Kids can say the darndest things, but with more parents than ever before turning to their kids for advice on every purchase from clothes to food, determining exactly what children want can be a multi-billion dollar industry. Target certainly thinks so, and it’s doing everything it...
Imitation might the sincerest form of flattery, but sometimes, it’s also not a terrible way to run a business. Especially when a company like Amazon seems to operate above and beyond what other merchants are capable of, stealing a page from its playbook doesn’t seem...
When the average person confronts broken bathroom tiles, they can be expected to go through something like the five stages of grief described by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The important part is that the average person gets to that last phase,...
You can chalk up Catawiki, hailed by some as the “eBay of antiques,” as one business that is at least excited by the potential for new customers and revenue streams in the wake of the Brexit vote, according to a recent Bloomberg report. The company,...
One of the principles of the still-in-progress omnicommerce handbook is that, in an ideal world, inventory is a fluid commodity that flows across channels as easily as revenue does into retailers’ pockets. That’s obviously not always the case, and Walmart is seeing what happens if...
It might not be anything quite like Skynet – the fictional artificial intelligence system that took over the world in the Terminator film franchise – but the winner of Amazon’s second annual robot Picking Challenge won this year’s challenge thanks to a “combination of deep...
In what has been called a shot across Square’s box, American Express has racked up some headlines today with the announcement that American Express is right on the cusp of going live with an online lending platform that will be geared toward small business clients. The...
If you think you’re reading the same story twice, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. On June 30, Walmart announced expansion into Arizona, California, New Mexico, Washington and Idaho. Over the holiday weekend the retail giant decided it could add to that list a little bit....
Amazon may be making it easier for Sprint users to add on the Amazon Prime loyalty service. Android Authority reported late last week that Amazon and Sprint now have an exclusive deal that will allow Sprint users to pay for their Amazon Prime subscription by...
