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Katishi Maake

Last year, Instacart slashed its valuation 38% to $24 billion, down from a pandemic-high of $39 billion. 

Instacart, Klarna lead thin IPO market heading into the New Year

Andrew Adam Newman

With PorchPals, consumers pay a monthly fee that covers deliveries from all retailers and carriers. 

A startup backed by the NFL’s Adoree’ Jackson has a new take on package-theft insurance.

Bad news: Many retailers can’t match Amazon’s shipping speed. Good news: Many shoppers don’t care.

Two-day shipping is a solution for a problem that probably doesn’t exist

Delivery

Consumers also concerned higher free-shipping thresholds: survey.

More than half of shoppers unlikely to return to a retailer that misses promised delivery date

Vidhi Choudhary

Walmart’s e-commerce business is getting closer to becoming profitable.

Why Walmart’s e-commerce business is growing so fast

For same-day deliveries, Ship Essential sorts packages on its delivery truck and hands them off on a curb to last-mile drivers. 

We went for a ride-along to follow the slippers we ordered from the warehouse to our doorstep

Erin Cabrey

Powered by Gopuff platform allows 15-minute delivery from brands’ own online stores.  

Gopuff debuts DTC offering for its CPG brands

UPS and FedEx’s delivery surcharges will affect 82 zip codes. 

This week in retail: UPS and FedEx surcharges, Publix openings, and the Revolve Festival

The company now delivers from more than 150,000 non-restaurant retailers in North America.

DoorDash continues expansion beyond restaurant delivery with Sally Beauty and MAC Cosmetics

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How to come out on top of retail’s shifting tides.

Rewards-as-a-Service to the rescue

“The consumer needs choice this holiday more than ever,” Michelle Crossan-Matos told Retail Brew. 

Ulta Beauty’s CMO shares how the beauty retailer is approaching the holiday season

From left, Nicole Azores, manager of government and public affairs at Google; Julian Chokkattu, senior reviews editor at Wired; Thibaud Hug de Larauze, CEO at Back Market; and Corinne Iozzio, editor-in-chief of one5c, speaking at Climate Week in New York. Andrew Adam Newman


During Climate Week, a push for more devices to be repairable. 

Why electronics resellers and environmentalists support right-to-repair laws

Walmart is expanding its channels, platforms and touchpoints for e-commerce with generative AI.