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igh delivery costs are the No. 1 aspect of online shopping that frustrates adults worldwide, according to H1 2024 data from DHL.

Thanks to its growing retail media business, Walmart keeps its top spot on our 鈥淯nofficial Most interesting Retailers List鈥� for April 2024. Meanwhile, newcomer Home Depot and returning member TikTok Shop make the list for equipping advertisers with more data.

The president-elect recently said he would impose tariffs of 25% on Mexican and Canadian imports and an additional 10% on Chinese imports. During the campaign, Trump had proposed tariffs as high as 60% for Chinese goods, but business and inflationary concerns could have softened his approach.

TJX, Ross Stores are bullish as shoppers search for value: Both companies raised their profit outlooks in anticipation of growing demand and continued market share gains.

Walmart Canada also grew its private label sales by 7% YoY. 鈥淎s customers want to buy discretionary items, we are in a position to be able to show them value through the rest of this year, [value] that they might not find elsewhere,鈥� McMillon said in an earnings call. 2. Encourage product trial. In a challenging economic environment, it can be difficult to convince consumers to try new products.

Some 94% of consumers across the US, UK, and Canada prefer contextual ads over identity-based ads based on browsing history, per GumGum survey data. Almost 80% are more likely to engage with ads that match the content they are viewing, per the survey.

You can tune in tomorrow to hang out with Sara Lebow on the Reimagining Retail Show, where she speaks to head of retail and Canadian Suzy Davidkhanian and Canada expert Paul Briggs all about Canadian and US brands and why they work or don't work in each other's markets.

One Canadian startup called Frate, for example, does peer-to-peer returns which aim to make the returns process more sustainable. It鈥檚 these new angles on retail pain points that are always fun to see at the event. Hear more from other retail executives in this roundup made possible by Roundel. This was originally featured in the eMarketer Daily newsletter.

And interest in EVs is already cooling, perhaps in anticipation of the incoming administration鈥檚 moves: The proportion of shoppers interested in purchasing an EV for their next car fell 2% in December to 25%, per JD Power. Go further: For more on what the Trump administration will mean for the EV industry and beyond, read our election report.

Respondents were from United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand.

For context, prescription Cialis was first approved in 2003 and is marketed by Eli Lilly鈥攊n 2014, Lilly signed a licensing agreement with Sanofi that permits the latter to pursue regulatory approval of an OTC version in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. What鈥檚 driving the about-face?

In Q2 2024, Netflix received nearly 60% of its revenues from outside of the US and Canada. US-based streaming services continue to launch in new countries to gain viewers and diversify their revenues. The top 10 countries as measured by subscription OTT penetration are scattered across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, according to our forecasts.

By the end of 2024, Sephora will operate over 1,000 shop-in-shop locations at Kohl鈥檚 stores across the US. But if Sephora wants to launch a free-standing small-format store, a college campus would be a great place to start. 85% of Gen Z teens prefer to shop for beauty products in-store, according to Piper Sandler鈥檚 spring 2024 Taking Stock with Teens survey.

蘑菇AV benchmarks its Canada digital ad spending figures against data from IAB Canada, for which the last full year measured was 2021.

Our Christmica gift shopping as we call it in my mix household. So as I was shelling out dollars upon dollars, it occurred to me or I decided to ask ChatGPT the question of who in the world or where in the world do they spend the most on Christmas gifts? I did ask for Christmas.

It also shuttered its business in Australia to focus on its home market and Canada. The total restructure鈥攚hich could cost $39 million鈥攁ims to create a 鈥渘imbler team,鈥� CEO Max Levchin said during the Q3 earnings call. Why this tie-up matters: Affirm is targeting profitability by the end of fiscal 2023. Working with Worldpay can help it reach that goal.

Gen Z shoppers prefer to start their product searches on Amazon over TikTok. Marketplaces lose share in places where US shoppers start their shopping journeys. Marketplaces lose share in places where US shoppers start their shopping journeys. Retail stores still dominate ecommerce when it comes to new product discovery and conversion.

The regulator has reported the website to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Competition Bureau Canada, and the Ontario Provincial Police, per The New York Times. Unlike the satirical website for the fake Flat Earth Credit Union, Ottawa CU doesn't appear to be geared toward entertainment. What鈥檚 going on?

The rest of the world, however, will be getting a glimpse of future devices at MWC that might never make their way to the US and Canada, mostly due to geopolitical embargoes. What鈥檚 coming at MWC 2023: Chinese smartphone companies are finding limelight in the void left by LG, HTC, Nokia, Qualcomm, and other brands that have either folded or opted to hold their own events.

The news: Fiserv will acquire Canada-based earned wage access (EWA) provider Payfare, per a press release. The two companies previously competed for similar business: Payfare had been managing DoorDash鈥檚 debit card issuing platform for gig workers, but Fiserv won the DoorDash platform agreement in October.

They all cover retail and E-commerce. One of them is our vice president of content as well, in her spare time. As well as heading up our retail and E-Commerce desk, she's based in New York City where the green ones live. It's Suzy Davidkhanian. Suzy Davidkhanian:. Thanks for having me. Marcus Johnson:. Do you just refer to all of them as like the colors? Suzy Davidkhanian:. By the color, yeah.

The pandemic ecommerce boom that drove online sales is over. But marketplaces will continue to expand their share of US retail ecommerce, contributing almost 40% of the $588 billion in US online sales growth that we forecast over the next five years.

Last quarter, McDonald鈥檚 launched a nationwide scavenger hunt in Canada for fry icons, which could be redeemed in the mobile app for loyalty points or free fries. In Germany, an interactive calendar in the app offered daily discounts. The initiatives helped the McDonald鈥檚 loyalty program reach 166 million members, pacing ahead of expectations, according to Kempczinski.

That decision also invalidated 20% duties aimed at Canada, Mexico, and China over alleged links to the US fentanyl crisis. A second ruling from the D.C. District Court on Thursday afternoon reinforced that finding by blocking the government from collecting duties from the plaintiffs in a parallel case. But the legal outlook shifted again hours after the D.C.