A little under a year ago, a strange rumor began to make the rounds in the commerce ecosystem: Amazon was about to buy a TV home shopping network. Specifically, stories emerged that the eCommerce company was in acquisition talks with Evine Live, a cable home shopping...
In the age of subscriptions for movies and even car rentals, consumer goods and eCommerce companies are tapping into recurring purchase models. Some companies offer refills of household cleaning products, for example, while others offer unique selections highlighting the culinary flavor of a region though...
Online marketplaces are taking a page out of the sharing economy playbook for clothing rentals: HURR Collective Co-Founder and CEO Victoria Prew watched the massive rise of the model from car sharing to house sharing and believed fashion needed to be disrupted. The company is...
With an expected Levi Strauss & Co. New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listing on the horizon, the denim company’s initial public offering (IPO) is said to be oversubscribed by greater than 10 times, per unnamed sources. The company is expected to offer 37 million shares...
In the age of smartphones, tablets and voice assistants, the morning or evening commute provides a myriad of opportunities for consumers to interact with the world. Those possibilities also extend to commerce, with connected devices paving the way for new shopping opportunities while consumers are...
Entrepreneurs are sometimes inspired to create companies based on a place where they have strong ties: Eric Smith was born as well as raised in New Mexico and co-founded Nuevo Food Box, which offers a subscription box of food highlighting the flavors of the state....
Women spend a lot of time shopping for clothes each year — by some estimates some 200 hours, or about 8.3 days. Interestingly, though, they aren’t wearing all the clothes they spend so much time looking for: about 20 percent of new clothes go immediately...
To offer solutions for various skin types, Amazon unveiled a line of skincare products called Belei that come in post-consumer recycled resin bottles. The collection has 12 different items, which range from vitamin C serums to retinol moisturizer, the eCommerce retailer said in an announcement....
Amid slowing sales of their core offerings, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA and Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. are looking to tap new areas for growth through a K-Cup machine for cocktails. The Drinkworks drinkmaker machine is coming to Florida, Missouri and California following a test in St....
