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Allison Smith

Allison Smith

Allison Smith is an e-commerce platforms reporter at Modern Retail. Her coverage includes Amazon and its competitors such as TikTok, Shopify and Temu. Allison previously covered corporate finance at Bloomberg News. Her reporting has also appeared in The Guardian, Grub Street and Crain’s Detroit Business. Allison lives in New York and can be reached via email at allison@modernretail.co or through text message or Signal at 972-742-0191.

Allison Smith

Allison Smith is an e-commerce platforms reporter at Modern Retail. Her coverage includes Amazon and its competitors such as TikTok, Shopify and Temu. Allison previously covered corporate finance at Bloomberg News. Her reporting has also appeared in The Guardian, Grub Street and Crain’s Detroit Business. Allison lives in New York and can be reached via email at allison@modernretail.co or through text message or Signal at 972-742-0191.

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Global Retail

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Marketplace Briefing: Why ChatGPT checkout could take a bite out of Walmart’s $4 billion ad business

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E-commerce sites see low sales from ChatGPT traffic, study finds

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New Economic Realities

‘We were getting crushed’: Brands cut back on free online returns to offset tariff costs

October 21, 2025
The Amazon Effect

Walmart.com’s search results put ads front and center — a playbook Amazon pioneered

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Marketplace Briefing: Amazon’s fall Prime event sees early holiday surge as consumers chase discounts

October 09, 2025
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Modern Retail+ Research: How Amazon sellers are prepping for a deal-heavy October Prime Day and holiday season

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Marketplace Briefing: Why ChatGPT checkout isn’t a threat to Amazon’s dominance — yet

October 02, 2025
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AppLovin rebrands its ad platform as Axon, launches ads manager on referral-only basis

October 01, 2025
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Modern Retail+ Research: How 3 Amazon sellers are navigating tariffs, stockouts and shifting consumer demand so far in 2025

September 30, 2025
Global Retail

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Marketplace Briefing: Why e-commerce firm Pattern went public — and how it plans to spend $300 million in IPO proceeds

September 25, 2025
Store of the Future

ChatGPT is now 20% of Walmart’s referral traffic — while Amazon wards off AI shopping agents

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The Amazon Effect

Takeaways from Amazon’s pitch at its annual conference for third-party sellers

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Marketplace Briefing

Marketplace Briefing: Why Amazon is extending its logistics muscle to competitors like Shein and Walmart

September 18, 2025
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