The e-commerce giant has quietly blocked more OpenAI-related bots from crawling Amazon.com, according to updates in its publicly visible robots.txt file.
Some Amazon sellers are reducing or skipping their Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions as tariffs and platform fees squeeze margins.
Bogg fast-tracked its new Bougie Quilted Collection after Trump-era tariffs disrupted its supply chain and slashed revenue projections, pushing the brand to diversify products.
Some Amazon sellers are reducing or skipping their Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions as tariffs and platform fees squeeze margins.
Kroger has launched a weekly AI-generated insights report for brand executives, analysts or category managers to analyze their performance.
In partnership with OpenAI, Target plans to launch a new Target app within ChatGPT beginning the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
About 40% of Pink Chicken’s eight-figure business comes from its own stores, which host community events and pack in colorful merchandise.
Online shoppers are getting blindsided by tariff invoices from shipping carriers and U.S. customs. Logistics experts say the complicated issue of accidental bills could drag on for months.
Free online returns — once a standard perk of e-commerce — are becoming the latest casualty of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
DTC brand Quince says some of its customers are mistakenly being hit with tariff bills even though the brand has absorbed the fees.
Amazon quietly rolled out a new agentic shopping feature in Rufus, the company’s artificial intelligence-powered shopping assistant, that will automatically buy products for shoppers when they go on sale.
TikTok Shop is preparing for the peak holiday shopping season, when strong sales are often accompanied by an uptick in counterfeit goods and fraudulent behavior.
John Shapiro, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Lightspeed Commerce Competing for consumer dollars has never been tougher. Today’s shoppers still care about price and quality — but they’re also asking who made the product, where it came from and whether it aligns with their values. This shift toward intentional purchasing, or “valuespending,” is changing the […]
BravoCon’s fan convention returned this year with more brand sponsorships than ever before, including Clorox, Tresemmé and Wayfair. Here’s how parent company NBCU is trying to position BravoCon as more of a shoppable moment.
Younger shoppers are cutting back on Chipotle, but spending more at Coach. As Gen Z mixes bargain shopping with luxury splurges, brands are charged with finding the middle ground.
Even as brands like Red Bull and Kraft Natural Cheese jump on the Advent calendar bandwagon, there are few signs that customers are getting Advent calendar fatigue; brands like Spunky Pup, Bartesian and Bonne Maman say they continue to sell well.
After nearly two decades of wholesale, clothing brand Frank and Eileen is opening its first U.S. flagship in New York City.
This season, retailers and shoppers alike are contending with a shorter holiday shopping window — on top of tariffs, waning consumer sentiment and recession fears.
Bradley Keefer, CRO, Keen Decision Systems Despite the emergence of October sales events and December’s strong sales performance last year, Black Friday remains the premier event for retailers. Last year, the NRF found that an estimated 197 million consumers, up from their initial prediction of 183.4 million, shopped during the five-day holiday weekend between Thanksgiving […]
