Retail
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 ...
Ecommerce Fraud Now Costs Retailers $5 For Every $1 Stolen
A stolen dollar does not cost merchants one dollar anymore. It costs them chargebacks, investigations, manual reviews, customer service time, ...
Europe’s Biggest Retailers Are Asking the EU to Please Not Call Their AI Sofa Photos “Deepfakes”
The European Union AI Act has a deepfake problem, and it has nothing to do with politicians’ faces or forged ...
This Falmouth Start-Up Built a £760k Marketplace From a Problem Every Card Collector Knows
There is a specific kind of frustration familiar to anyone who has bought or sold trading cards online. You list ...
