Etsy has added artificial intelligence (AI)-powered title suggestions and writing assistance to its tools for sellers. These tools are among several new offerings the company has added to its eCommerce platform ahead of the holiday shopping season, according to a Monday (Sept. 15) blog post. The...
Rent the Runway is continuing to roll out new personalized recommendations and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered enhancements as part of a wide-ranging transformation of its fashion subscription, rental and resale platform. The company’s changes also include improvements to inventory strategy, product innovation and connection with core...
Consumers may be spending more of their retail dollars online, but the single biggest draw to brick-and-mortar stores isn’t groceries, clothes or electronics. It’s lipstick and lotion. That’s one of the unexpected findings in PYMNTS Intelligence’s “How People Pay Report: Health and Beauty Products Draw...
Walmart is offering support at an event and a dedicated office to encourage U.K. and European businesses to use its online marketplaces to sell to customers in the Americas. The company is promoting to these businesses its marketplaces in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Chile,...
Instacart has launched a partnership with wholesale grocery distributor group Merchants Distributors (MDI). This collaboration, announced Thursday (Aug. 28), is designed to offer Instacart’s eCommerce solutions to MDI’s network of independent grocers. Those grocers, the companies said in a news release, will be able to join the Instacart App to...
Watch more: Agentic AI Needs Strong Verification to Unlock Safe, Scalable Commerce For merchants, the coming wave of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) represents both a revenue opportunity and a rising fraud risk. Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping assistants—algorithms executing purchases on behalf of consumers—are already starting...
Wix says its merchants can now promote and sell products directly on Pinterest. “This integration opens new social commerce opportunities and enhances monetization potential for online stores built on Wix,” the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company said in a Tuesday (Aug. 26) email to PYMNTS announcing the...
In the rush to expand internationally, merchants may be overlooking a simple but potent tool: the one-click checkout. While digital wallets and real-time payments grab headlines, the frictionless final step of the transaction may hold the greatest potential for conversion and a boost in revenues...
Earlier this year, PYMNTS Intelligence detailed that in-store shopping was far from dead. But when it comes to buying online, we found that consumers spent more when getting items through digital channels, and key areas of discretionary spending were gravitating to online merchants. The data...