Supply Chain
Seller reactions to TikTok Shop changing stance on shipping and fulfillment
TikTok Shop rolled back its plan to control fulfillment for US merchants due to potential loss of business.
Vidhi is a reporter for Retail Brew covering e-commerce and retail media. She was previously a senior reporter at Digiday's Modern Retail. Her work has also been published in TheStreet, Forbes, Nikkei Asia and TheCity. Vidhi has a master's degree in business and economics journalism from Columbia Journalism School.
E-Commerce
Shopify’s February data points to signature flowers and sweet treats
Shopify orders swung wildly from tulips and roses to herbicides and sprinklers.
Retail Media
Why is Pinterest losing advertiser interest?
Recently, Pinterest announced layoffs and now is blaming tariffs for a weak performance.
E-Commerce
Shopify says AI shopping will ‘not bypass’ its checkout
Shopify wants to make the agentic commerce experience feel like a merchant’s online store.
E-Commerce
Does Saks pulling out of Amazon’s marketplace reflect a deeper mismatch with luxury brands?
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Retail Media
Target drops ads within ChatGPT
The big box retailer said traffic from ChatGPT to Target has grown 40% on average each month.
Marketing
What will ads in an agent assisted shopping world look like?
In agent-to-agent shopping, consumers may never see the ad.
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E-Commerce
Google makes Etsy and Wayfair items shoppable within agentic AI search
Google said UCP’s potential will lay the foundation for a future where all commercial experiences can be seamless and agentic.
E-Commerce
Amazon ups the ante with $200 billion investment in AI
Amazon’s CEO said AI presents “an extraordinarily unusual opportunity to forever change the size of AWS and Amazon.com.”
E-Commerce
Saks pulls out of Amazon’s online store and cites lack of meaningful brand participation
Amazon’s quest to crack the luxury market just hit a snag.