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Amazon’s AI Shopping Assistant Can Now Buy Things for You, Track Prices Across a Year, and Notify You Before You Even Know You Want Something.
Alexa for Shopping launched on May 13, 2026, replacing Rufus as the primary AI interface inside the Amazon.com search bar ...
Brazil Abolished Its Chinese Platform Import Tax in May. The Searches Spiked 492%. The Tax Might Come Back on September 22.
On July 1, 2026, the EU abolished the €150 duty-free threshold on small parcels and introduced a €3 per-category fee ...
Amazon Told Sellers They’d Pay One Cent More Than the Second Bidder. Allegedly It Charged Them Their Own Bid 80% of the Time.
The standard pitch for Amazon’s advertising auction system is a second-price auction: you bid whatever you think the click is ...
TikTok Wants to Run Your Shop for $10,000 Plus 20% of Revenue. Here Is What That Actually Costs.
TikTok Shop is generating real commercial outcomes for a meaningful range of sellers in 2026. We’ve covered the Poppy Rose ...
France Just Became the First Country in the World to Financially Penalise Fast Fashion. The Bill Starts at 25 Cents. It Rises to €19.50.
France’s Economy Minister Serge Papin said it plainly on Friday: “From September 1, ultra-fast fashion will pay the true price ...
A Mom Sold $40,000 in Shirts on TikTok in One Night. She Planned It Like a Product Launch.
The question for anyone building a commerce business in 2026 is no longer whether TikTok livestream selling works. TikTok’s own ...
This Week Showed What Brand Cancellation Actually Costs
A Modern Retail podcast with crisis PR consultant Sam Gauchier argues that silence is no longer a defensive strategy for ...
Every Major Retailer Just Reported the Same Thing: Customers Are Shopping, But Only for Deals.
The biggest theme in retail this earnings season was trade-offs: between price and profit, promotions and growth, and getting customers ...
Google Just Turned YouTube Ads Into a Conversation Starter
Demand Gen launched in 2023 as Google’s answer to the upper-funnel social advertising that brands were directing toward Meta and ...
SSG.com Is Splitting in Two. South Korea’s Grocery-vs-Fashion Ecommerce Debate Just Got a Corporate Answer.
When SSG.com was created in 2019 by merging E-Mart Mall and Shinsegae Mall under a single corporate entity, the strategic ...
