By Ben Shimkus
Publication Date: 2026-03-30 21:57:00
Your Target run could soon be handled by AI — and the retailer wants shoppers to know they’ll be on the hook for those purchases.
Target updated its terms and conditions on March 22 as it prepares to launch a partnership with AI bot Google Gemini. The integration could enable the AI to suggest products and complete purchases on a shopper’s behalf. The agent would not be able to buy products with the shopper’s approval.
The new terms and conditions say that if a customer authorizes an AI shopping agent to act on their behalf, those purchases and transactions would be “considered transactions authorized by you.”
In other words, the customer would still have to pay, even if, let’s say, the bot ordered the wrong item.
The policy also notes that Target does not guarantee that third-party AI tools “will act exactly as you intend in all circumstances.”
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