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Oct 27, 2026
Petco paid 8.25% to get through. Medallia’s lenders took the company.
Oct 26, 2026
Walmart’s new $120 bundle comes with a warehouse club
Oct 23, 2026
If AI agents do the browsing, the storefront matters less and the checkout button matters more. Shopify just bought the domain that puts it at that step
Oct 21, 2026
If your commerce platform shows 3% conversion, you're probably not counting the orders that skipped checkout entirely
Oct 20, 2026
Customs has refunded $100B in IEEPA tariffs. About $30B more is sitting there, and the court says most of it belongs to small importers who never filed
Oct 19, 2026
TIME put it on the cover. Apple will bury the sales in one revenue line. That's the tell
Oct 16, 2026
Starbucks sales rose 7.9% last quarter. Revenue fell 1%. Both numbers are correct, and the gap between them explains a lot about where Brian Niccol’s turnaround stands.
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Oct 15, 2026
Two hundred eCommerce and retail leaders. New Orleans wedding reception. The night before NRF
Oct 14, 2026
The mattress industry is down 12–15% this year. Naturepedic says it grew nearly 68% in July. Here's what they're doing differently
Oct 13, 2026
Forty times EBITDA is a bold number. The deal only works if $300M in cost savings shows up — and most promised savings don't
Oct 9, 2026
Costco says its delivery orders arrive in under an hour — on its own numbers. That's the part worth questioning
Oct 7, 2026
His wife's wedding outfit stays off limits, and most retail sits somewhere in between
Oct 6, 2026
C.H. Robinson is paying $5.8B for a company earning $137M a year. The bet isn't on RXO — it's on Robinson's own AI cost machine being good enough to justify the price
Oct 5, 2026
Amazon now runs your Walmart and Shopify orders inside Seller Central — for free, with a catch
Oct 2, 2026
Amazon is blocking every AI shopping agent it can, and I don't think it's about security
Sep 30, 2026
Ask three teams at most retailers for gross margin and you'll get three numbers. An AI agent will pick one and sound sure about it.
Sep 29, 2026
Join us for Agentic Island: A 2-Hour Virtual Summit on October 29, 2026, hosted by Rick Watson and featuring leading agencies and brands.
Sep 28, 2026
Seller Central now connects eBay, Shopify, TikTok, and Walmart accounts for free. The data terms fit in a footnote.
Sep 25, 2026
Amazon blocked Meta's shopping agent on Sunday, then spent the week pitching retailers on agentic payments at its booth
Sep 22, 2026
Amazon just told Meta its shopping agent can't buy on Amazon.com. Amazon's own Buy for Me agent does the same thing to other stores
Sep 21, 2026
Target just handed its ad business to someone who spent 16 years selling hotel rooms. That's not a random hire — it's a signal about what Fiddelke thinks Roundel actually is.
Sep 18, 2026
The FTC says it cost sellers $20B. Amazon says they got a better deal.
Sep 16, 2026
Nobody gave me a number for agentic AI spend. I got three lessons instead
Sep 15, 2026
Shopify made a five-year bet on React Native in 2020. It reversed that bet in twelve weeks — and coding agents are why every mobile team should be watching
Sep 14, 2026
Most of the coverage of the Costco Next shutdown says members lost their return protection when the storefronts went dark in late August. They never had it.
