Retail
Circle K Has 200 Million Monthly Impressions and No Ecommerce Website
Every retail media network story this month has followed the same template: retailer has first-party data, retailer builds advertising product ...
China’s Online Shopping Festivals are Running Out of Growth
There is a pattern in how economic weakness shows up in ecommerce data before it shows up in headline retail ...
New Jersey Just Made It Illegal to Charge You More Because an Algorithm Decided You Would Pay It
Surveillance pricing has been one of those practices that everyone in ecommerce knew was happening and nobody could quite prove ...
India Relaxes Ecommerce Rules That Were Worrying Local Retailers
In an uncharacteristic move for the tightly controlled ecommerce industry in India, the country’s government eased and relaxed foreign investment ...
AI Killed Half of Publishers’ Search Traffic. The Pivot They Keep Ignoring Is Ecommerce.
AI-generated search summaries and chat are reducing the number of visitors to publishers’ websites. Reports from the Pew Research Center, ...
Nearly Half of All Ecommerce Traffic Is Now AI Bots
48% of all ecommerce traffic across Akamai’s global network is now driven by AI bots. Not human shoppers browsing product ...
German Ecommerce Grew 4.3% in the First Half of 2026. Asian Platforms Grew 20%.
Germany’s ecommerce market had a good first half of 2026. Online retail turnover grew 4.3% compared to the first half ...
Should June’s Mediocre Retail Sales Growth Worry Merchants?
While many recent months for U.S. retail sales have met or exceeded expectations, June fell short, even with Amazon’s massive ...
Retailers are Increasingly Adopting Print-on-Demand Services
Succeeding in many modern retail environments requires ecommerce sellers to deliver items fast, minimize inventory risk, and offer a wide ...
Someone Let AI Touch Their Ecommerce Database Without Telling the Dev Team. It Did Not Go Well.
It started with a client who wanted to move quickly. They used AI to write code, skipped the dev team ...
