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Amazon Prime Days are upon us, and shoppers should remember that a lot of fake goods are sold by the company's Marketplace sellers and that can be both costly and dangerous.
Etsy aims to compete with Amazon, eBay and other merchants with more free shipping initiatives, and it just might help its gross merchandise sales numbers.
Analysts are chasing Shopify price targets higher and higher. This mega-growth stock is now trading at close to 600 times expected earnings and almost 25 times sales, but Wall Street is willing to...
Grocery Outlet shares entered the market with a bang. The firm priced its shares at $22 apiece, which was above the expected price range of $17 to $19, although shares actually entered the market at...
May's reading on retail sales did manage to post a 0.5% seasonally adjusted gain. That's the good news.
Retail sales are often volatile on a monthly reporting basis, and the markets are getting to deal with a fresh round of negative news when it comes to the consumer spending habits of Americans.
Used-car seller CarMax reported better than expected earnings Friday morning, but revenues were a bit light. Investors didn't seem to mind.
The largest U.S. seller of cars and other light vehicles is not a car dealership, but a membership club that sells everything from soup to nuts.
McDonald's just bought a tech company that can change store menus based on what customers might add to menu items they have already selected or what people are more likely to order in the morning or...
The latest survey of auto dealers indicates that they have cheered up a bit about their prospects since the fourth quarter of last year, but their overall outlook remains slightly negative and...
How Amazon might be broken up is easy to imagine and it already operates in three discrete enterprises that do not need to be together to prosper.
Home Depot has announced plans to hire 80,000 new workers in full-time, part-time, and seasonal as it prepares for the annual burst of spring home improvement shopping.
Customer satisfaction with U.S. retailers continued sliding in 2018. U.S. consumers complained most about customer service but gave high scores to company websites and mobile apps.
Analysts at Loup Ventures predicted that Amazon would acquire Target during 2018. They were wrong. Here they explain why and why such a tie-up still makes sense.
The competition between Amazon and Walmart is only likely to heat up as the online giant goes after physical space while the brick-and-mortar behemoth continues expanding online. Loup Ventures weighs...