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California Suit Accuses Amazon of Anticompetitive Price Blocking

This story has been updated to include comment from Amazon. In a complaint filed Sept. 14, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta…

Retailers Wrangle for a Piece of the Prime Day Pie

As Amazon Prime Day approaches, more and more retailers are aiming to get in on the action with their own competing sales….

Mattress Firm Files For Bankruptcy, Will Close Up To 700 Stores

After weeks of rumors regarding its future, Mattress Firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will begin to close roughly 200…

Amazon May Own Prime Day, But 75% Of Shoppers Visit Competing Sites

Prime Day, which will be held July 16-17, has become the premier shopping event of the summer: Coresight Research estimates that Amazon will generate approximately $3.4 billion in worldwide sales during the 2018 event,…

Warby Parker, Net-a-Porter Founders To Judge Retail Concept Competition

Appear Here, a marketplace for pop-up shops, has announced its second Space for Ideas competition to discover the next three big retail…

Walmart Scraps ShippingPass, Lowers Free Shipping Threshold To $35

Walmart has cancelled its ShippingPass subscription delivery pilot only seven months after opening the platform to all shoppers, a sign of the…

PayPal Extends Mastercard Partnership As It Aims To Boost Brick-And-Mortar Presence

Two months after PayPal patched up an old rivalry with Visa, the digital payments platform is entering a similar agreement with Mastercard….

Pitfalls Of Success: 4 Red Flags Thrown At Uber And AirBNB

I considered myself a loyal customer of Uber…until recently. I’ve used the service in several cities with ease. But I had a bad…

Judge’s Ruling Dooms $6.3 Billion Staples-Office Depot Merger

Staples has called off its long-planned $6.3 billion merger with Office Depot, after U.S. District Court judge Emmet Sullivan granted the Federal…

As Sports Authority Liquidates, What’s Next For Its Stores?

After a tumultuous few months that involved a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, preparations to close approximately 140 stores, then a push-back of…