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Online Mobile Sales Dip During Navratri Festivals
India's smartphone sales fall 16% year-on-year during Navratri ecommerce events amid price hikes.
The Economic Times · 1m

Indonesia's Tax Drive Upsets Ecommerce Sellers
Indonesia's new ecommerce tax disrupts sellers and businesses.
Nikkei Asia · 1m

Amazon Cuts E-commerce Jobs in Downsizing
Amazon trimmed fewer than 1,000 corporate e-commerce jobs in latest downsizing wave.
Pymnts · 1m

Amazon Lets Merchants Add Free Prime Delivery
Amazon enables merchants to add free Prime delivery to their websites without extra fees.
Pymnts · 1m

Amazon AI Agents Power Merchant Operations
Amazon’s AI shifts from answering to automating merchant decisions.
Pymnts · 1m

Squarespace September 2026 promo codes
Squarespace is offering discounts up to 50% off in September 2026 for new and existing users.
WIRED · 2m

Hostinger discounts: 79% off web hosting plans
Hostinger offers steep discounts across its web hosting tiers, from budget plans for individuals to enterprise solutions for growing businesses.
WIRED · 2m

Shopify Powers Meta’s Muse AI with Shop Pay Checkout
Shopify integrates Shop Pay checkout into Meta’s Muse AI for seamless shopping.
Pymnts · 1m

Holiday Ecommerce Sales Forecast Hits $275 Billion Amid Economic Strain
Adobe predicts U.S. holiday online sales will reach $275.1 billion despite rising consumer economic worries
Adweek · 1m

Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI from shopping
Amazon banned Meta's new AI agent from its marketplace over transparency and security concerns.
Pymnts · 1m

Lowe's Takes Flight With Drone Delivery
The home improvement giant launches same-day drone delivery near Charlotte, joining Amazon and Walmart in the race to transform retail logistics.
Adweek · 1m

AI agents fail at complex commerce tasks
Alibaba tested 13 AI models on real business work and found even the best stumble on multi-step jobs.
Pymnts · 1m

Mastercard and Alchemy enable AI agents to shop
A new partnership lets artificial intelligence agents autonomously discover, compare, and buy products on behalf of users anywhere Mastercard is accepted.
Pymnts · 1m

Retail's AI revolution reshapes shopping and ads
Retailers are weaving AI, advertising, loyalty, and commerce into one connected experience.
Adweek · 1m

Kim Gravel's live selling empire
The QVC star is building a platform to make live shopping the next big thing in entertainment.
Adweek · 1m

Google preps retailers for AI-driven holiday shopping
New agentic tools help merchants track discovery and enable checkout as shoppers turn to AI for gift research.
Pymnts · 1m

Amazon's massive same-day delivery expansion plan
The company aims to build over 1,000 same-day hubs by 2031, reaching 80% of Prime members.
Pymnts · 1m

AI picks your shortlist before you ever click to buy
Artificial intelligence is reshaping retail by deciding which products consumers consider, not just which ones they buy.
Pymnts · 1m

AI reshapes how Brazilians discover and buy products
Brazilian shoppers now use AI tools in over half their purchases, but most merchants can't be found by these systems yet.
Pymnts · 1m

Missing digital wallets cost retailers 56 million sales
Nearly half of cart abandoners wanted to pay with a digital wallet, but the option wasn't there when they needed it.
Pymnts · 1m

Agentic commerce has a trust problem
Mastercard and PYMNTS say AI shopping agents will only scale if consumers and merchants feel as protected as they do online today.
Pymnts · 1m

Shopify says AI search lifts conversions 80%
Shopify's execs say shoppers who start in an LLM land on the product page 2.5x more often, and buy far more when they do.
Pymnts · 1m

Walmart wants to deliver your pizza too
Papa John's is coming to Walmart's app, and the real bet is not pizza but everything Walmart's delivery network could carry next.
Yahoo Finance · 1m

Torrid shut 177 stores. The math says it had to
A plus-size chain closed a fifth of its shops because its own shoppers already moved online.
Yahoo Finance · 2m

Retail media's AI land grab is here
Amazon sells ChatGPT ads, Walmart aims past retail media, and AI assistants start building your cart.
Adweek · 1m

Amazon makes Prime Video directly shoppable
Prime Video viewers can now browse and buy products from their favorite shows directly inside the Amazon app.
TechCrunch · 1m · 7 views