Retail’s triple crown of Walmart, Amazon and Target saw major shifts in who shopped this year’s Black Friday sales—and not all the changes were identical. New PYMNTS Intelligence data shows that as millions of Americans became more cost-constrained this summer and fall, they overwhelmingly favored...
Pinterest and Walmart plan to pilot a shoppable recipe experience in the United States and will roll it out over the coming weeks. This collaboration enables Pinterest users to discover recipes on the visual search and discovery platform, tap on ingredients from eligible recipe Pins...
On the holiday gift list, your pet is the only recipient who will neither say “thank you” nor fake delight while quietly calculating the resale value of your choices. Dogs will wag for a box of tissues. Cats will treat a $900 smart gadget with...
Target is reportedly testing new ways to provide next-day delivery. The new models the retailer is testing include shifting fulfillment from busy stores to ones that are less busy, opening a new facility focused on overnight deliveries, and having gig workers handle some deliveries, the...
The defining retail battle of the 21st century has been around who controls the flow between click and doorstep. This has made the real competition less about shelves and inventory, and more about operational networks and their nodes. Networks that retail giants like Amazon and...
Amazon is reportedly evaluating its delivery network after talks with the U.S. Postal Service stalled. If Amazon expands its network, the move would make Amazon the country’s most ubiquitous delivery service and present a blow to the Postal Service’s financial health, The Washington Post reported Thursday (Dec....
Retailers’ demand for real estate reportedly picked up in the third quarter, reversing a decline seen earlier in the year. During the third quarter, retailers moved into 5.5 million more square feet than they vacated, marking a turnaround from the negative net demand seen during...
AWS kicked off re:Invent 2025 in Las Vegas on Tuesday (Dec. 2) with high expectations. As the artificial intelligence (AI) race heats up, Amazon needs to prove that its years of heavy investment in model infrastructure and automated systems are paying off. The company is...
A record number of consumers shopped during the five days from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, with Black Friday remaining the most popular day, according to the National Retail Federation. The number of consumers who shopped during that holiday weekend reached 202.9 million this year,...