Klarna Goes Live on J.P. Morgan Payments, Opening BNPL Checkout to U.S. Merchants
Klarna’s flexible payment options went live on J.P. Morgan Payments’ Commerce Platform on August 6, 2026, giving U.S. merchants a way to add buy now, …
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WARN notices and retail layoffs: what the filings actually tell you
WARN notices surface before the press release. Here is how to read them and what they do and do not prove.
Cohort retention reporting for brands selling replenishable products
Blended repeat rate flatters every brand. Cohort tables show whether new customers are actually behaving like the old ones.
Case study: a pet brand that moved from Amazon-first to its own site
Moving revenue off Amazon is slow and expensive before it pays. This case study follows the sequence, the numbers and the mistakes.
How to read the monthly US retail sales report properly
The monthly retail sales release drives headlines that often misread it. This is how to interpret the numbers, revisions and control group.
How Gen Alpha shops and what retailers should prepare for
Gen Alpha is arriving with different discovery habits and no card of its own. Here is what is observable today and what it implies for retail.
BNPL refunds and disputes: what happens when an order goes wrong
Returns and disputes on BNPL orders follow the provider’s rules, not the card network’s. Here is what merchants need to get right.
Grocery shrink in fresh departments and how to bring it down
Fresh departments carry most of a grocer’s shrink. This is how to measure it by category and fix ordering before markdowns pile up.
Why the next wave of retailer marketplaces will be curated, not open: 3 signals
Signals from Target Plus, Best Buy and marketplace-platform vendors point to a cluster of curated, invitation-only retailer marketplaces launching before the 2026 holiday season. Here is why curation, not breadth, is likely to define the next wave.
Why US buy-now-pay-later is converting into deposit-funded banking: 3 charter signals
Klarna and Affirm are both pursuing US industrial bank charters, and the pattern points to buy-now-pay-later converting from securitization-funded lending into deposit-funded banking. Expect the first hard tells before year-end 2026 and product moves in 2027.