April 29, 2025
Retail CEOs: Low Prices Can’t Last in Face of Tariffs
While retailers in the United States have kept prices low despite tariffs, they say the situation can’t last. That’s according to a report Tuesday (April 29) by The Wall Street...
April 29, 2025
Amazon Reportedly Pushing Suppliers for Discounts to Combat Tariffs
Amazon is reportedly looking for steep supplier discounts to offset the cost of U.S. tariffs. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Tuesday (April 29), the tech giant has asked for low double-digit price decreases...
April 28, 2025
From Chips to Trips, Earnings Season Shows Consumer Demand Is...
For several consumer-facing companies, the best thing that can be said is that households are cautious, or rather outright fearful, with tariffs as the catalyst. Many of these firms have...
April 28, 2025
Chief Product Officers See GenAI as Strategic Ally Not Job-Killer
Fears of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) replacing human workers on a massive scale are overblown — at least for now, and possibly in the long term. On the one hand,...
April 28, 2025
Temu and Shein Raise Prices in Response to US Tariffs
Discount eTailers Temu and Shein reportedly raised prices in response to new U.S. tariffs. Temu started adding “import charges” of about 145%, while Shein raised prices without adding a separate...
April 28, 2025
Survival or Surrender: Will Tariffs Force Small Businesses Off the...
Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can be squeezed from a new direction each day. Some of those squeezes are starting to hurt, particularly the U.S. tariffs on foreign trade. As...
April 28, 2025
Amazon-Backed Glacier Raises $16 Million for AI-Powered Recycling Robots
Glacier has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round to scale its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered recycling robots across the U.S. The company’s robots are used at recycling centers...
April 28, 2025
Saks Says Plan to Pay Past-Due Bills Improved Vendor Relationships
Saks Global Enterprises reportedly told creditors that it has improved its relationships with vendors and built up its inventory since implementing a plan in February to pay past-due balances over...
April 28, 2025
Amazon Sellers Reportedly Skipping Prime Day Due to Tariffs
For years, Amazon’s Prime Day has been a prime opportunity for the company’s third-party merchants. But amid an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariffs...
