The Super Bowl has always been a game. It’s also a retail ecosystem with shoulder pads. For one Sunday (and increasingly, for a full week), the NFL turns fandom into an add-to-cart lifestyle. Tickets packaged like luxury travel, concerts bundled with hospitality, sponsor activations that...
Saks Global is reportedly weighing two competing offers of bankruptcy financing packages as it prepares to file for bankruptcy. The company, which owns Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus, is looking to file for bankruptcy as soon as Sunday (Jan. 11), The Wall Street Journal...
Amazon reportedly plans to open a big-box store comparable to a Walmart or Target location in a Chicago suburb. The 229,000-square-foot facility would sell groceries, general merchandise and prepared foods, Bloomberg reported Friday (Jan. 9). Amazon is seeking approval for the project and could begin...
Walmart has launched a digital destination designed to help customers access health and wellness services and products. The new Better Care Services offers access to third-party providers for urgent care and behavioral health, Eli Lilly and Company’s direct-to-consumer offering LillyDirect, and personalized food and recipe...
The holiday shopping spree has come to a close. And while returns are no doubt occupying a fair amount of time at the world’s two biggest retailers, a relatively quiet (but consumer retail-focused) week at Amazon stood in contrast to some interesting developments around AI...
Hospitality platform Toast is introducing “retail specific” capabilities for its Toast IQ artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. It’s part of a wider range of updates the company plans to showcase next week at the National Retail Federation show in New York City, Toast said in a Thursday (Jan...
Retail media networks are moving from the margins of advertising strategy to the center of how brands and retailers compete, as data and media increasingly converge to shape consumer experiences and marketing outcomes. Recent PYMNTS coverage has tracked the evolution. Among a few examples, CVS...
Last year, Walmart introduced Marty, an artificial intelligence (AI) super agent for sellers, suppliers and advertisers. As 2026 begins, the retail giant is touting Marty’s effectiveness in acting as an advertising assistant, as Walmart Connect, the company’s advertising platform, embeds newer AI agentic technology to...
A federal judge reportedly rejected Amazon’s attempt to dismiss a price gouging lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik ruled Monday (Jan. 5) that the eCommerce giant’s claims in seeking the dismissal were “unpersuasive,” Reuters reported Monday. Amazon had argued that consumer protection laws in Washington...