Tesco appoints first agentic AI director

Tesco has appointed Lucy Cooper as its first group customer experience and agentic AI director. Cooper joins from THG Ingenuity, where she developed AI agents across ecommerce operations, after previously leading customer innovation at Microsoft. Tesco is testing an AI shopping assistant with 280,000 employees, initially focused on personalised meal planning, while its Adobe partnership is developing wider AI-led personalisation across the business. (Decision Marketing)