Luxury Clothing and Fashion Business
Fast Fashion and global competition in the Clothing Business
Mobile shopping - Clothing, Fashion e-commerce
Etsy and shopping online, e-commerce
Starbucks Coffee - business, marketing
A collection of articles about Bicycles - industry, sales, retail business
articles looking at the Retail business
Technology solutions for SMBs and Retail business
International - Home Delivery companies- Transportation, Frieght, Logistics and Technology
Social Shopping, Live Online video, E-commerce startups
Clothing and Fashion Business - online marketplaces, platforms, e-commerce
Fast Fashion, the Environment, and the Clothing Business
eBay and e-commerce
Bookstores - New and used book sellers - Competing with Amazon
Facebook Shops - retail business
Google Shopping
Target - retail business - Competing vs. Amazon, Walmart
Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many foo... (2024)
Fanjoy is one of the top influencer merchandise companies, creating products for digital stars like David Dobrik, Tana Mongeau, and Adelaine Morin. (2024)
As the bookstore chain mounts a comeback, it’s breaking a cardinal rule of corporate branding and store design: consistency. (2023)
Amazon’s new Buy With Prime announced the arrival of Amazon Logistics as a Service, and is a big red flag for Shopify. (2022)
Inventa is a B2B marketplace that connects brands and independent retailers in Brazil, helping a brand reach new customers and the independent reta... (2022)
With demand for bikes and bike parts high, Pacific Northwest Components quit Amazon in order to better supply independent shops and help customers ... (2021)
Snap has acquired Vertebrae, an AR shopping company that helps brands turn their goods into 3D assets, which could help Snapchat become an augmente... (2021)
A visual explainer of the numbers behind America’s ubiquitous bargain-basement chains. (2021)
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. There are 32 million small businesses and over 400,000 independently owned restaurants in the Un... (2021)
A few months later, as they expanded into categories like pins and Pokémon cards, the company started to build out a live shopping platform — think... (2021)
Vestiaire Collective announced a new funding round. The company has raised $216 million, or €178 million — it has reached a valuation above $1 bill... (2021)
As tenants stop paying and shrink their offices, commercial real estate is cratering. (2020)
Want to lift retail takings? Get rid of cars. That's the conclusion from a new report from Transport for London. (2020)
Shopify’s Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) for the second quarter was $30.1 billion compared to eBay’s $27.1 billion. For the first time, Shopify pro... (2020)
Rite Aid used facial recognition in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods. The systems included one from a firm with links to China and its... (2020)
The sector faces a shake-up Investors have loaded up on commercial property. Now they face a reckoning... (2020)
The genius of Amazon - The pandemic has shown that Amazon is essential—but vulnerable Jeff Bezos's vision of a world shopping online is coming t... (2020)
Facebook Shops are good for Shopify merchants, but bad for Shopify; the answer is to push more into the real world. (2020)
Google Shopping is changing its model, suggesting Google is joining the Anti-Amazon Alliance; 3rd-party merchants should do the same. (2020)
Brands have long been able to bid for the premier slot at the top left of Amazon’s listings, but during the pandemic the online retailer has begun ... (2020)
So much for Walmart’s big and expensive effort to take on Amazon with a digitally-native brand. Amid the coronavirus crisis and its impact on the r... (2020)
Target, which already owns on-demand delivery service Shipt, is in the process of acquiring technology assets from same-day delivery service Deliv.... (2020)
In hindsight, it’s easy to see why Tropicana’s 2009 rebrand failed. Poor design choices, a messy, vague, esoteric theme, and — as always with these... (2020)
Instacart’s aggressive hiring spree is continuing due to COVID-19 shelter in place orders. Today, the company announced it is adding 250,000 more s... (2020)
NBCUniversal is introducing a new way to incorporate commerce into the viewing and reading experience, which it calls NBCUniversal Checkout. The ne... (2020)
There’s a reason the ingredient is still missing from stores. Brands like Fleischmann’s are ramping up production and hiring more staff—but the ... (2020)
It’s no small task. In eggs alone, Three Fold bought 120 cases from its usual provider, Lake Meadow Naturals in Ocoee, Fla. — which amounts to more... (2020)
Even as most grocery stores, from locals like Sedano’s and Milam’s to Fresh Market and Whole Foods, now offer scheduled pickups or delivery through... (2020)
Times are exceptionally hard, especially for local restaurants, which were always in a precarious business even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. B... (2020)
Some Americans, fearing food shortages from COVID-19, have cleaned out supermarket shelves. Yet there's too much food in some places. Farmers are d... (2020)
Shein says it’s able to make affordable apparel by monitoring user behavior to predict customer demand and producing items in small quantities. The... (2023)
Amazon is the king of fast delivery – it pioneered the free two-day shipping model customers have come to expect. As competitors like Walmart and T... (2023)
Liquid Death founder and CEO Mike Cessario spent years figuring out how to make water cool. Now his brand is valued at $700 million. After attendin... (2023)
When Dani Reiss took the reins as CEO of Canada Goose at age 27, he was running a company that brought in $2.2 million a year in revenue. Today, th... (2023)
Aldi’s ‘no-frills’ strategy has helped make it one of the cheapest and the fastest growing grocery stores in the U.S. For the past decade, it’s bee... (2023)
Sweetgreen’s fast-casual $15 salads have a cult following. But even as the salad chain has sold millions of these bowls to its customers, net profi... (2023)
Outfitted with cameras and sensors, autonomous inventory robots can verify price signs and look for out-of-stock items. Inventory is one of the big... (2023)
Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same (2022)
Chick-fil-A has built its rapid growth on the popularity of its chicken sandwich. But its unconventional approach to business has helped make it th... (2022)
Starbucks, a $124.4 billion company, trails only McDonald’s as the largest restaurant chain by market capitalization. In this video, WSJ’s Heather ... (2022)
John Oliver discusses how Coronavirus is impacting the US workforce, from mass unemployment to the problems faced by essential workers. Connect wit... (2020)
In October 2018, Kmart's parent company, Sears Holdings, filed for bankruptcy. Kmart first filed for bankruptcy in 2002, making this its second tim... (2018)
In his now annual state-of-innovation talk at the a16z Summit in November 2018, Andreessen Horowitz’ Benedict Evans walks through where we are now ... (2018)
August 1st, 2018, 3:57 AM EDT Tina Sharkey, Brandless Inc.'s chief executive officer, discusses the company's business strategy with Bloomberg's... (2018)
Hershey knows how to get you to make impulse purchases, if you're shopping at a store. But as people shift to online shopping, Hershey is trying to... (2018)
The mall was America’s third place — for better or for worse. Our lives are lived in 1 of 3 places, the home, ... (2018)
When did Black Friday start, and why do we dislike it so much? Good Mythical Morning Episode 209! SUBSCRIBE for daily episodes: http://bit.ly/subrl... (2017)
Shopify's Tobi Lütke knows the secret to massive scale. It's be a platform. Build a virtuous cycle and you’ll emerge the biggest winner of all. (2020)
Container ships, supply chains, and retail This podcast rerun -- first recorded over two and a half years ago, now being rerun as one of our eve... (2017)
Allbirds chief executive Joey Zwillinger on how Amazon copied his company's footwear. Amazon is known for watching what retail products gain tra... (2019)
with Ryan Caldbeck, Jeff Jordan, and Sonal Chokshi (2019)
First, Jeff Glueck, CEO of Foursquare, talks with Jason about splitting the product into two separate apps, bridging the digital & the physical, an... (2018)