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E-commerce

Inside the battle for the future of Amazon

By Jason Del Rey

The psychological traps of online shopping, explained

By Emily Stewart

Amazon employees will be in layoff limbo into 2023

By Jason Del Rey

Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad

By Jason Del Rey

Some Amazon Prime customers say they don’t have two-day shipping anymore

By Jason Del Rey

Apple broke Facebook’s ad machine. Who’s going to fix it?

By Peter Kafka

No, the supply chain mess is not a war on Christmas

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why Etsy dropped $1.6 billion on Depop

By Rebecca Heilweil

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The death of the department store and the American middle class

The collapse of America’s middle class crushed department stores. Amazon and the pandemic are the final blows.

By Jason Del Rey

Did Amazon lie to Congress? Top antitrust lawmakers want to know.

By Jason Del Rey

Nike’s breakup with Amazon is a lose-lose situation for everyone — including you

By Jason Del Rey

Buying Ring surveillance cameras saves Amazon money on stolen packages

By Rani Molla

Amazon’s one-day shipping Prime offer is an attempt to suck you in for life

By Emily Stewart

A giant new investment will make StockX the first billion-dollar sneaker reseller

By Theodore Schleifer and Jason Del Rey

The erectile dysfunction pill company Hims will be worth $1 billion

By Theodore Schleifer

Amazon wants brands to advertise Alexa voice shopping — essentially for free

By Rani Molla

Resy is winning newer, cooler restaurants away from OpenTable

By Sayer Devlin

Brandless wants to create the next great consumer packaged goods brand — but it hasn’t built customer loyalty yet

By Rani Molla

Trump’s latest China threat could crush the $8 billion Amazon competitor Wish. Here’s its plan to fight back.

By Jason Del Rey

Michael Rubin’s ShopRunner plans to acquire the e-commerce startup Spring

By Jason Del Rey

‘We launched with a pretty mediocre product’ — how two direct-to-consumer startups iterated to success

By Rani Molla

Emily Weiss wants Glossier to own the online beauty conversation

By Johana Bhuiyan

Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya says he would consider going public — but won’t sell to an industry giant

By Rani Molla

Stores and Stories: How two successful consumer startups find their customers

By Peter Kafka

Amazon’s new small-business product ‘feels like a trap,’ says Shopify’s CEO

By Rani Molla

Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads — and they seem to be working

By Rani Molla

Target’s CEO says the consumer environment is ‘perhaps the strongest’ in his career — and he’s not alone

By Rani Molla

A fifth of professional Amazon merchants sell more than $1 million a year — double the share from last year

By Rani Molla and Jason Del Rey

Why Walmart bought Flipkart — in five charts

By Rani Molla and Jason Del Rey

Walmart has confirmed it is buying a majority stake in India’s Flipkart for $16 billion

By Jason Del Rey

Michael Zeisser has left as Alibaba’s top U.S. dealmaker

By Kara Swisher and Theodore Schleifer

Uber Eats is the fastest-growing meal delivery service in the U.S.

By Rani Molla

E-commerce companies don’t pay local sales taxes. They need to get serious about fixing that.

By Alex Paladino

HelloFresh is now bigger than Blue Apron in the U.S.

By Rani Molla

HelloFresh’s sales are growing five times faster than Blue Apron’s

By Rani Molla

Amazon is bringing free Whole Foods delivery to Prime members in San Francisco and Atlanta

By Jason Del Rey

Amazon’s Ring buy gives it the same number of acquisitions this year as Apple or Google

By Rani Molla

Amazon, Walmart and Target are squeezing traditional grocery chains on price

By Jason Del Rey and Rani Molla

Smartphone users are spending more money each time they visit a website

By Rani Molla

Amazon is now worth more than 2.5 Walmarts

By Rani Molla