Retailers are hitting Cyber Monday 2025 with deals and a surge of AI-powered shopping tools — all aimed at keeping budget-stretched consumers clicking throughout Black Friday weekend.
Why it matters: This year, the shopping holiday is less about "online-only deals" and more about AI-assisted gift-hunting — a shift experts say is transforming how shoppers discover products. • "Consumers who are holiday shopping on Cyber Monday will be discovering products for others that sit outside of their normal shopping behavior," Mike O'Donnell, Flywheel senior vice president of innovation and business transformation, told Axios. • "This discovery process, which historically may have started on Google or searching across retailer sites has now been disrupted by the onset of Generative AI tools lik

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