If an AI agent completes the sale outside the store, what should the merchant actually trust?
Summary
The article discusses merchants' challenges in trusting the economics of AI agent-driven sales on Meta surfaces, highlighting the need for improved order attribution and margin analysis when checkout occurs outside their usual analytics.
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