Retailers struggle with macroeconomic challenges: Rising interest rates, a tight labor market, and slowing discretionary spending drove Revlon and Enjoy to file for bankruptcy, and StockX to lay off staff.
Online beauty sales are booming: Thanks to evolving consumer behavior and a proliferation of distribution channels, cosmetics and beauty is set to become one of the fastest-growing ecommerce categories of 2022.
On today's episode, we discuss what to expect from Prime Day 2022, Instagram's projected growth, what Americans watch on TV, the latest social commerce moves, movie theater ads 2.0, an unpopular opinion about comparing TV and digital video, how much time we spend doing meaningless work tasks, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Blake Droesch and Paul Verna and senior director of Briefings Stephanie Taglianetti.
Retailers experiment with the role of the store: Gap, Jonathan Adler, and others are testing new retail concepts and tech to determine the best way to leverage their physical presences.
Brands are bullish on ecommerce: More than half of companies are ramping up investment for ecommerce initiatives, per a survey by Yottaa.
Pinterest’s co-founder & CEO is departing: Ben Silbermann’s departure and Bill Ready’s arrival as chief signals the platform’s commerce ambitions.
Adyen helped Oracle launch a new point-of-sale system that lets restaurants accept and better manage contactless payments.
Consumers shift their spending from goods to services: US household spending rose at its slowest pace this year in May as inflation dragged on people’s purchasing power.
Amazon looks for another way to monetize its physical stores: The retailer’s new data tracking service for its physical grocery stores mines data on shoppers' behaviors.
On today's episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss how shoppers and retailers use Google and why the company's previous investments in the ecommerce space haven't worked out so well. Then for "Pop-Up Rankings," we rank the top three winning Google shopping features and discuss one feature we expect to fizzle out. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analysts Sky Canaves and Yory Wurmser.
Direct integration into PayPal’s platform improves interoperability while providing financing. Here’s how it helps PayPal compete with banks.
The last three months of the year used to be a make-or-break period for retailers, but consumers in Latin America are now spreading out their digital purchases over the entire year.
Bed Bath & Beyond’s early-pandemic inventory revamp had unforeseen consequences: The decision to reduce its in-store SKU count and launch private-label brands left the retailer vulnerable to supply chain disruptions.