They’re Not Paying for the Receipt
Your grocery receipt holds secrets: every item, brand, quantity and price you paid that day. An online retailer would love to know that. In fact Joybuy – the UK branch of Chinese …
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The Store Is Dead. Long Live the Store.
For 25 years e-commerce and brick-and-mortar were portrayed as mortal enemies. Countless headlines declared the “death of retail” imagining a future where warehouses and webs…
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The Sale That Ate Next Month
Every summer, retailers celebrate the same kind of headline: billions spent in a handful of days, record order counts, unprecedented traffic, and discounts that sent consumers rac…
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Amazon built the wall. AI found the door.
On August 4 2026 a federal appeals court dealt a setback to Amazon’s bid to block AI shopping bots from its site. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco vacated …
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The Bill Finally Arrived
For years online shopping felt almost magical. Need a new hoodie? Six dollars. A summer dress? Eight. A phone case, kitchen gadgets, trainers, even furniture - all shipped halfway…
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Creators Didn't Kill Retail. They Killed Search.
If you want to understand where online shopping is heading stop asking whether YouTube is turning into Amazon. That is the wrong comparison. The better question is whether YouTube…
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The Buy Box Was Never Yours
Amazon just changed one of the most important rules in marketplace commerce and it did it in the most Amazon way possible: quietly, inside Seller Central, with language calm enoug…
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Congratulations. You've Been Replaced by Yourself.
If you ask most retail executives whether they want “an AI version of every customer” the answer is almost always yes - right up until the next question arrives: what does that ac…
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The €3 Fee That Broke Amazon's Cheapest Store
Amazon recently unveiled Haul, a new deep-discount store on its platform aimed squarely at the same bargain-hungry shoppers who flock to Chinese apps like Temu and Shein. Haul’s p…
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Every Click Was an Experiment
For a long time Prime Day was easy to understand. Amazon discounted thousands of products. People bought things they had been waiting to replace for months. Tech websites publishe…
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