For every $100 Americans spent at retailers in the second quarter, $17.10 went through eCommerce, extending a gradual but persistent redirection of retail spending toward digital channels. The 17.1% share reported for the second quarter of 2026 by the U.S. Census Bureau in its “Quarterly...
Brunello Cucinelli replaced its traditional eCommerce site on Jan. 21 with a platform that builds a different shopping experience for each visitor rather than routing everyone through the same fixed pages and menus. The system, called Callimacus, was developed by Solomei AI, the Italian luxury...
The RealReal has spent the past year rebuilding its core operations around artificial intelligence, and growth has been accelerating alongside it. The company’s intake system, Athena, now automates authentication and cataloging steps that once required manual attribution, and a new pricing algorithm evaluates more than...
A year after lowering the threshold for free shipping in Brazil, Mercado Libre has seen the offering drive “a structural change in behavior,” the eCommerce and FinTech company said in a Wednesday (Aug. 5) press release reporting its second-quarter earnings results. Since Mercado Libre made...
eCommerce accelerator Pattern is seeing a “virtuous cycle” in which the company uses its data to deliver results to brands, other brands see that success, and those brands provide the company with more data, Pattern Co-Founder and CEO Dave Wright said during a Wednesday (Aug....
TikTok is reportedly testing a membership program for U.S. shoppers, similar to Amazon Prime. That’s according to a report Friday (July 24) from Business Insider, citing screenshots of the offering seen by its journalists. According to the report, the program is called TikTok Shop Plus,...
For merchants looking overseas for growth, the fastest route may run straight through the checkout page. That is the central finding of “Payments Optimization: Powering Global eCommerce Growth,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report done with Worldpay. The report argues that cross-border demand is there, but too many merchants still...
Reviews website Trustpilot has reportedly launched a partnership with eCommerce platform Shopify. The arrangement will let merchants showcase and manage Trustpilot reviews on their online stores, Bloomberg News reported Saturday (June 27), citing an interview with Adrian Blair, Trustpilot’s chief executive. Blair said that third-party...
In an era of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping, merchants are discovering that one of their most powerful customer relation tools may be hiding in plain sight: the humble checkout page. That conclusion emerges from “The Next-Gen Commerce Playbook: Turning Checkout Into a Compounding Customer Loop,”...