Retail

Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit. Retailers satisfy demand identified through a supply chain.

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Atlanta Fed: Small Firms Less Likely to Pass Through Cost Increases
Atlanta Fed: Small Firms Less Likely to Pass Through Cost Increases
April 23, 2025  |  SMBs

Businesses said in April that they expect their unit costs to increase by 2.8% over the next year, a figure that is 0.3 percentage points...

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Mobile Shopping Surge in Brazil Spans Generations, Not Just Gen Z
Mobile Shopping Surge in Brazil Spans Generations, Not Just Gen Z
April 23, 2025  |  Shopping

Shoppers in Brazil are increasingly mobile-first: 61% made their most recent retail purchase using a mobile device. Moreover, the typical Brazilian consumer window shops from...

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Sand, Soccer and Smartphones: Why Brazil Leads the Mobile Shopping Revolution
Sand, Soccer and Smartphones: Why Brazil Leads the Mobile Shopping Revolution
April 21, 2025  |  Mobile Commerce

Sandy beaches and soccer aren’t Brazil’s only calling cards. The South American nation is far ahead of some more developed countries in mobile commerce, with...

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Shopify to Face Data Privacy Class Action After Court Ruling
Shopify to Face Data Privacy Class Action After Court Ruling
April 21, 2025  |  eCommerce

Shopify is facing a data privacy class action lawsuit in the U.S. The proposed class action had been dismissed by a lower court judge and...

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Investors Expect Secondhand Stores to Profit as Tariffs Challenge Retailers
Investors Expect Secondhand Stores to Profit as Tariffs Challenge Retailers
April 21, 2025  |  Retail

Investors reportedly expect new U.S. tariffs to be good for sellers of secondhand goods. In the time since the White House announced tariffs on April...

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Reports: Trump Talks Tariffs With Walmart, Target and Others in White House Meeting
Reports: Trump Talks Tariffs With Walmart, Target and Others in White House Meeting
April 21, 2025  |  Retail

President Donald Trump will reportedly meet with major retailers at the White House Monday (April 21) to discuss tariffs. Bloomberg and Reuters reported on the...

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Inside Amazon and Walmart’s Billion-Dollar Race to Win the Last Mile
Inside Amazon and Walmart’s Billion-Dollar Race to Win the Last Mile
April 18, 2025  |  Retail

In environments like today’s, reactive operations might as well be useless ones. By the time they take effect, it is often already too late. As the...

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Retailers ‘Uncharacteristically Blunt’ in Telling Customers Tariffs Will Raise Prices
Retailers ‘Uncharacteristically Blunt’ in Telling Customers Tariffs Will Raise Prices
April 17, 2025  |  Retail

Some retailers are reportedly being “uncharacteristically blunt” in sharing with customers the impact new U.S. tariffs are having on the prices of their products. This...

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Deck Raises $12 Million for Infrastructure That Accesses User-Permissioned Data
Deck Raises $12 Million for Infrastructure That Accesses User-Permissioned Data
April 16, 2025  |  Investments

Deck raised $12 million in a Series A funding round to support its developer infrastructure for accessing any user-permissioned data. “Going from seed to Series...

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