shopping

Sam’s Club customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now walk out of the store without having their purchases double-checked.

Sam’s Club’s AI-powered exit tech reaches 20% of stores

eBay on Tuesday launched a new generative AI-powered feature to appeal to fashion enthusiasts: a “shop the look” section within its iOS mobile app that will suggest a carousel of…

eBay adds an AI-powered ‘shop the look’ feature to its iOS app

A new luxury goods e-commerce startup dubbed Long Story Short has a provocative concept: it’s $1,000 per month to join for the privilege of shopping its curated collection. Shocking as…

Fancy founder returns with $1,000-per-month luxury shopping startup, Long Story Short

Mastercard is launching a new generative AI shopping tool called “Shopping Muse” that is designed to help users get personalized product recommendations. The tool is powered by Dynamic Yield, a…

Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI-powered shopping assistant

Meta may have abandoned its efforts around live shopping on Facebook and Instagram, but the social networking company still believes in its apps’ potential as a shopping platform. That leads…

Meta and Amazon team up on new in-app shopping feature on Facebook & Instagram

Google sees augmented reality (AR) as a new, potentially quite effective advertising medium. Today, the search giant announced the launch of AR Beauty ads, a new smartphone ad type that…

Google launches AR beauty ads for lip and eye products

Only weeks after TikTok Shop’s entry into the U.S. market, YouTube today is making it easier for consumers to shop products presented by its own creator community. The company is…

YouTube’s latest features aim to help creators make more money from shoppable videos

New York-based peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace Pickle, which lets users earn passive income from their closets, is readying an expansion with the close of an $8 million seed round. The…

Peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace Pickle picks up $8 million

As Elon Musk’s X expands its efforts to become an “everything app,” the company formerly known as Twitter announced today it will run a livestream shopping event with media icon…

Elon Musk’s X to test livestream shopping in partnership with Paris Hilton

Amazon’s video streaming service Prime Video is dabbling with becoming an e-commerce shopping destination. The retailer announced today it’s launching a virtual shopping experience tied initially to one of its…

Amazon brings e-commerce to Prime Video with a merch shop, starting with ‘Gen V’

Amazon today introduced a new version of its Just Walk Out retail technology that allows customers to skip the cashier lines when they make a purchase by having their payment…

Amazon’s new Just Walk Out cashierless checkout system uses RFID tags to track apparel purchases

A year ago, Pinterest’s then brand-new collage-making app Shuffles was going viral on TikTok as Gen Z users sought out invites in order to create their own inspirational image boards.…

Pinterest’s Gen Z-focused Shuffles app has now inspired a new Pinterest feature

After months of testing, TikTok has finally launched its e-commerce product, TikTok Shop, in the U.S. — where it has more than 150 million users. As part of the rollout,…

TikTok Shop officially launches in the US

Amazon today introduced a new feature that will allow consumers to be better informed about potential product safety alerts and recalls. Now, instead of having to seek out product recall…

Amazon will now warn consumers of recalls and product safety alerts related to their orders

Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar. While a lot of the…

Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and Edge

Amazon announced today that it will host the annual Prime Day shopping event on July 11-12. The company typically offers a lot of discounts to customers to boost sales numbers…

Amazon will hold its Prime Day 2023 shopping event on July 11-12

India-based startup Flash wants to reduce the spam you get by providing an email ID that you can use for all e-commerce needs, and it will even reward you to…

Ex-Flipkart exec’s Flash app wants to be an inbox for your e-commerce needs

Curbside pickup of groceries and other big-box retailer goods had been growing for years, then boomed during the pandemic, reaching mainstream adoption. Now, Target is taking the opportunity to offer…

Target will allow you to return items from your car starting this spring

TikTok is continuing its push toward making its app a shopping destination by onboarding more brands for its Shop initiative, which lets companies sell their goods directly on the app…

More brands are now testing TikTok’s Shop feature in the US

As Meta gears up for its “year of efficiency,” the company announced today it’s exiting the livestream shopping business on Instagram, following a similar shutdown on Facebook. Starting on March…

Instagram is killing live shopping in March, will focus on ads instead

Pinterest said during its latest earnings call that the service now has 450 million monthly active users globally, a 4% jump year-on-year. The company noted that while the user base…

Pinterest reaches 450 million monthly users, will focus on making videos ‘shoppable’

Walmart recently introduced a new way to shop: via text. Last month, the retail giant launched its “Text to Shop” experience which allows mobile consumers across both iOS and Android…

Hands on with Walmart’s new (but buggy) ‘Text to Shop’ feature

Temu, a shopping app from Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo, is having quite the run as the No. 1 app on the U.S. app stores. The mobile shopping app hit the…

Shopping app Temu is using TikTok’s strategy to keep its No. 1 spot on App Store

Amazon is bringing a TikTok-like shopping experience to its app. The company today announced the launch of Inspire, a new short-form video and photo feed that allows consumers to explore…

Amazon launches Inspire, a TikTok-like shopping feed that supports both photos and videos

Amazon announced that it will now allow customers to make payments through Venmo on its platform. The company said this option will be available to select customers starting today and…

Amazon now allows customers to make payments through Venmo

PayPal is taking a step away from the Honey brand, the $4 billion shopping rewards acquisition it made in 2019, with today’s launch of PayPal Rewards. The new program will…

PayPal debuts a new rewards program that combines Honey’s discounts with other ways to earn

Online shopping and speedy delivery through services like Instacart and Amazon Prime are the height of modern conveniences, but for many consumers who care about sustainability and e-commerce’s impact on…

The Rounds raises $38M Series A for its sustainable ‘household restocking’ service

At its Search On event this afternoon, Google announced a number of shopping-related changes and new features across areas that include visual shopping, personalization and buying with the help of…

Google revamps shopping with 3D images, shoppable looks, buying guides and more personalization

Bloomingdale’s virtual store will initially feature collections from brands like Polo Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, David Yurman, MCM, Byredo and Baccarat.

Bloomingdale’s goes all-in on metaverse with new virtual store

In-session marketing, a form of inbound marketing that attempts to analyze and influence web and app users’ purchasing decisions, is often challenging to implement. With so much competing for consumers’…

ZineOne raises cash to help e-commerce companies predict customer behavior