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Amazon.com illegally raised prices for advertisers by surreptitiously raising the minimum price required to place ads that ‌promote their products, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this week. The agency, joined by a bipartisan group of 22 U.S. states, said Amazon systematically inflated auction prices for advertisers…

A shopper messages a retailer's “product concierge” that looks and sounds exactly like the founder who launched the company a decade ago. A training video features an associate of the year, still greeting new hires long after she left for a competitor. Neither is science fiction. Generative artificial intelligence now makes it simple to turn…

Amazon.com announced last week that that it has received $600 million in tariff refunds after the Supreme Court ruled that many of President Donald Trump’s levies were illegal. The online retail giant said it expects to return some of that cash to customers. “We’ve identified a limited set of circumstances where we can trace that we’ve…

Shein’s U.S. business is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, the fast-fashion giant revealed in documents connected to its upcoming Hong Kong initial public offering. In the filing, the Chinese-founded company didn’t say what the FTC is investigating, but the disclosure appears to be the first time the probe was made public. Shein previously tried…

Menswear company Tailored Brands Inc. filed publicly for an initial public offering, the latest step in its return to the public market. The holding company for brands including Men’s Wearhouse and Jos. A. Bank had net income of $44.9 million in the three months ended May 2 on revenue of $681.8 million, compared with net…

7-Eleven has sued Nike, accusing the company of copying the convenience store's signature colors for its newest sneaker launch planned on July 11, known as "7-Eleven Day." The convenience store chain filed a lawsuit last week in a federal court in Texas, alleging that the new Air Max 95 sneaker launch features a "confusingly similar imitation of 7-Eleven’s…

Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how advertising gets made. What once required days of model shoots, full video crews, and large creative teams can now be produced faster and at lower cost with AI tools. For retailers, that means quicker creation of digital ads, seasonal campaigns, product imagery, social media content, and even updated…

Corporate industry has become enamored with artificial intelligence agents, those autonomous bits of software that execute any number of work tasks. This is a big reason why Gartner predicts that 40 percent of enterprise applications will feature task-specific agents through 2026. Agents that can facilitate customer service on behalf of brands are taking off in…

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The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge by Macy's to a National Labor Relations Board ​(NLRB) decision requiring the retailer to compensate employees who the company fired in a case in which the company sought ‌to roll back the agency's power to order such action. Macy's had appealed a lower court's…