Off-price clothing retailer Burlington is the latest company using tariff refunds to reduce prices. “It feels like the right thing to do for our customers,” CEO Michael O’Sullivan said on the company’s earnings call last week. “Over the last few years, many households, especially moderate- to lower-income families, have struggled with...
Retailers and consumer goods companies have begun lowering prices thanks to tariff refunds. Walmart, Tractor Supply and e.l.f. Beauty are among the companies going this route, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday (Aug. 31), noting that these price cuts are designed to juice sales...
Retail, since the category’s inception, has embraced the maxim that population density equals sales destiny. That calculus has largely held steady in the age of eCommerce and shifting customer expectations, too. After all, the economics of last-mile delivery improve when more customers can be packed...
After 21 years, Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourced work platform Mechanical Turk. “We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and make adjustments based on those assessments,” the tech giant wrote Tuesday (Aug. 25) in a notice posted to the Mechanical Turk (MTurk) website. “Following an assessment, we’ve...
Amazon’s share of U.S. clothing spending has doubled since 2019 while Walmart’s has edged lower, a six-year divergence that was still widening during the first half of 2026. PYMNTS Intelligence estimates that Amazon accounted for 17.0% of U.S. clothing spending in 2025, compared with 8.5%...
Amazon has denied details cited in a media report about its plans for an automated delivery-station concept, saying the concept is one of many being evaluated and the plans will likely change. Seeking Alpha reported Monday (Aug. 24), citing a paywalled article by Business Insider, that Amazon is developing an...
Walmart’s move to NFC lands as mobile wallets are taking a larger role at the register, giving one of the prominent remaining retail holdouts in the United States the same contactless payment infrastructure already common across much of the market. Beginning Monday (Aug. 24), Walmart...
Walmart is reportedly rolling out a new line of clothing to court younger consumers. The retailer’s Scenario brand is set to debut this week, with most items costing under $25 as Walmart seeks to appeal to its core of discount shoppers and regain ground from...
Retail media is giving Walmart, Target and Amazon a faster-growing source of revenue than their core retail businesses, built on the same traffic, searches and transaction data generated by stores, websites and marketplaces. The latest quarter showed the gap. Sales from Walmart Connect increased 43%...