Target (NYSE: TGT)

Revolut, the London-based global FinTech with 70 million customers, took its most decisive step yet into the American market Thursday (March 5), filing for a national bank charter with the ...

The US meatpacking industry is facing renewed scrutiny from Senate Democrats who are pushing legislation aimed at limiting the market power of large processors and tightening rules in the beef ...

Senior officials in the United States government are debating whether Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent should be permitted to retain its stakes in major video game developers as President Donald Trump ...

Samsung Electronics has rejected allegations from a subcontractor that claims it suffered financial harm after the technology company allegedly reduced contracted supply volumes during a major fifth-generation (5G) network project ...

Gains in eCommerce, same-day delivery expansion and stepped-up artificial intelligence personalization framed Target’s fourth quarter as an inflection point, even as overall comparable sales remained negative. CEO Michael Fiddelke said in ...

The European Union seeks to guarantee robust consumer protection that responds to the demands and complexities of the modern digital, data-driven environment. The rise of digital market manipulation, innovative business ...

California officials asked a state court on Tuesday to block Amazon.com from what they describe as a long-running effort to keep retail prices artificially high by pressuring merchants not to ...

KFTC Chairperson Ju Biung-ghi said on the 24th that suspected collusion in the school uniform market appears to have become a customary practice and pledged to strengthen oversight and enforcement. Ju ...

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, alongside the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against OhioHealth Corporation, alleging that the healthcare system uses restrictive contracts ...

This Article advances a new framework for digital-age antitrust enforcement by integrating measures of market concentration (such as the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index) with novel metrics of governance concentration (the Nakamoto coefficient ...

Rising prices are reshaping not just household budgets but the financial relationship between generations. Younger and older consumers in the United States are responding to the same pressures in different ways, ...

Federal regulators are reportedly seeking information about Instacart’s artificial intelligence (AI) pricing tool. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent the grocery delivery platform a civil investigative demand asking about its ...

Airbnb is reportedly testing a service that lets guests order groceries from Instacart. The house-sharing company will offer “kitchen stocking” as part of a three-month pilot program starting Jan. 5, Bloomberg ...

DoorDash is expanding its partnership with grocery chain Kroger to 2,700 new stores. The updated collaboration kicks off Oct. 1 and will cover deliveries of fresh foods, essential items and Kroger’s ...

On Tuesday (May 13), we may see what could arguably be the calm before a stormy sea of inflation driven by volatile tariffs. The Consumer Price Index inflation reading from the ...

Instacart has teamed with two point-of-sale (POS) providers to promote smart cart usage. The grocery technology company announced Monday (Jan. 13) new partnerships with Dumac Business Systems, a POS solutions provider ...

Inflation is at a multiyear low, according to July’s Consumer Price Index from the U.S. Department of Labor. Inflation has broken through an important psychological barrier, so to speak. The Federal ...

With order volumes increasing, Deliveroo sees opportunities from its loyalty program and grocery business. The U.K.-based delivery service on Thursday (Aug. 8) released earnings for the first half of 2024 showing ...

With ongoing financial challenges affecting consumers very differently depending on their financial standing, Kroger is seeing its initiative to improve its private-label offerings prove key to getting more budget-strapped shoppers ...

Pay later plans — those arrangements enabling consumers to cover purchases over a set period of time — are not only a popular way to shop; they have increasingly become ...

Companies in the S&P 500 consumer discretionary sector are lagging behind other sectors in earnings due tohigh costs and soft demand, Bloomberg reported Friday (March 6). While 73% of companies across ...

Consumer spending cooled slightly in January, although strong growth in digital retail channels suggests that the broader trajectory of household consumption remains intact. Advance estimates released Friday (March 6) by the ...

Retail used to compete primarily on assortment, price and convenience. Increasingly, it competes on infrastructure and positioning. In a consumer environment defined by uncertainty driven by persistent inflation pressures, cautious spending ...

Splitit aims to make flexible payment options part of agentic commerce through its support of Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). Splitit joins Google and dozens of retail giants in supporting this ...

Kroger’s new CEO Greg Foran is signaling a shift in strategy toward sharper pricing and stronger digital engagement as the grocery giant looks to accelerate sales growth. Reporting its Q4 earnings ...

Corporate earnings releases and conference calls often serve as a real-time test of economic narratives. Management observations offer insight into how consumers behave at the checkout counter and whether they are ...

Gains in eCommerce, same-day delivery expansion and stepped-up artificial intelligence personalization framed Target’s fourth quarter as an inflection point, even as overall comparable sales remained negative. CEO Michael Fiddelke said in ...

Retailers are facing a new and more sophisticated form of return fraud, one in which artificial intelligence is being used against them. Shoppers are submitting AI-generated images of damaged or ...

Best Buy is focused on digital innovation as shoppers continue to show caution. The electronics retailer released quarterly earnings results Tuesday (March 3) that showed a 0.8% dip in sales as ...

Walgreens has debuted what it calls the country’s first “hybrid pharmacy” program. The service, announced by the retailer last week, lets pharmacists divide their time between working in stores for part of the ...

The construction industry builds skylines, bridges and critical infrastructure, yet its own critical financial infrastructure often runs on outdated payment practices. Findings in the February 2026 edition of the B2B and ...

Indian payments platform PhonePe reportedly hopes to go public at a valuation of $9 billion to $10.5 billion. This indicates that the Walmart-backed company will raise around $900 million to $1.05 ...

Watch more: Need to Know With North’s Suril Patel When merchants viewed payments solely through the lens of cost, they typically looked for as little cost as possible. But that one-dimensional calculus ...

Ripple Payments now allows customers to collect, hold, exchange and payout in both fiat and stablecoins. The platform also enables customers to provision named virtual accounts and wallets, automate collection flows, ...

PayPay reportedly hopes to raise up to $1.1 billion when it goes public. That’s according to a report Tuesday (March 3) from Bloomberg News, which says it would be the largest ever initial public ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Paymentus’ Nicole Haskins The FinTech landscape has overindexed on innovation. But in an operational landscape defined by automation, predictive analytics, and invisible payments, the ...

Interoperability in crypto payments has long been discussed as a technical aspiration. Over the past several months, it has started to look more like a commercial necessity. As stablecoins and digital ...

Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are approaching a practical turning point in how they pay. Cash and checks still play an outsized role in day-to-day operations, especially for supplier and ...

Tuesday (Feb. 24) marked a potentially seismic day in the payments industry. Rumors of Stripe’s interest in PayPal emerged after hours on Tuesday, initially reported by the likes of Bloomberg, with ...

PayPal Holdings has met with banks at a time when it is seeing unsolicited interest from would-be buyers, Bloomberg reported Monday (Feb. 23), citing unnamed sources. The company is drawing takeover ...