Let’s catch up with some product news today, Dear Reader.  We’ll start with Braze, which has released Braze for Commerce, a package of personalization tools for retail and ecommerce merchants.  The one new product in the bundle, Braze Catalog, lets marketers use product data within personalized messages.  Other components include surveys, SMS click tracking, advanced segmentation, and data sharing across Braze’s email, SMS, mobile, and web tools, and paid social channels.

Grocery retailer Kroger continues to flesh out its retail media business.  Just added: an option to use the Pacvue, Skai, and Flywheel Digital ad management platforms to purchase product listing ads on Kroger ecommerce sites.  Before you ask: Flywheel Digital is unrelated to Comcast Flywheel.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.