- Thursday 10th July - 8:30 am

Amazon is reportedly considering adding to its $8 billion investment in Anthropic.
The tech giant has discussed the idea of a new, multibillion dollar injection into the artificial intelligence (AI) model builder, the ...
- Wednesday 9th July - 11:40 am

Amazon Prime Day generated nearly $15 billion last year. The sales event, extended to four days for the first time ever this year, has long been the eCommerce juggernaut’s crown ...
- Wednesday 9th July - 11:31 am

David’s Bridal opened a new Amazon storefront featuring a new brand that offers gowns and dresses for both special and everyday occasions.
By opening the Amazon storefront for The Edit by ...
- Wednesday 9th July - 4:00 am

It’s summertime, and that means sun, friends, backyards and cold beverages.
It also means summer sales and yard games aimed squarely at those backyard and park hangouts.
Today’s eCommerce landscape is dominated ...
- Tuesday 8th July - 8:56 pm

Adobe said Monday (July 7) that during Amazon’s Prime Day sales event that runs from Tuesday (July 8) through Friday (July 11), it expects the amount of traffic to all ...
- Tuesday 8th July - 3:53 pm

The first four hours of Amazon’s Prime Day event reportedly saw sales figures that were 14% lower than those at the beginning of last year’s event, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (July ...
- Tuesday 8th July - 11:13 am

For the world’s biggest retailers, summer means two things: sales events, and more sales events.
Amazon kicked off its annual summer sale on Tuesday (July 8), and the eCommerce giant announced that its ...
- Tuesday 8th July - 8:35 am

Will U.S. tariffs cause shoppers to sit out this year’s Prime Day?
Amazon kicked off its annual summer sale on Tuesday (July 8), but as Bloomberg News reported, the trade war has caused some ...
- Friday 4th July - 4:00 am

Real-time payments are emerging as the modern standard for transactions that are not only fast and efficient but also convenient.
By cutting down transaction times from days or hours to mere ...
- Thursday 3rd July - 3:54 pm

OpenAI unveiled a way for retailers to create artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistants in Shopify, according to a post on X.
With a few clicks, developers can now connect the Storefront ...
- Thursday 3rd July - 2:09 pm

The battle between Amazon and Walmart is hardly recognizable today relative to 10 years ago.
As artificial intelligence (AI) and automation become the invisible infrastructure underpinning global commerce, the Amazon-Walmart rivalry, ...
- Wednesday 2nd July - 11:45 am

On July 2, 1962, Walmart first opened its doors.
Sales that year were $975,000, PBS’ Frontline reported. It’s a figure that Walmart now makes every 46 seconds, according to a post ...
- Tuesday 1st July - 10:20 am

Amazon reportedly has a record 1 million-plus robots working in its warehouses.
That’s according to a report Tuesday (July 1) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which points out that the eCommerce giant is ...
- Tuesday 1st July - 8:57 am

Prices on Chinese-made goods selling on Amazon have reportedly been increasing faster than overall inflation.
That’s according to a report Monday (June 30) by Reuters, citing an analysis of 1,400 different products by analytics firm DataWeave.
The ...
- Friday 27th June - 11:51 am

Here are this week’s top news:
Carrefour Ramps up Digital Experience
French grocery giant Carrefour said physical retail is not going away, with 90% of its sales still occurring at its brick-and-mortar ...
- Friday 27th June - 4:01 am

Jeff Bezos is getting married this weekend. The Amazon founder has spared no expense, reportedly buying out much of the luxury accommodations in Venice, Italy, for his wedding to Lauren ...
- Thursday 26th June - 3:11 pm

A leader in artificial intelligence (AI) product strategy at Amazon’s AWS reportedly left the company to join another, unspecified firm.
Vasi Philomin, who was vice president and general manager, machine learning and AI ...
- Thursday 26th June - 4:00 am

A rising tide of retail subscriptions is empowering consumers to master their spending, with a growing cohort strategically leveraging memberships to both Amazon Prime and Walmart+.
A recent report from PYMNTS, ...
- Tuesday 24th June - 7:38 pm

Walmart is reportedly testing the use of dark stores to provide faster delivery to customers.
The company has opened a dark store in Dallas, plans to add one in Bentonville, Arkansas, ...
- Tuesday 24th June - 3:34 pm

Walmart says it has introduced artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help its store employees.
Available through the company’s associate app, these tools are designed to eliminate friction, simplify actions and make ...
- Tuesday 24th June - 3:21 pm

Amazon plans to expand its same-and-next-day delivery service to tens of millions of American consumers.
The expansion, targeting more than 4,000 smaller cities, towns and rural communities, is slated to happen ...
- Monday 23rd June - 4:13 pm

Walmart Deals will be offered online and in stores for the first time when the retailer holds its next event in July.
The company announced in a Monday (June 23) press ...
- Monday 23rd June - 6:58 am

