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Amazon has cut jobs in its artificial general intelligence (AGI) group, Reuters reported Wednesday (July 22). The move follows Amazon’s consolidation of AGI work into part of a larger group that ...

U.S. consumers kept spending in June, but the mix shows why Walmart and Amazon are leaning harder into price as the back-to-school season begins. The Commerce Department’s June retail sales report showed ...

A weekly grocery run seems like the perfect opportunity to fill a shopping cart with everything else a household needs. New data suggests consumers increasingly see it differently. A recent PYMNTS ...

Amazon Business now offers Prime Business customers in Spain some new artificial intelligence-powered features, according to a Monday (July 13) press release translated by Google. The features help purchasing, finance and ...

Retail is getting a first-principles upgrade at the hands, or lack of them, of artificial intelligence. The shopping transformation looks less like a better eCommerce search bar and more like something ...

Retailers found a way to get inflation-weary Americans to buy in June. The question is how much it cost them. Amazon’s four-day Prime Day pulled into late June and was quickly ...

Amazon has expanded the price history function of its agentic artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant. Alexa for Shopping now shows 30, 90, and 365 days of price history, “so customers can ...

The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program (Aspen FSP) has launched a new effort focused on reducing the scale and severity of scams affecting Americans. The Scam Prevention Initiative aims to improve ...

Amazon is highlighting the fuel savings benefits of Prime membership with a limited-time promotion that offers 50 cents per gallon off one fuel purchase over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The promotion runs ...

American shoppers spent more than $26.4 billion on this year’s Amazon Prime Day. That’s a 9.3% increase over last year’s eCommerce event, Reuters reported Saturday (June 27), citing Adobe Analytics data. ...

Amazon became the largest retailer in the United States in terms of gross merchandise value sometime in 2025, overtaking Walmart, Seeking Alpha reported Thursday (June 25), citing a report by ...

European regulators say Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud businesses should fall under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The European Commission said in a Wednesday (June 24) press release that it had informed both tech giants ...

Running a small business can take up a big chunk of its owner’s time. Even something as simple as ordering the breakroom snacks each month can add up, and as ...

Swiss eCommerce logistics provider MS Direct, which moves more than 32 million items a year, has deployed a robot from Stuttgart-based Sereact that picks and packs orders without per-item training, ...

Walmart is integrating its advertising operations into one framework amid growing ad revenue. The retail giant on Monday (June 22) announced plans to align tools, tech and platforms across its U.S. and international ...

Prime Day is built for scale. Smallbatch Pets is built around the opposite idea: raw and freeze-dried pet food made in small batches from humanely raised meats and organic produce. From ...

Amazon says its Alexa+ voice assistant is now available to customers in Brazil. It’s part of an ongoing rollout of the upgraded Alexa that began earlier this year, and is scheduled to ...

For years, the rivalry between Amazon and Walmart was easy to understand. One company dominated eCommerce, the other dominated physical retail. Their competition revolved around familiar metrics: market share, delivery ...

Amazon artificial intelligence executive Peter DeSantis reportedly said Wednesday (June 17) that the first “commercially useful small-scale” quantum computers will appear five to seven years from now. DeSantis, who is the ...

Amazon invested in and launched a partnership with artificial intelligence startup Odyssey, the Financial Times reported Wednesday (June 17). The tech giant took part in a $310 million funding round for ...

Summer in the United States has acquired a new seasonal ritual. Apply sunscreen, overpay for iced coffee, and receive 47 alerts that a cordless vacuum has entered its “lowest price ever” ...

June will be a big month for omnichannel retailer promotions. Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kohl’s and Staples have each announced sales events that begin this month and overlap or partially overlap. Chain Store Age reported on the events in a ...

Ecosystems now scale more efficiently than stores, and that new reality is transforming retail. Amazon announced Wednesday (June 10) that it is expanding its Supply Chain Services platform with a less-than-truckload ...

Businesses of all sizes can now use Amazon’s less-than-truckload (LTL) service to move freight into their own warehouses, between their own facilities, and to their retail partners and distributors. This represents ...

As shoppers put more of their budgets toward essentials, Amazon and Walmart are starting to play more distinct roles in American retail. That is the broader takeaway from “Consumer Wallet Reset: How ...

Amazon’s U.S. customers can now use the company’s AI-powered Alexa for Shopping to create custom designs to be printed on T-shirts, water bottles and other apparel and drinkware items. This new ...

Walmart is reportedly trying to sell its workers on the benefits of artificial intelligence. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (June 7), the retail goliath last week gathered thousands of ...

Walmart is offering delivery of freshly made meals from its largest in-store restaurant tenant, Subway. This is the retailer’s first restaurant integration within Express Delivery, it said in a Thursday (June ...

Bigger is better, and faster is best. That’s not just a quote you might find on a bad T-shirt. It’s also the central strategy driving traditional retail competition defined by scale, ...

Walmart-backed FinTech company OnePay aims to continue growing its financial app by adding more users beyond those from Walmart and by encouraging users to access more of its services, Bloomberg ...

Amazon’s Prime Day hasn’t been confined to a single day for some time now. That multi-day trend will continue this year, though the shopping event will take place a few weeks ...

Walmart has reportedly limited employees’ artificial intelligence usage amid rising demand. That’s according to a report Monday (June 1) by Bloomberg News, which calls the move an example of how companies ...

Last June, Amazon said it would invest 40 billion pounds (about $53.9 billion) in the U.K. from 2025-2027. One year later, the company said it is more than a third of ...

Europe reportedly wants tougher criteria for bidding on government cloud projects. That’s according to a report Monday (June 1) from Reuters, which said that this move by the European Commission (EC) ...

Walmart says its drones have now made more than 1 million deliveries. “What started as a pilot just a few years ago has officially taken off, giving customers a faster, easier way ...

Every so often, a person with a security detail, a compensation committee and five admins emerges to tell the rest of us that the top job is actually fairly straightforward. This ...

Amazon introduced a solution that enables retailers to tap into the technology and learnings from its artificial intelligence shopping assistant to build their own conversational shopping experience. The new Agentic Shopping ...

Retail scale still matters. But Walmart’s first quarter of fiscal year 2027 made clear the company’s next phase of growth runs through something harder to copy than store count: how ...

Walmart is widening its lead over competitors as tariffs, inflation pressures and tighter household budgets reshape U.S. retail. The company has strengthened its position by leaning on its size, expanding digital ...

Some tech executives warn that artificial intelligence (AI) will usher in mass waves of layoffs. Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman is not one of them. “Everybody’s entitled to their opinion, ...

Walmart tapped the brakes on Flipkart’s long-anticipated public market debut. The U.S. retail giant is telling its Indian eCommerce subsidiary to reach profitability first, Moneycontrol reported Friday (May 15), making the ...

For years, retail’s artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions revolved around making search smarter. Now, Amazon and Walmart—two of the world’s biggest retailers—are placing very different bets on what comes next. The ...

Amazon Business has launched a credit card in tandem with Mastercard and U.S. Bank. The Prime Business Card and Amazon Business Card, announced Wednesday (May 13), are issued by U.S. Bank ...

Amazon has announced a personalized AI assistant called Alexa for Shopping and will roll it out to all U.S. customers over the next week. Alexa for Shopping will be available to ...

The CEO of FedEx says Amazon’s new supply chain service is no threat to his company. “Last week’s announcement versus what FedEx operates is completely different,” Raj Subramaniam told CNBC’s Jim Cramer during a Tuesday ...