Retail & Ecommerce

Reddit looks to get its engaged audiences on advertisers’ radar: Insights director says CES is opportunity to showcase platform’s value.

BJ’s Wholesale Club is the latest retailer to launch a media network: At the same time, Instacart is adding more promotional capabilities to help drive sales among cost-conscious shoppers.

Ulta store traffic exceeded pre-pandemic levels in Q3: The milestone comes as the beauty retailer makes extensive changes to store layouts and reported strong quarterly sales growth.

If Cyber Five trends hint at what to expect from the rest of the holiday season, expect buy now, pay later (BNPL) to be a big hit.

TikTok is Gen Z’s No. 2 social commerce destination and is almost as popular as Facebook among millennial social buyers, per Klarna.

The retail landscape in Europe looks bleak: Retail sales in Europe fell at the highest rate since July 2021. That’s a sharp contrast to the US, where consumers keep spending.

Ultrafast delivery app downloads exploded worldwide during the pandemic. The top 10 apps in this space were downloaded 23.1 million times collectively in Q1 2022, according to Apptopia. Getir leads by a wide margin, ahead of rivals like Gopuff and Gorillas.

On today's episode, we discuss a mixture of new store formats, whether there are too many ads on Amazon, how consumers keep spending in the face of inflation, the battle for the TV ratings crown, whether you can guarantee delivery, the number of books that have ever been published, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Suzy Davidkhanian, Blake Droesch, and Paul Verna.

Search proves its worth on Black Friday: Search ad spending grew steadily and drove strong results during the event despite a year of ad troubles.

Weixin users can receive remittances from Tencent’s global partners directly to their wallets.

Now that the dust has settled from this year’s record-breaking Cyber Five (the five days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday), it’s time to see how the industry’s advertising efforts shook out, according to new research from Tinuiti.

Not all discount retailers are benefiting from economic uncertainty: Big Lots’ sales fell 9.8% in Q3, Five Below’s earnings dipped 32%, and Dollar General missed expectations.

Retailers reassess supply chains as consumer demand softens: As lead times shorten, companies have to decide whether it’s worth returning to a “just-in-time” strategy to avoid inventory pileups.