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Amazon Sunsets Crowd-Sourced Work Platform MTurk

August 26, 2026
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Amazon Clothing Share Doubles as Walmart Loses Ground
Retail // August 25, 2026

Amazon’s share of U.S. clothing spending has doubled since 2019 while Walmart’s has edged lower, a six-year divergence that was still widening during the first half of 2026. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Retailers Find Bigger Growth Selling Ads Around the Shopping Cart
Retail // August 21, 2026

Retail media is giving Walmart, Target and Amazon a faster-growing source of revenue than their core retail businesses, built on the same traffic, searches and transaction data generated by stores, websites and marketplaces. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Walmart and Amazon Rewrite the Price War
Retail // August 20, 2026

Years of inflation, promotions, personalized discounts and constantly shifting online prices have made shoppers better at finding deals. They have also made it harder for shoppers to know what anything is supposed to truly cost, a fact that is being sharpened against a backdrop of...

Retailers Report AI-Driven Sales and Bigger Baskets in Q2 Earnings
Artificial Intelligence // August 20, 2026

It’s early for artificial intelligence shopping tools, but the results are already showing up in bigger orders and more spending, and major retailers said so this earnings season. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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Amazon Clothing Share Doubles as Walmart Loses Ground

August 25, 2026
Amazon’s share of U.S. clothing spending has doubled since 2019 while Walmart’s has edged lower, a six-year divergence that was still widening during the first half of 2026. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to […]

Walmart and Amazon Rewrite the Price War

August 20, 2026
Years of inflation, promotions, personalized discounts and constantly shifting online prices have made shoppers better at finding deals. They have also made it harder for shoppers to know what anything...

Walmart’s Grocery Lead Faces a Higher-Margin Test

August 19, 2026
Walmart reports earnings Thursday (Aug. 20), and it enters with a valuable retail advantage that looks both powerful and underused. It captures the weekly grocery trip, yet Amazon increasingly captures what...

Amazon Wants Alexa to Look Inside the Fridge and Fill the Cart

August 13, 2026
Amazon’s latest Alexa demonstration looked almost trivial: photograph a refrigerator, ask what groceries are missing, and let artificial intelligence assemble the shopping list. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Amazon Sunsets Crowd-Sourced Work Platform MTurk

August 26, 2026
After 21 years, Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourced work platform Mechanical Turk. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications from PYMNTS […]

AWS Launches $500 Million Effort for Student Cloud Builders

August 20, 2026
Amazon has launched an education program for college students centered around its cloud computing business. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Amazon Eyes Sixfold Expansion of Drone Delivery Service

August 19, 2026
Amazon hopes to offer drone deliveries in nearly 500 U.S. communities by year-end. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Amazon Markets to Student Shoppers With College Campus Locker Additions

August 11, 2026
Amazon has added 750 Locker locations at more than 500 college and university campuses across the United States, the company said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) press release. Get the Full Story Complete the...