About Groceryshop 2026
Where AI, retail media, and the everyday basket collide.
Groceryshop returns to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas September 22–24, 2026, bringing together retailers, brands, and solution providers across grocery, convenience, pharmacy, and wholesale club retail. With 50+ sessions over three days, the agenda zeroes in on the decisions leaders have to make now: cutting costs, growing market share, expanding margins, delivering stronger shopping experiences, and preparing for what's next.
New formats, fresh research
The 2026 program leans further into agentic and AI-powered commerce, deeper retail media measurement, and the shifting priorities of value- and convenience-driven shoppers — while introducing a dedicated AI-Powered Shopping Series.
Meetup & Networking
Each day of Groceryshop sets aside a dedicated Meetup block — pre-scheduled hosted and general meetings built for one-on-one, purpose-driven conversations between retailers, brands, and solution providers.
Alongside Meetup, the show layers in TableTalks over breakfast and lunch, an Industry Night reception for retailer and brand attendees, and the GroceryFest Beach Party — giving attendees plenty of room to turn agenda takeaways into real relationships.
Key topics shaping the 2026 agenda
The 2026 agenda centers on six themes running across nearly every time block.
AI-Powered Shopping Experiences
AI is upending the shopping journey, powering conversational, personalized, and agentic experiences — plus the GEO/AEO tactics brands need to stay discoverable.
Transforming & Optimizing Business Operations
With margins slim and costs rising, how retailers and brands use technology and org design to unlock productivity and better decision-making.
Retail Media Opportunities & Challenges
Scaling off-site and in-store retail media, building full-funnel brand campaigns, and tackling measurement and transparency.
Unified Commerce & Omnichannel Marketing Strategies
Bridging online and in-store shopping through apps and loyalty, and aligning organizations internally to deliver a unified experience externally.
Meeting Consumer Expectations
Responding to shoppers' growing demand for value and convenience — and shifts like GLP-1 adoption — through assortment, NPD, and marketing.
Winning & Engaging Customers
Acquisition and engagement strategies across channels as attention spans shrink and loyalty grows harder to earn.
A dedicated AI-Powered Shopping Series
a Unified Commerce Series benchmarking omnichannel maturity, interactive Tactical Learning Sessions, and sessions built around fresh research and case studies — all factors we weighed heavily in the picks below.
One can't-miss session per time block.
With five to six themes running in parallel during most time blocks, planning your ideal path through Groceryshop can be overwhelming. Below, Incisiv highlights one can't-miss session per time block — plus the plenary keynotes — chosen for their direct relevance to our research on digital commerce and CX benchmarking, connected retail and store technology, retail media, AI and agentic commerce, and personalization.
Groceryshop can't-miss sessions
The plenary blocks worth building your day around
Main StageOpening Remarks
Kicks off the show and frames the themes organizers see shaping the year ahead.
Main Stage Keynotes
Groceryshop's flagship keynote block — the one session every attendee should build their day around. It typically sets the narrative the rest of the tracks respond to.
AI-Powered Shopping: New Insights on What's Truly Driving Adoption
This is fresh research on why shoppers actually adopt AI shopping tools — not vendor speculation. It's a direct complement to Incisiv's own work tracking AI-powered retail adoption, and a good gut-check for anyone building an AI roadmap based on assumptions rather than data.
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Delivering Value, Speed, and Profitability in Online Grocery
Balancing speed, cost, and margin is the central tension in online grocery, and it's a recurring theme in Incisiv's digital commerce benchmarking. Worth attending for anyone benchmarking their own fulfillment economics against the market.
Motivating Associates to Adopt Store Technologies
Store associate adoption of technology is a core pillar of Incisiv's Connected Retail Experience Study, which has repeatedly found associate engagement — not the tech itself — to be the real bottleneck. A practical session for anyone rolling out in-store tools.
Tapping Data Analytics and AI for Productivity and Profitability
Moderated by Incisiv's own Gaurav Pant, this session digs into how retailers and brands turn data analytics and AI into measurable productivity and margin gains — the operational side of AI where Incisiv's research consistently finds the gap between pilots and P&L impact.
GEO Strategies and Tactics: Increasing Brand Visibility on AI Platforms
Generative engine optimization is the newest frontier in digital shelf and discovery research, an area Incisiv has been tracking closely as shopping moves onto AI platforms. Timely for brands wondering how discovery is changing.
Day two on the Main Stage
Main StageMain Stage Keynotes
Day two's keynote block. As with Tuesday, this is the plenary session worth prioritizing over any single track — it's where the show's biggest announcements and research reveals tend to land.
AI Transformation: Establishing the Right Tech, Teams, and Privacy Guardrails
Maturity, governance, and organizational readiness for AI are exactly what Incisiv's Digital Commerce Maturity Assessment is built to measure. A good session for leaders thinking past pilots toward responsible scale.
The closing keynote block
Main StageMain Stage Keynotes
The final keynote block, ahead of the show's closing Key Takeaways session. Worth attending in full before heading into the afternoon's tracks.
Earning Loyalty from the Brand-Agnostic Shopper
Shifting loyalty dynamics are a recurring finding in Incisiv's Retail Customer Experience Index. This session digs into why traditional loyalty levers are losing their grip — relevant to any brand rethinking retention strategy.
New Opportunities for 1:1 Personalization
Personalization across the shopper journey is one of Incisiv's most consistent research pillars. This session looks at where the next wave of 1:1 personalization opportunity actually is, beyond the basics most retailers have already tried.
Where to see and be seen — the events
Groceryshop's education agenda is only half the show. Here are the surrounding moments where the real conversations — and a few of the best relationships — tend to happen.
Industry Night
An evening reception on the show floor — the natural place to keep day-one conversations going before the show's second day.
TableTalks + Breakfast
Small-group breakfast conversations that set the tone before the day's tracks kick off.
The Speakeasy @ Groceryshop 2026
The Speakeasy at Groceryshop 2026 brings grocery retail's leading minds together for an evening of connection at Bourbon Steak — Chef Michael Mina's modern reimagining of the classic American steakhouse — paired with curated food and spirits for meaningful conversation.
View Event PageGroceryFest Beach Party
The show's signature party — the year's biggest informal networking opportunity, by design.
TableTalks + Lunch
One last round of small-group conversations before the closing keynotes and Key Takeaways session.
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