James Chen 
Payment passkeys are spreading fastest where regulators dated the end of SMS OTP, not where e-commerce is biggest. The signals point to a further mandate market getting a named issuer or PSP rollout before the end of Q1 2027.
BJ’s Wholesale Club reports second quarter fiscal 2026 results before the open on Friday, August 21, with consensus near $1.16 per share on about $5.89 billion in revenue. The print tests whether tariff refund dollars spent on lower shelf prices can lift an ex-gasoline comparable that ran below guidance in Q1.
Checkout customisation on Shopify now runs through extensions and functions. Here is what survived the change and what did not.
The Census Bureau publishes July retail and food services sales on Friday, August 14 at 8:30 a.m. ET, the last broad read on US demand before 50% Section 338 tariffs on Canadian goods take effect. June’s $768.6bn baseline was flattered by a late Prime Day, leaving July with a hard comparison.
A dark store is a warehouse pretending to be a shop. Layout, slotting and staffing decide whether the delivery promise survives peak hour.
A fast-growing group of US states is moving to outlaw surveillance pricing, the practice of using a shopper’s personal data to set an individual price, …
Blocking every AI crawler removes you from AI shopping answers. Here is how to decide crawler by crawler.
AI agents drop products they cannot verify. These are the feed fields that decide inclusion and how to audit yours.
Late co-founder equity is a valuation problem dressed as a fairness problem. Here are the structures that survive contact with growth.
The founder-to-operator handover changes pricing, product and marketing in predictable ways. Here is what usually improves and what usually gets lost.