Olivia Bennett 
Caraway, the ceramic nonstick cookware brand that built its name selling directly to shoppers online, is now stocking more than 500 Walmart stores. The rollout, …
Community commerce is a model where a brand’s own customers, not its ads, drive discovery and sales. Shoppers who share a passion connect through social …
TikTok Shop’s June four-market launch and its Sell Across Europe tool signal a pivot from a per-country app to a unified pan-European marketplace. The pattern points to the Shop Tab reaching all ten EU markets before the 2026 holiday quarter, with a GMV milestone in the same window.
Moneybox is running a secondary share sale of up to 45 million pounds that values the fintech at about 800 million pounds. The deal uses London’s new Pisces private-securities market to give long-serving employees liquidity without an IPO.
Three signals from the last month point to in-store retail media measurement, not off-site, as the decisive battleground. Expect another top-tier US retailer to move before Q4 2026 earnings wrap.
Kroger’s mid-June quarter shows store-based fulfillment beating the automated central warehouse in the US. Three signals point to a likely Ocado strategic reset by spring 2027.
The US killed de minimis, the EU is following, and safety rules are tightening. The cheap-parcel arbitrage behind Temu and Shein is running out of road.
US Customs and Border Protection’s bulk tariff refund rollout stumbled on July 3 as 4.36 million entries failed validation. More than $71bn in IEEPA duty refunds has been certified, but finally liquidated importers are being left out.
Payments for AI agents now look solved; the binding constraint for holiday 2026 is whether an agent can find and trust a merchant’s product feed. The prediction: by Black Friday, live agentic purchases concentrate among feed-ready, directory-listed US merchants.
Chewy beat first-quarter profit estimates with net sales up 7.7% to $3.36 billion and 21.5 million active customers. But the online pet retailer cut its 2026 sales outlook, citing cooler consumer spending, and the stock slipped.