auditing its catalog to optimize for AI-driven discovery.
GameStop launches Power Packs, a digital trading card platform offering collectors PSA-graded physical cards stored in the PSA Vault, as collectibles now represent roughly a third of the retailer’s total revenue.

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Today’s Top Headlines

1. Instacart Acquires Instaleap to Expand Its Global Market Reach

Instacart acquires grocery retail tech platform Instaleap for an undisclosed sum, boosting its international footprint with access to nearly 100 grocery retailers in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, along with grocery-specific fulfillment solutions and established retailer partnerships outside North America. (Read More)

2. David’s Bridal Taps ChatGPT and Copilot to Drive Digital Sales

David’s Bridal joins Shopify’s Agentic Storefronts for ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, enabling AI chatbot users to browse its wedding and special occasion assortment by silhouette, size, and color, as part of its “Aisle to Algorithm” strategy to grow its retail media network and become a digital-first retailer. (Read More)

3. GameStop Launches Power Packs Digital Trading Card Platform

GameStop launches “Power Packs,” a digital trading card platform where collectors can unlock and trade PSA-graded Pokémon, football, basketball, and baseball cards starting at $25, as the retailer seeks new digital revenue streams amid declining hardware and software sales and ongoing store closures. (Read More)

4. Amazon Autos Scales Up With New Brands in Over 130 US Cities

Amazon Autos expands beyond its initial Hyundai partnership to add Chevrolet, Jeep, Kia, Mazda, and Subaru, now active with hundreds of dealers across more than 130 U.S. cities, allowing shoppers to browse inventory, secure financing, and complete car purchases online before picking up at a local dealership. (Read More)

5. Rent the Runway Diversifies With Marketplace and Side Gigs

Rent the Runway diversifies beyond apparel rentals by offering dry-cleaning services to outside companies like hotels, scaling advertising, and launching an online marketplace for shoes, beauty, and basics, targeting double-digit growth after posting $330 million in revenue and a $22.6 million net profit last year. (Read More)

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