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 feel confident they’re getting a great deal,” Amazon wrote in a recent blog post....
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 from Thursday to Sunday (July 2 to 5), the company said in a Tuesday (June 30) press release....
Walmart has launched a program that helps its associates become opticians in a Walmart Vision Center or a Sam’s Club Optical Center. The new Associate to Optician program offers associates who work outside its vision care centers the opportunity to earn a fully funded associate degree in optical science...
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. Retail experts chalked the increase up to high inflation combined with consumers focusing on...
Saks Global is reportedly plotting a luxury-focused revival as it emerges from bankruptcy. The company, owner of department stores Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, has structured its debt, shuttered dozens of stores and cut jobs since seeking bankruptcy protection in January, The...
Amazon and Walmart are spending this week is summer sale mode. Amazon’s four-day Prime Day runs June 23 through June 26, while Walmart Deals started a day earlier and ends two days later. U.S. online spending across retailers reached $8.3 billion on Prime Day’s first day, up 5.3% from...
Albertsons has launched a new integration with commerce intelligence platform Criteo. The partnership, announced Thursday (June 25) by the grocery giant’s retail media arm Albertsons Media Collective, is designed to bring product discovery into Albertsons artificial intelligence-powered conversational search. “As customers increasingly turn to AI-driven...
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 J.P. Morgan. J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth and his team attributed Amazon’s gains to its...
Walmart plans to expand access to connected TV advertising by acquiring Vibe.co. By acquiring Vibe.co’s self-serve, connected TV advertising platform and integrating it into the Walmart Connect commerce media platform, the retailer aims to make TV advertising more accessible to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and mid-market advertisers, including...