https://www.commerce-partners.com/review AI, product data and sourcing decisions for commercial leaders in European retail. en-GB https://www.commerce-partners.com/review/product-data-is-a-margin-line https://www.commerce-partners.com/review/product-data-is-a-margin-line Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product Data Analysis An AI channel is asking you to publish your own return rate as a ranking input. The regulator is demanding the same catalogue discipline with customs enforcement attached. Both arrive at the same desk — and it is not IT's. — Machines now do a growing share of product shortlisting, they read structured feeds rather than pages, and Adobe measures roughly a third to a half of retail page content as unreadable to them. Meanwhile GPSR and the EU Digital Product Passport attach legal accountability to the same attributes. The conclusion for buying, sourcing and procurement is uncomfortable but simple. https://www.commerce-partners.com/review/dpp-registry-is-live https://www.commerce-partners.com/review/dpp-registry-is-live Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Standards & Regulation Brief The registry ESPR mandated for 19 July 2026 is operational. The detail that matters for sourcing is the customs verification, not the compliance date. — The European Commission's Digital Product Passport registry is now enrolling organisations, and customs authorities can use it to verify electronically that an imported product carries a valid registered passport before release for free circulation. Batteries are first, in February 2027. https://www.commerce-partners.com/review/testing-the-agent-ready-claim https://www.commerce-partners.com/review/testing-the-agent-ready-claim Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ecosystem Vendor Watch Every commerce vendor is now agent-ready. The protocols are published, which means the claim is checkable — here are the questions that separate a shipped integration from a roadmap slide. — The published specifications from Stripe and OpenAI, Google, Visa and Mastercard give buyers something rare: an objective test for a vendor claim. Six questions to put to any platform, PIM or agency that says it is ready for agentic commerce, and what a weak answer to each one tells you.