Things are looking up for Walmart: The retailer made headway on its inventory glut and gained grocery share in Q3, but discretionary categories struggled.
Are streaming services inflation-proof? Streaming revenues grew in Q3 despite concerns that inflation and fatigue would lead to subscription cancellations.
With Black Friday just a week and a half away, the holiday shopping season is upon us. And for every perfect gift that consumers cross off their lists, there’s bound to be one or two that miss the mark. Retailers are already preparing for the inevitable pile up of returns, which is good because those costs can swell quickly.
Retail sales rose 1.3% in October: That suggests retailers were successful in pulling the holidays forward. However, Target’s Q3 earnings show what consumers are buying is changing.
Only 13% of US adults have used augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) while shopping. Though the overwhelming majority have not, 38% are at least somewhat interested in trying the tech.
It rolled out the solution in the UK and in select Nordic countries, which can help boost sales volume, affiliate revenues, and brand engagement.
TikTok tests in-app ecommerce in the US: The platform hopes its shopping initiatives will offset lower-than-expected ad revenues, and help it gain ground against Meta.
Amazon is the latest Big Tech company to plan layoffs: The retailer is expected to shed about 10,000 jobs across its devices, retail, and human resources divisions as it prepares for a difficult holiday season.
The retail landscape in China looks grim: The country’s economy faces significant challenges as retail sales unexpectedly contracted in October and Alibaba’s Singles Day sales plateaued.
Third railroad union rejects Biden-brokered labor deal: The challenges involved in ratifying the agreement are just one of many factors that could derail the still-recovering supply chain.
On today's very special holiday episode, host Sara Lebow tees up a conversation between our principal analyst Andrew Lipsman and Dan Hess, global chief product officer of The NPD Group, to unearth the long-lost history of Cyber Monday. Before it became an industrywide phenomenon in 2005, Dan and his team at Comscore were among the first to "discover" the spike in online shopping that happened the Monday after Thanksgiving—as far back as 2002. Find out what caused this phenomenon to take place, why there was so much misinformation about Cyber Monday in the early days, and what the day was originally called.
YouTube dives deeper into social commerce: Amid falling ad revenues, YouTube is adding shopping features to Shorts.
Apple and Amazon deal faces a new lawsuit: The companies are headed to court to determine if their 2019 deal for Apple’s storefront on Amazon Marketplace reduced competition from independent Apple resellers.