Retail

Amazon is making it easier for merchants to participate in Shop Direct, its program that ...

OpenAI is shifting the focus of its commerce efforts to retailers’ ChatGPT apps after scaling back ...

Amazon secured a temporary injunction to stop Perplexity’s artificial intelligence agent from shopping and making ...

Kohl’s turnaround efforts are being challenged by the continued economic pressures facing its core customers. The ...

The steady migration of consumer spending toward digital channels continued through the end of 2025, ...

Commerce software firm Mirakl has joined forces with J.P. Morgan Payments. This collaboration, announced Tuesday (March 10) will combine Mirakl’s Nexus ...

Every day seems to bring another announcement about artificial intelligence agents that can search, compare ...

Companies in the S&P 500 consumer discretionary sector are lagging behind other sectors in earnings ...

Consumer spending cooled slightly in January, although strong growth in digital retail channels suggests that ...

Retail used to compete primarily on assortment, price and convenience. Increasingly, it competes on infrastructure ...

Costco is seeing measurable benefits from its latest digital initiatives both in-store and online, Costco ...

Splitit aims to make flexible payment options part of agentic commerce through its support of ...

Kroger’s new CEO Greg Foran is signaling a shift in strategy toward sharper pricing and ...

Corporate earnings releases and conference calls often serve as a real-time test of economic narratives. Management ...

The most consequential customer a brand will acquire in 2026 may never read a promotional ...

Gains in eCommerce, same-day delivery expansion and stepped-up artificial intelligence personalization framed Target’s fourth quarter ...

Retailers are facing a new and more sophisticated form of return fraud, one in which ...

Klarna’s flexible payment options will soon be available for purchases initiated by artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Best Buy is focused on digital innovation as shoppers continue to show caution. The electronics retailer ...

Growth in eCommerce, iGaming and digital wallets shaped Paysafe’s fourth quarter, offering a counterweight to ...

Amazon has introduced an artificial intelligence-powered feature for merchants who sell through its marketplace. Called ...

Meta is reportedly testing a shopping research function in its AI chatbot. That’s according to a ...

ThredUp credited artificial intelligence (AI) with boosting its results in the fourth quarter by reducing ...

Walgreens has debuted what it calls the country’s first “hybrid pharmacy” program. The service, announced by the retailer ...

Target is reportedly facing criticism from a group of investors unhappy with its management’s decisions. That’s ...

The TJX Companies plans to add 146 net new stores during its fiscal year 2027, which ...

When it comes to the Amazon-Walmart competition, grocery has become a key battleground. Why? It’s ...

The RealReal’s latest earnings message is less about a single quarter’s sales tally and more ...

A U.K. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday (Feb. 26) that two lawsuits alleging that Amazon ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With FIS’ Mladen Vladic Innovation in payments has historically followed ...

Financial stress is no longer just shaping what Americans buy. It is reshaping how they ...

Home improvement company Lowe’s saw growth in its Pro, online and Home Services businesses in ...

About a hundred years ago, so the story goes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicler of the ...

Mercado Libre’s application of artificial intelligence across its online commerce ecosystem added revenue and enhanced ...

Keurig Dr Pepper saw growth across its business segments in the fourth quarter as it advanced ...

Home Depot is learning to grow even when housing does not. The retailer on Tuesday (Feb. ...

The value of the luxury resale space reportedly grew to $59 billion last year. That’s according ...

The smartphone is no longer just a shopping tool. It has become the storefront. That was ...

Walmart has introduced a new data insights platform for its retail suppliers. Scintilla In-Store is an ...

Modern furniture brand Article now offers Klarna’s flexible payment options at checkout in the United ...

Saks Global received court approval Friday (Feb. 20) for a $1 billion bankruptcy loan, Reuters ...

Google is taking a step toward formalizing how artificial intelligence (AI) agents interact with the ...

Payment services provider Worldline is preparing to expand the availability of its new omnichannel retail ...

Digital transformation is inherently disruptive. For legacy sectors such as automotive, adapting to a digital-first ...

Talk about raining on the parade. New Walmart CEO John Furner’s first earnings call was ...

Etsy is joining the Prompt Economy in a big way. Its fourth-quarter results, reported Friday (Feb. ...

The velocity of change in B2B eCommerce isn’t just moving the goalposts. It’s creating a ...

Online retail platform eBay has invested in TrueLayer as part of a partnership with the ...

Investors were looking for answers during Carvana’s fourth quarter 2025 earnings call Wednesday (Feb. 18). ...

Walk into a top-tier mall in a high-income suburb right now and you can still ...

Enter a new term into the artificial intelligence (AI) lexicon: recommendation poisoning. With agentic AI reshaping ...

Fifty years ago, Susan was one of more than a hundred million Americans who drove ...

Amazon has proposed a second big-box store in the Chicago area, Mass Market Retailers (MMR) ...

For decades, loyalty followed a familiar rhythm: Consumers earned points on credit card purchases and ...

FedEx says it is focusing on “high-margin” clients to reach $98 billion in revenue in 2029. During ...

What used to be a retail war between Amazon and Walmart is now a platform ...

A growing share of retail small businesses are not planning for the next downturn so ...

Google’s standard for connecting businesses and artificial intelligence (AI) agents is beginning to power checkout ...

Google is reportedly offering users new ways to shop while seeking AI-powered answers. The company has ...

Ahold Delhaize saw quarterly digital sales surge as more American consumers do their grocery-buying online. The ...

The eCommerce landscape is changing, and infrastructure platforms like Shopify are at the center of ...

Television shopping network QVC Group has held confidential talks with creditors to restructure its debt in bankruptcy, ...

The 21st century retail battle is no longer being waged primarily over assortment, price, or ...

Mastercard and eCommerce enabler Bosta are partnering to support small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in ...

Poland-based parcel locker company InPost has been sold for $9.2 billion (7.8 billion euros). The deal, announced Monday (Feb. 9), ...

An overload of customer requests has reportedly led Alibaba’s AI chatbot to pause issuing coupons. The issue ...

Grocery giant Kroger named former Walmart executive Greg Foran as its new CEO. Foran took the ...

“I think arrogance and disruption got us into trouble,” Scott Painter tells PYMNTS CEO ...

What began as a checkout convenience for sneakers and sofas is now threading its way ...

Apparel, accessories and cosmetics companies are focusing on higher-income consumers, Reuters reported Thursday (Feb. 5). Companies ...

Corporate rivalries are traditionally cast in simple, static terms. Take, for example, the competition between Amazon and Walmart, which ...

Peloton reported fiscal second-quarter results that missed revenue expectations, reflecting slower-than-anticipated equipment upgrades among existing ...

Target’s new CEO, Michael Fiddelke, said Wednesday (Feb. 4) during a company town hall event that ...

The world’s newest trillion-dollar company also has a new CEO. And no, it’s not Disney. And ...

PepsiCo is moving to lower prices on some of its best-known snack brands, citing mounting ...