Amid the pandemic in 2020, U.S.-based retailers said they would close more than 10,700 stores, some of the starkest evidence of COVID-19’s impact on the...
Kohl’s and Best Buy are setting up for a self-service holiday shopping season. Plus, the direct-to-consumer approach is overhauling the mall-based ear-piercing market, and retail...
For years, the ear-piercing experience was sequestered mainly to two areas: a doctor’s office, with the piercing done by a pediatrician; or a mall-based retailer,...
A Pinterest acquisition would add social commerce to PayPal’s super app. Plus, demand for Crocs is significantly higher than its supply because of pandemic-related shutdowns,...
During the early months of the pandemic, direct-to-consumer (D2C) businesses saw their delivery-only model grow in popularity, as contagion concerns kept consumers out of brick-and-mortar...
What do you do when the “physical” becomes impossible? Well, that was the challenge facing literally every business in the world when the pandemic hit...
The ultimate value proposition for commerce, in the midst of the pandemic, is getting what you want, when you want it. The goods and services...
At the beginning of 2021, optimistic prognosticators said the U.S. would be out of the pandemic’s depths by the fall, but with vaccination rates slowed...
As businesses continue to struggle against supply chain and labor shortages, the growth of PepsiCo’s food and beverage categories has outpaced the market as a...