These Women Are Selling Mary Kay Makeup From Bomb Shelters In War Torn Ukraine: As the country’s war with Russia rages on, thousands of Ukrainian women have turned to the multi-level marketing company’s pink-packaged offerings to support their families.

Temu’s Blazing Run Could Falter In 2024 With Changes To Unpopular Tax Break: The Chinese retailer, with about $16 billion in goods sold in its first full year, faces bipartisan efforts to close a U.S. trade loophole that’s been key to its rise.

Marriott Resorts Turn To A Tiny Toy Retailer To Keep Kids Happy During Vacations: The hotel giant has brought on Camp, a chain with nine locations, to reimagine its kids clubs as it looks to build its all-inclusive business.

Care Bears And Other Classic Toys Are Back In Vogue, Sparking ‘Fist Fights’ Over Licensing Rights: An unsettled retail landscape is making it tougher than ever for entrepreneurs to acquire slices of the lucrative nostalgia toy businesses.

30 Under 30 2024: Meet The Retail & E-Commerce Founders Behind The Buzziest New Brands: This year’s class of young entrepreneurs are the creators of TikTok-famous brands gaining shelf space at the nation’s largest retailers.

EBay, Losing Shoppers To Amazon, Keeps Trying To Woo Superfans: The site has been adding buyer-friendly features like authentication to keep its best customers around. It hasn’t stopped their ranks from thinning.

Despite Skepticism Over The Rise In Retail Theft, Stores Are Adopting Police Technology: Companies that sell body cams to law enforcement are now chasing a promising new market even as critics question the extent of the problem.

The Market For 12-Foot Halloween Skeletons Isn’t What It Used To Be: We may have hit peak Skelly.

How Struggling College Bookstores Found A Way To Beat Amazon: A new sales model called Inclusive Access, adopted by hundreds of universities, limits students’ ability to shop around for textbooks.

Retailers Are Testing An AI Bot That Haggles With Customers Over Price: Negotiating prices just isn’t done in person, but online there are different rules.

How Staff Cuts Are Undermining Petco’s Strategy Of Pushing Store Visits Instead Of The Internet: To compete against Chewy and Amazon, the retailer touts its 1,500 locations. But cost-cutting can make many stores less safe for animals.

Was Your Clothing Made By Forced Labor? These Startups Can Tell You: Import bans have sent retailers scrambling to prove their supply chains are free from cotton originating from places like China’s Xinjiang region.

This AI Startup Has Saved Grocers From Tossing Millions Of Pounds Of Food: Food waste costs grocery stores $28 billion every year. Afresh is working to slash that number.

Trump Jr.-Backed Anti-‘Woke’ Online Marketplace Goes Public Via SPAC: PublicSq. bills itself as a patriotic site for shoppers to buy from companies that support conservative values.

Buff City Balloons To 260 Stores With Kids’ Soap-Themed Birthday Parties: The bakery-style retailer, which makes soaps, bath bombs and detergent in its stores, grew at a frothy pace during the pandemic. Now it’s tending to growing pains.

Why It Took A Civilian To Save The Military’s $8.5 Billion Retail Operation: Turnaround expert Tom Shull plucked the Pentagon’s PX stores from the brink of collapse. Now he’s working to keep them profitable as enlistment numbers decline.

Temu’s Relentless Push To Woo American Shoppers: Freebies, Spam And Half A Billion In Losses: The Chinese shopping app has racked up over 70 million downloads in less than a year with a flood-the-zone offensive that emphasizes acquiring new customers over profit.

How Tractor Supply’s ‘Inflation Chickens’ Are Ruling The Backyard Roost: The retailer, capitalizing on America’s soaring interest in egg-laying flocks, will sell 11 million chicks this year.

Global 2000: Walmart Reclaims Top Spot From Amazon Among Retailers: Walmart has benefited from high inflation and economic uncertainty, and is once again the largest retailer on Forbes’ Global 2000 list.

It’s Hard To Rave About A Plain White T-Shirt, So Retailers Are Making AI Do It: Some retailers are using artificial intelligence to churn out hundreds of product descriptions that used to take weeks to write.

Plenty More Retailers Will Go Bankrupt This Year. The Only Surprise Is It Didn’t Happen Sooner.: The party is over for struggling retailers that enjoyed a pandemic-era boost, benefiting from cheap loans and stimulus-driven spending.

Clothing Entrepreneurs Can’t Wait To Fire Themselves As Models And Hire The AI Kind Instead: Despite the public roasting Levi’s took for flirting with AI, smaller clothing sellers who model their own products online maintain a growing interest in replacing themselves with the computer-generated kind.

A Billionaire’s Quest To Fund Welding, Automotive And Construction Classes In Public High Schools: Home improvement billionaire Eric Smidt never went to college. Now he’s become one of the largest backers of skilled trades education in American high schools.

Companies Rush To Raise Prices While They Still Can

Retail’s 1,000% Club: The Stocks Of These 11 Chains Have All Soared Since Pandemic’s Start: These retailers have had the biggest pandemic-era comebacks, with shares rising over 1,000% from their 2020 lows.