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Watch more: Monday Conversation: Misfits Market, Abhi Ramesh There’s a lot more to the Misfits Market story these days than ugly food. What began with misshapen carrots and off-size avocados has grown into a full‑stack grocery and logistics platform that now sells household essentials. and increasingly...
Generation Z is often portrayed as a disruptive force, reinventing money, work and consumption. Yet PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Gen Z Decoder Ring” report suggests something more subtle, and in some ways more telling. The real story isn’t that this generation is different. It’s that they are...
Heightened competition in Brazil’s eCommerce market reportedly drove shares of Mercado Libre into their biggest two-day slump since November. The eCommerce and payments company’s stock fell 6.8% on Wednesday (Oct. 1) after declining 6.6% on Tuesday (Sept. 30), Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The report attributed the...
PayPal Honey plans to add new agentic commerce features designed to facilitate shopping within conversations between consumers and artificial intelligence-powered chatbots. When an AI chatbot delivers product recommendations in response to a consumer’s query, the PayPal Honey extension will display those products with real-time pricing,...
Online personal styling service Stitch Fix continued to add digital and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools during the latest quarter, aiming to reinforce its shopping experience that includes both human stylists and an app that gets to know the customer via a styling quiz. “Our strong...
Instagram has reportedly reached 3 billion monthly users, reinforcing its position as parent company Meta’s key source of revenue growth. As Meta works to keep driving that growth, it is shifting Instagram’s focus from the traditional photo feed to short-form video and private messaging, Bloomberg...
Brand-aggregator rollups once promised to transform online retail but largely failed to deliver, as the frenzied accumulation of brands met the cold reality of supply chain frictions during the heights of the pandemic. Pattern Group’s September 19 initial public offering signals a different path. One...
TikTok will still feel familiar to the 170 million Americans who scroll through it every day, but the company behind the app would be restructured under a proposal being considered Tuesday (Sept. 16). The plan, under discussion by the U.S. and China this week, would...
Tariffs are reportedly leading to confusion and frustration among eCommerce shoppers in the United States. At the end of August, the President Donald Trump administration ended the so-called de minimis tariff rule for all packages from overseas. The rule had exempted parcels worth less than...