Walmart had its best Q1 comparable store sales growth in nine years, achieving 3.4% growth with total revenue climbing 1% to $123.9 billion. E-Commerce sales continued to rise, boosted by a mid-single digit expansion in online grocery offerings and strong sales in home goods and fashion accessories, which were up…

E-Commerce pet food retailer Chewy has filed for an IPO and will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “CHWY.” The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined.

Amazon heavily outperformed Q1 earnings expectations, reporting earnings of $7.09 per share — well ahead of the $4.72 per share predicted by Refinitiv. Profitability continues to be a bigger priority for the e-Commerce giant; its net income reached a record $3.6 billion, while its operating income of $4.4 billion represented…

PayPal has made a strategic investment in Happy Returns as part of an $11 million financing round that also included existing investors U.S. Venture Partners and Upfront Ventures. The returns, logistics and reporting solution provider has raised a total of $25 million since its founding in 2015. “Our mission is to make returns more delightful for consumers, more cost-effective for retailers, and more sustainable for the planet,” said David Sobie, Co-Founder and CEO at Happy Returns in a statement. “We’re thrilled to work with PayPal to make the process of returning more seamless for shoppers and our service more broadly available to PayPal’s large network of merchants.”

FullStory, a digital intelligence platform, secured $32 million in Series C funding. The round, which brings the company’s total funding up to $47 million, was led by Stripes Group. Existing investors, including Dell Technologies Capital, GV, Kleiner Perkins and Salesforce Ventures, also contributed. The company said it plans to use the funds to expand on its platform’s digital intelligence capabilities and grow its team with at least 100 new hires over the next year.

Vue.ai, a platform designed to provide retailers with AI-driven and computer vision-based styling recommendations, automated product tagging, shoppable content and visual search capabilities, has raised $17 million in a Series B funding round led by Falcon Edge Capital. The new round brings the company’s total capital raised to $27.5 million. Already generating a fourfold annual revenue increase in 2018, Vue.ai will use the funds to grow its international team and scale its existing consumer base, according to a company statement. The platform is designed to automate critical functions across departments that are heavily dependent on human intuition, unifying data about products, people and processes. Global retailers such as Macy’s, thredUP, Argentina-based Mercadolibre and India-based Tata presently use Vue.ai.

Starbucks has aspired to become the preferred coffee destination in China for a few years now, originally outlining a plan to open 5,000 cafés by 2021. But it is not the only coffee company pursuing aggressive growth in this market: China-based Luckin Coffee is planning 2,500 stores in 2019 alone, one year after building out a total of 2,000 in 2018. In the latest stage of its expansion, Luckin Coffee filed for an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The coffee chain intends to list under the symbol "LK" on the Nasdaq, setting a placeholder amount of $100 million to indicate the size of the IPO, according to an SEC filing. The filing reports a 3,883% revenue increase between Q1 2018 and Q1 2019, but with losses more than tripling total revenue over that same period. For the first three months of 2019, the company continued to post a net loss of $85.3 million. Much of these losses come from the rapid store expansion — Luckin only opened its first café in October 2017 — in addition to the company’s focus on value pricing. It’s a far cry from the Starbucks focus on brand prestige to attract…

Casper is joining Glossier and Rent the Runway as the latest digital native retailer to be valued at $1 billion, on the heels of a new $100 million Series D funding round. With the cash infusion, Casper is now valued at $1.1 billion, and seeks to use the funding to scale its global expansion efforts across brick-and-mortar, e-Commerce and wholesale. The funding and valuation come as Casper is seeking to hire underwriters for an IPO, according to Reuters.

Levi Strauss & Co. raised $623.3 million through its IPO, valuing the company at over $6.5 billion. The retailer offered approximately 36.7 million shares at $17 each, and has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LEVI.