An AI crawler policy for retailers: GPTBot, search bots and scrapers
Blocking every AI crawler removes you from AI shopping answers. Here is how to decide crawler by crawler.
James Chen
Product feeds for AI shopping agents: the fields that decide inclusion
AI agents drop products they cannot verify. These are the feed fields that decide inclusion and how to audit yours.
Splitting equity when a co-founder joins a retail brand late
Late co-founder equity is a valuation problem dressed as a fairness problem. Here are the structures that survive contact with growth.
Founder-led versus operator-led retail brands: what changes at scale
The founder-to-operator handover changes pricing, product and marketing in predictable ways. Here is what usually improves and what usually gets lost.
Farmers market vendors selling online: what works, what fails
Market vendors do not need a full store. These are the online models that fit a stall, a truck and a short growing season.
A regional chain that grew after cutting half of its SKUs
Cutting range sounds like cutting sales. This case study shows how a regional chain removed half its lines and grew anyway.
Why India’s quick-commerce pure-plays face a year-end funding squeeze: 3 signals
India’s quick-commerce pure-plays are likely to be forced into a decisive move before year-end 2026 as Walmart-owned Flipkart and Amazon deploy capital they cannot match. Three signals point to Zepto blinking first: a compressed IPO, a rescue, or retrenchment.
Nike cuts 1,000 online storefronts in China: brand control over reach
Nike will close more than 1,000 online storefronts run by partners across Chinese marketplaces and route sales through official channels only, effective January. The reset trades near-term volume in its third-largest market for tighter control of price and brand.
Amazon Now Turns On 30-Minute Delivery for Millions, Guns for Tens of Millions
Amazon is switching on its 30-minute delivery service, Amazon Now, for millions of shoppers, and this morning the company reaffirmed the bigger goal behind it: …
Why another scaled delivery player is likely to exit independence before year-end: 3 consolidation signals
Uber’s move on Delivery Hero, DoorDash folding Wolt and Deliveroo into one ad engine, and Zepto’s imminent IPO all point the same way. The pattern suggests another scaled delivery or quick-commerce independent exits, by sale or listing, before year-end 2026.