Amazon spent decades trying to make itself the place where merchants sell. Its next act may be considerably more ambitious: becoming the place where merchants run their businesses, regardless of where the sale happens. Two exclusive announcements from Amazon shared with PYMNTS this week point...
Maybe that Amazon-Walmart rivalry isn’t so fierce after all. Amazon announced Thursday morning (Sept. 24) that it will let marketplace sellers manage orders and shipment tracking from eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart inside Seller Central, extending its seller dashboard to the other places merchants do...
The shopping basket has always held the answer. Brands just haven’t had a clear way to read it at the moment a customer pays. Smart checkout technology could change that by matching products in the basket with eligible offers and applying the savings automatically. “The...
Local commerce platform DoorDash introduced a platform that provides brands with purchase-based signals from consumer orders and audit-based signals from shelf scans, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23) press release. With this information, the new Brand Center delivers insights into on-shelf availability and...
Like clockwork, the season of temporary retail, in the form of pop-up stores, is here. Spirit Halloween is opening more than 1,550 seasonal stores across North America this year. Other retailers are doing the same thing on a smaller scale. Hallmark plans a limited-time holiday...
Amazon will invest another $1.9 billion in its delivery service partner (DSP) program in 2027. This will help DSP’s boost delivery associate (DA) pay to a national average of nearly $24 per hour, Amazon said in its announcement Monday (Sept. 21). “Amazon’s safety investments and...
Maryland will become the first state to put an outright ban on certain personalized grocery prices into effect Oct. 1, moving beyond the disclosure requirements that have defined much of the early state response to algorithmic pricing. But it may not be the last. Maryland...
Instacart has unveiled software designed to let grocers and brands digitally view store shelves in real time. The new solutions, announced Monday (Sept. 21), will “map the entire store down to individual products on shelves,” letting grocers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands virtually comb...
Santa has apparently checked his calendar and decided Halloween has had quite enough time. Amazon, Target and Walmart are lining up overlapping October sales, inviting consumers in the United States to buy Christmas presents while still considering whether the front yard skeleton needs a companion...