Retail

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 ...

Earlier this year, private equity firm Onyx Partners announced plans to buy 117 JCPenney stores. But ...

Ocado Group is set to offer its grocery technology to more potential customers after its ...

Walmart’s app and website reportedly suffered an outage Tuesday (Dec. 30), affecting thousands of customers. More ...

This year, artificial intelligence shifted from assisting to acting. Agentic AI, systems that can plan multistep ...

Malls are drawing Gen Z shoppers by catering to young people’s desire to socialize in ...

South Korean retailer Coupang is preparing to compensate customers impacted by a massive data breach. The eCommerce company ...

Watch: How Smart Basket Redesigns the Economics of Loyalty Brands and merchants are competing for consumer ...

America’s retailers are reportedly unhappy with the end of penny production. According to a recent report ...

Toms Capital Investment Management (TCIM), a U.S. hedge fund known to be an activist investor, ...

Walmart is reportedly gaining a growing amount of online business in New York City. The retailer ...

(2025) Snow falls soft on legacy rails, Paper checks stuck in the mail. We gather ‘round the dashboard ...

From new multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) models to immersive storytelling spaces and agent-driven enterprise tools, ...

Holiday shoppers are willing to spend but are looking for value, Tanger CEO Stephen Yalof ...

Consumers continue to spend more on their debit cards, although the rate of growth has ...

American consumers spent more this holiday season while using cross-channel shopping and artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Saks Global is considering bankruptcy while facing a $100 million-plus debt payment, Bloomberg reported Monday ...

Instacart is suspending its price testing practice on its grocery delivery platform, according to a ...

Jewelry retailer Pandora is seeing the benefits of agentic artificial intelligence amid a leadership change. The ...

Watch more: Monday Conversation: Visa’s Rubail Birwadker A digital assistant can already do a lot of ...

Consumers are increasingly comfortable completing purchases directly inside artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, signaling a potential ...

Retailers are no longer treating embedded finance as a checkout enhancement. The data show it ...

Among retail’s most dominant themes in 2025 was that the next era of competition is ...

After weeks of a government shutdown, economic data continue to roll in, and the latest ...

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Paysafe’s Roy Aston In payments, the most meaningful breakthroughs can ...

Watch more: Digital Shift: Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt For more than two decades, eCommerce innovation has been ...

Revolve Group, a fashion retailer for millennial and Generation Z consumers, now offers Affirm’s flexible ...

Wix has teamed with Stripe to offer more local payment options in Europe. Although Wix Payments ...

Square has expanded its partnership with inventory management reporting system Thrive. The expanded collaboration is designed ...

After weeks of delay, a fresh wave of government data is finally offering a clearer ...

Livestream shopping is popular in China, but it hasn’t caught on in the United States. That ...

Temu has launched an app that enables Shopify merchants to list products on Temu’s marketplace ...

Klarna launched an open standard that it said makes products easily discoverable and understandable by ...

Anthropologie, Chipotle and Starbucks have become the final lease signees at Walmart’s new Home Office, ...

The traditional holiday shopping journey, a linear path of keyword searches, doom-scrolling and multi-step checkouts, ...

Target has opened a concept store that the retailer said is part of its “design-driven ...

Costco’s digital transformation continues, as the fiscal first quarter delivered double-digit growth in digital comparable ...

When one thinks of retail competition, the battle between eCommerce and brick-and-mortar is typically what ...

Shopify this week introduced its Agentic Storefronts to put merchant products directly into the AI ...

Stripe has introduced a new solution designed to help brands and eCommerce platforms sell through ...

Merchants have spent much of the eCommerce era obsessed over understanding a single buyer: the ...

Consumer retail spending from the week before Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday (Dec. 1) was up ...

Uber has launched a collaboration with Shopify aimed at speeding delivery for merchants. The partnership makes ...

Petco has reported that a setting within one of its software applications made customers’ personal ...

Amazon says its same-day perishable grocery delivery service has reached 2,300-plus communities. Now, Amazon is planning additional ...

Changes in how consumers shop and pay never happen all at once. The transformation doesn’t ...

Amazon is rolling out new shopping features for its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Alexa+. As reported Tuesday (Dec. 9) ...

Watch more: The Digital Shift: Verra Mobility’s Stacey Moser Automakers have spent the past decade polishing ...

Retail’s triple crown of Walmart, Amazon and Target saw major shifts in who shopped this ...

Ulta Beauty reported strong third-quarter results, with digital engagement rising, eCommerce up in the mid-teen ...

Food stores and retail establishments in New York are required to accept cash payments for ...

Pinterest and Walmart plan to pilot a shoppable recipe experience in the United States and ...

On the holiday gift list, your pet is the only recipient who will neither say ...

Overall consumer credit growth slowed in October, but the headline number masks a trend: households ...

Google is adding four new features to the autofill function of its Chrome browser that ...

Target is reportedly testing new ways to provide next-day delivery. The new models the retailer is ...

A trio of labor reports, spanning government, private sector data and PYMNTS Intelligence findings, shows ...