Retail

The Vitamin Shoppe on Wednesday (Jan. 28) opened a new Innovation Store on New York ...

Walmart’s appointment of John Furner as its new CEO signals that the retailer intends to ...

Saks Global will wind down the majority of its off-price operations, including most Saks OFF ...

At a high level, the direct-to-consumer (D2C) model arrived with the promise to eliminate intermediaries, ...

Amazon and Walmart are battling on two of the largest, most habitual spending categories in ...

Card spending continued to climb in Mastercard’s fourth quarter, as the payments giant laid out ...

Global lifestyle footwear brand Allbirds will close its remaining full-price stores in the United States ...

Today’s digital-first shoppers are happy to let artificial intelligence lend an electronic hand as they ...

Amazon has agreed to pay $309 million to settle a class action lawsuit in which ...

Instacart has expanded its partnership with retailer-owned co-op Allegiance Retail Services. The collaboration involves the introduction of Instacart’s ...

Mastercard introduced Mastercard Agent Suite, a platform designed to help enterprises integrate agentic artificial intelligence ...

eBay is preparing to bar third-party “buy-for-me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting with its ...

Influencer marketing has become a routine part of shopping, but its real power lies less ...

For nonprofit thrift store company Goodwill, 2025 was apparently a very good year. As The New York ...

Consumer spending continues to move fluidly across digital and physical channels, but groceries are emerging ...

Saks Global’s eCommerce unit, Saks OFF 5th Digital, gained a court’s permission to hire a ...

Microsoft outlined this week how agentic artificial intelligence (AI) robots and vision-enabled agents are already ...

The modern storefront is no longer a place; it’s a moment. Major retail leaders haven’t ...

Dollar General is promoting its same-day delivery service with the offer of one free delivery. From ...

Last year, Seattle-based eCommerce company Coupang suffered a data breach affecting millions of customers. Now, a ...

When Shopify enables sales through artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots later this month, the merchants using its ...

Royal Bank of Canada and some other banks reportedly launched a loan tied to the takeover of TreeHouse Foods, ...

TikTok is reportedly working to entice established brands into selling on TikTok Shop. The new program ...

Amazon has begun rolling out the latest generation of its smart shopping cart. The newest Dash ...

Stripe has no immediate plans to go public, co-founder John Collison told Bloomberg News Tuesday ...

Amazon’s CEO says White House tariffs have begun showing up in the price of some goods. The ...

The first half of the 2020s didn’t just accelerate payments and commerce. It stress-tested every ...

Amazon has launched its first Amazon Now site in the U.K. That’s according to a recent ...

The chief executive of IKEA’s biggest franchisee is touting the virtues of consistency. Speaking with Reuters Monday (Jan. 19), Ingka ...

Walmart Inc. named new leaders of Walmart U.S., Walmart International and Sam’s Club U.S. David Guggina, ...

GameStop plans to close more than 430 stores across the United States this month, The ...

For most of the internet era, consumer search behavior followed a familiar routine. A question arose, ...

The retail landscape is officially closer to 2050 than it is 2000. That is redefining ...

Amazon is reportedly challenging luxury retailer Saks Global’s bankruptcy filing. The eCommerce giant accuses the company ...

The volatility wrought by tariffs is no longer a background risk but a daily operational ...

In the wake of the government shutdown, the delayed November retail sales report that debuted ...

Luxury retail company Saks Global has declared bankruptcy amid mounting debts. The company, which owns Saks ...

Amazon is reportedly seeking reduced prices from its suppliers as it deals with tariffs. The eCommerce ...

Walmart’s online business is no longer defined by how far it trails Amazon, but by ...

Amazon says it is bringing its “Just Walk Out” checkout technology to temporary retail locations. The ...

What’s next in commerce and retail changes almost every day. But some days bring bigger ...

For decades, the retail industry was organized around a familiar axis: price versus experience, scale ...

Wayfair said Monday (Jan. 12) that it participated in the development of Google’s Universal Commerce ...

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol marks a shift in how the company wants transactions to happen ...

Google Cloud introduced Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, a platform designed to help retailers deploy ...

Post-purchase eCommerce platform Route says it has acquired returns and exchanges platform Frate Returns. The company says ...

Walmart has launched an agentic commerce partnership with Google. The collaboration, announced Sunday (Jan. 11), is ...

Walmart-backed FinTech OnePay is now reportedly a $4 billion company. OnePay reached that valuation, up from ...

The Super Bowl has always been a game. It’s also a retail ecosystem with shoulder pads. For ...

Saks Global is reportedly weighing two competing offers of bankruptcy financing packages as it prepares ...

Amazon reportedly plans to open a big-box store comparable to a Walmart or Target location ...

Fiserv has launched a new analytics capability designed to help merchants and their marketing partners ...

In 2026, online and digitally-influenced retail finally surpasses brick-and-mortar sales in the categories that matter ...

Microsoft has announced several agentic artificial intelligence (AI) solutions designed for retailers. These solutions power automation ...

Walmart has launched a digital destination designed to help customers access health and wellness services ...

The holiday shopping spree has come to a close. And while returns are no doubt ...

Swap raised $100 million in a Series C funding round to continue expanding the capabilities ...

Hospitality platform Toast is introducing “retail specific” capabilities for its Toast IQ artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. It’s part ...

PayPal is working with Microsoft to support the launch of the tech giant’s Copilot Checkout. This service allows shoppers ...

Retail media networks are moving from the margins of advertising strategy to the center of ...

For years, checkout has been consumer commerce’s single gravitational center. Innovations from one-click purchasing, digital wallets, ...

German software giant SAP introduced a series of artificial intelligence enhancements for retailers. The new offerings ...

Albertsons Companies is seeing early results of its deeper integration of data and artificial intelligence, ...

The mechanics of many merchants’ B2B payments have long been a source of frustration rather ...

Artificial intelligence-powered tools and commerce platforms are expanding the reach of small retailers, pulling niche, ...

Last year, Walmart introduced Marty, an artificial intelligence (AI) super agent for sellers, suppliers and ...

A federal judge reportedly rejected Amazon’s attempt to dismiss a price gouging lawsuit. U.S. District Judge ...

For most of the 21st century’s eCommerce era, retailers have optimized for a single decision-maker: ...

Merchants are discovering that fraud is no longer a problem they can solve at checkout ...

Returns management provider ReturnPro has launched its Returns Portal App on the Shopify App Store. “Unlike traditional returns apps ...

Let’s start with Amazon. In a recent article published on its site the company outlines how ...

Somewhere between the last peppermint latte and the first “dry January” seltzer, the consumer psyche ...

Saks Global Executive Chairman Richard Baker has assumed the additional role of CEO amid reports that ...

Luxury goods sellers are reportedly facing a tough market after raising their prices significantly after ...

The day after Christmas used to mark the end of peak season. For many retailers in ...