Indian digital payments provider PhonePe is reportedly planning to go public in an IPO.
The Walmart-backed company is readying preliminary documents for an initial public offering (IPO) that could raise up ...
- Monday 23rd June - 4:00 am

The CE 100 Index barely budged in a week shortened by the Juneteenth holiday.
Overall, the index slipped a scant 0.02%, as six pillars lost ground and five pillars advanced. ...
- Sunday 22nd June - 6:19 pm

Walmart has agreed to settle a government claim that it ignores scammers within its money-transfer system.
The retail giant will pay $10 million to settle the charges by the Federal Trade ...
- Sunday 22nd June - 5:24 pm

Walmart is spending billions on a new headquarters as it takes on digitally native rivals.
The new base of operations, The New York Times (NYT) reported Saturday (June 21), is designed ...
- Sunday 22nd June - 4:20 pm

Amazon’s returns policy has reportedly become a sore point for some of the company’s sellers.
Some of these merchants have pulled back from the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program, while others ...
- Friday 20th June - 4:00 am

The retail experience in 2025 has left definitions like “physical” and “digital” behind. Instead, a vision of retail that’s predictive, personalized and embedded in daily life has taken over.
The ...
- Thursday 19th June - 4:01 am

Welcome to the second half of 2025.
Quite a ride so far, and as it continues, we wanted to take stock of the chief executives that offer perspective on the trends, ...
- Wednesday 18th June - 6:49 am

America’s tech giants want a 10-year ban on state regulations of artificial intelligence (AI) models.
However, this effort by the likes of Amazon and Google has divided the AI industry and ...
- Tuesday 17th June - 3:53 pm

Employees who have learned how to use artificial intelligence (AI) will be better positioned to be a part of Amazon in the future, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a message shared with employees ...
- Tuesday 17th June - 2:36 pm

Walmart reportedly aims to enable consumers to make purchases through TV remotes and interfaces while they are watching TV shows.
This plan is one of several that the retailer is working ...
- Tuesday 17th June - 10:30 am

Amazon says its annual Prime Day sale is doubling in size this summer.
The retail giant announced Tuesday (June 17) that the event will stretch over four days instead of the usual two, running ...
- Monday 16th June - 5:08 pm

Big Retail’s commerce ecosystems may prove to be fertile ground for new payment methods, particularly proprietary stablecoins.
The web woven between platforms, businesses and customers would seem a natural fit ...
- Monday 16th June - 4:00 am

The CE 100 rode the waves of volatile trading this past week, alongside the broader market indices, to finish 1.8% lower.
The prospect of widening conflict in the Middle East ...
- Sunday 15th June - 8:06 pm

American companies are reportedly resorting to job cuts amid tariff-related uncertainty.
More than 170 companies are expected to announce layoffs this month, Seeking Alpha reported Saturday (June 14), citing WARNTracker.com, a ...
- Friday 13th June - 6:33 pm

Amazon reportedly aims to boost its efforts in the healthcare field by simplifying the structure of its health business.
The company is reorganizing Amazon Health Services into six units, CNBC reported Friday (June 13), ...
- Friday 13th June - 3:01 pm

There’s a revolution under way, with proponents heralding it as a reimagination of what money is and how it moves.
We’re talking about stablecoins: tokenized assets on the blockchain whose value ...
- Friday 13th June - 1:39 pm

Circle and Chime garnered the lion’s share of FinTech-focused headlines through the past several days, particularly those centered on Wall Street.
However, there is a tailwind to early-stage financing of FinTechs ...
- Friday 13th June - 6:44 am

Walmart and Amazon are actively exploring the issuance of their own stablecoins, a move that could upend the traditional payments ecosystem and potentially save these retail giants billions in transaction ...
- Thursday 12th June - 2:24 pm

The everything consumer requires an everything retailer, and that’s the pole position that retail giants Amazon and Walmart have been battling for over the past two decades.
The rivalry between Amazon ...
- Tuesday 10th June - 6:27 pm

As the June 18 deadline for bidding on the remaining assets of Rite Aid nears, the potential buyers who are looking them over reportedly include pharmacy chain Walgreens, reality star ...
- Monday 9th June - 7:24 pm

Each week, PYMNTS Intelligence details the competition between Walmart and Amazon, two behemoths of commerce, jockeying for share of wallet and hundreds of millions of consumers.
In recent reports, we’ve chronicled ...
- Monday 9th June - 1:43 pm

Amazon is investing at least $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand its data center infrastructure.
The new investment, announced Monday (June 9), is aimed at bolstering the tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud ...
- Monday 9th June - 11:23 am

Walmart is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings by introducing a new shopping assistant.
Customers can now access the generative AI-powered “Sparky” on the Walmart app, the retail giant said in ...