DoorDash launched a returns program along with an expansion of its retail marketplace, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 30) press release. The expansion involves partnerships in the apparel, beauty and home spaces, with Macy’s, Anthropologie, The North Face, Vans and Timberland now available options to...
Alibaba Group’s international eCommerce site, AliExpress, is testing a VIP program called Elite, The Information reported Wednesday (Sept. 30), citing an unnamed source. AliExpress is offering Elite on an invitation-only basis to customers in select countries who have spent more than $800 a year on...
Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Sabrina Therani Agentic commerce is becoming an infrastructure race. The biggest agentic constraint today is not whether AI can shop but whether the systems surrounding that AI can determine what an agent is allowed to do, who is...
Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Gaurang Shah of Mastercard Agentic commerce is approaching an awkward transition point in its adoption cycle. The artificial intelligence (AI) foundation is getting good enough to shop for consumers faster than the commercial system responding to it is getting...
Online personal styling service Stitch Fix is seeing a “significant lift” in spending from clients who engage with its tool that lets them see artificial intelligence-generated images of themselves wearing the outfits they’re considering, Stitch Fix CEO Matt Baer said during a Wednesday (Sept. 23)...
Shopify and Meta have partnered to extend the shopping capabilities of Meta’s Muse artificial intelligence assistant, executives said Monday (Sept. 21). Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke said in a Monday post on X: “We are excited to announce we are partnering deeply with Muse to enable...
Shopify is leveraging agentic artificial intelligence to transform digital commerce discovery, lower startup barriers for small and medium-sized businesses, and reinforce its core payments and checkout infrastructure, executives said Thursday (Sept. 10). Speaking at the Goldman Sachs 2026 Communacopia + Technology conference, Shopify Chief Financial...
Website template business Tailwind Labs has joined Shopify, Tailwind Labs Founder and CEO Adam Wathan said in a Wednesday (Sept. 9) blog post. Tailwind’s framework is installed more than 110 million times per week and styles products like ChatGPT, X, Cloudflare, Reddit and Shopify, Wathan...
Latin American eCommerce and FinTech firm MercadoLibre is tapping global debt markets for only the third time, seeking proceeds to be used for general corporate purposes, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Sept. 9), citing unnamed sources. MercadoLibre is offering dollar notes that will mature in 2036 at...