Walmart customers can now have refrigerated and reconstituted prescriptions delivered along with their groceries and other everyday items. In addition, they can purchase these cold-chain prescriptions, which include things like insulin, GLP-1s and pediatric amoxicillin, in the same online order as other goods, the retailer...
Walmart’s third-party marketplace has reportedly opened the door to scammers and sellers of counterfeit goods. That’s according to the findings of a CNBC investigation published Friday (Sept. 19), which showed that customers on the Walmart website sometimes receive counterfeit and potentially dangerous products. The investigation...
Amazon’s subscription cancellation policy will face a jury trial this week. As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (Sept. 21), the case will be a major test of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) efforts to enforce what it alleges are deceptive subscription practices. The...
Overseas retailers are reportedly replacing their B2C models with B2B2C models to reduce the cost of tariffs. By routing customers’ online orders to a wholesale platform that acts as a merchant of record in the United States, retailers can shift the responsibility for paying the...
The retail calendar has always had its tentpoles. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. The holiday rush that begins in earnest when the leaves turn. But this year, the playbook is evolving in real time, shaped by inflation, geopolitical tensions, supply chain fragility and the outsized expectations...
The Mastercard Economics Institute expects holiday spending to increase at a lower rate than last year as consumers navigate a slowdown in hiring in the labor market and uncertainty around the impact of tariffs. Retail sales excluding autos will grow by 3.6% year over year...
Amazon expanded its third-party logistics product to support merchants on rival Walmart. The expansion also covers merchants selling on Shopify and Shein, and follows Amazon’s offering of fulfillment services for merchants on sales channels that include eBay, Etsy, Temu and TikTok Shop, according to a...
Amazon is increasing pay and benefits for its fulfillment and transportation employees in the United States. The company is increasing the average pay for these employees to more than $23 per hour, lowering the cost of its entry-level health plan to $5 per week with...
A year after introducing Project Amelia as a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to answer seller questions, Amazon has upgraded the tool with agentic AI that can reason, plan and take actions with a seller’s approval. The company said in a press release Wednesday (Sept....