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UK-based health and beauty retailer Boots. It had been in talks to be sold multiple times over the past few years. What a sale-and-split means for Walgreens’ future: A take-private sale could alleviate some of the pressure that Walgreens has been dealing with over the past few years. Not having to meet shareholders’ expectations would allow executives to focus on reorganizing the new business units.

Our annual report on ecommerce in Canada highlights our most recent forecasts for all flavors of retail, including brick-and-mortar, digital buying, and mobile commerce.

Ecommerce payment preferences vary country by country, but digital wallets now lead in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK, giving them the biggest overall share of European ecommerce transaction values, per a March 2023 report by FIS.

On today's episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss why beauty is doing so much better than the rest of retail, how we've seen the "lipstick effect" play out, and how beauty shopping habits are changing. Then, for "Pop-Up Rankings," we rank our top four beauty brand marketing strategies other retailers can learn from. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analysts Sky Canaves and Carina Perkins.

PayPal partnered with Verifone to pair the point-of-sale (POS) provider’s hardware with Braintree’s payment processing and ecommerce capabilities, which are being rebranded as PayPal Enterprise Payments. This can help the company, which dominates ecommerce checkout, make inroads in store.

And honestly, I doubt that most Amazon shoppers will even know the coverage exists unless Amazon goes in heavily on promoting it in their app or something, and I'm not sure they're that keen to do that. I also thought that choosing Brian Williams as a way to build up their news brand was a strange choice. I'm not sure he's much of a household name these days.

The insight: Amazon is trying to make a bigger name for itself in the luxury sphere—a strategy that could help soften the blow from tariffs. Our take: That designer brands and retailers are eager to partner with Amazon despite its mixed track record in luxury shows the state of the industry, which is under serious pressure as economic uncertainty saps even affluent consumers’ desire to shop. Amazon’s extensive reach—three-quarters of US households are Prime users, per our forecast—and ability to drive spending even in times of volatility are making it an increasingly valuable partner for any brand looking to drive sales in an unsettled environment.

Really, I mean this is the forefront, at least in my opinion, of consumer-facing generative AI tools within e-commerce. I mean, really what it does is it puts the technology front and center and is asking shoppers to interact with the tool in order to really guide their shopping experience from the get-go. (05:17):.

TikTok has been hinting at e-commerce in the US for a while and it's a major part of the business model of its parent company ByteDance in Asia. Now TikTok will be competing with the likes of Amazon as well as companies like Shein and Temu for US e-commerce. Suzy, your review of this story in 60 seconds is... Suzy Davidkhanian:.