Olivia Bennett 
McCormick has set out the operating model, leadership, and London listing for the company it will form by combining with Unilever Foods in a roughly $44.8 billion deal. Here is how the four-division structure reshapes the balance of power with grocers and online platforms.
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.