Medline Details Its Prime Vendor Model Expansion Into Canada
Medline announced the expansion of its Prime vendor supply model into Canada, naming Mohawk Medbury as the first customer. The agreement gives Medline control over product sourcing, inventory, distribution and daily deliveries from its Guelph warehouse for hospitals in southwestern Ontario. The move leverages the company’s U.S. experience and aligns with its goal of $1 billion in new Prime vendor signings. By centralizing logistics, Medline aims to improve efficiency and frontline care capacity for Canadian health‑care providers.
Alibaba Integrates PicCopilot with Google Ads, Eyeing Conversion for Ecommerce
Alibaba has launched a new integration that connects its AI‑powered PicCopilot platform with Google Ads, enabling merchants to generate display ads and video creatives in seconds. The feature, dubbed Good Ads, is aimed at small‑ and medium‑size ecommerce operators, many...
Ecommerce Earnings Recap: BJ’s Wholesale, Williams-Sonoma and More
The latest ecommerce earnings roundup shows digital sales accelerating across the sector, with BJ’s Wholesale Club reporting a 9.9% rise in net sales to $5.53 billion and a 28% jump in digitally enabled comparable sales. Williams‑Sonoma posted a 4.4% revenue increase...
Walmart Credits Sparky AI Agent with Lifting AOV, Unit Sales Growth
Walmart’s AI‑driven shopping assistant Sparky is now live across its website, mobile app and stores, delivering a 35% higher average order value for users and more than quadrupling unit sales versus the prior quarter. Weekly active users of Sparky doubled...
Ecommerce Trends: Which Type of Online Retailer Is Growing Fastest in the 2020s?
Digital Commerce 360’s 2026 Top 1000 Report shows ecommerce sales reached $1.379 trillion in 2025, the fifth consecutive year above $1 trillion. Consumer Brand Manufacturers (CBMs) posted the highest five‑year CAGR at 9.3%, led by Apple, Dell and Lululemon. Web‑Only retailers followed closely...
Home Depot Puts AI Tools for Pro Customers Into One Workspace
Home Depot is consolidating its AI‑enabled tools for professional customers into a single, project‑management workspace, streamlining order planning, material‑list creation, delivery tracking and team collaboration. The retailer’s Pro segment posted double‑digit growth in Q1, outpacing its DIY business, driven by...
Google Unveils Its New Universal Cart for Agentic Commerce
At Google I/O, the company introduced Universal Cart, an AI‑powered shopping hub that lets users add items from different retailers while browsing Search, Gemini, YouTube or Gmail. The tool runs on the Universal Commerce Protocol co‑developed with Shopify, enabling agents...
How Vessi Uses Data to Drive Operational Decisions, Conversion
Vessi’s D2C team runs three to four conversion‑rate tests each month, using daily and weekly funnel data to pinpoint friction points across product pages and checkout. Insights from both quantitative metrics and qualitative customer feedback drive copy tweaks, product adjustments,...
3 Ways Edible Brands Has Grown Its AOV in 2026
Edible Brands lifted its average order value in 2026 by extending last‑mile delivery, adding AI‑driven personalization, and selling through major food‑delivery marketplaces. Partnerships with Nash, Uber Direct and Roadie let the retailer ship perishable gifts up to 70 miles while...
Ecommerce Trends: Which Online Retailers Use Subscription Models?
Subscription models are gaining traction among North American e‑commerce leaders. Chewy’s Autoship program accounted for $10.5 billion, or 83.3% of its 2025 net sales, while the Digital Commerce 360 Top 1000 report shows only 3.2% of retailers used subscriptions in 2026. Retailers...
Tapestry Builds AI-Powered Mira to Pull Data, Make Decisions
Tapestry Inc., the parent of Coach and Kate Spade, launched Mira, an in‑house AI platform that aggregates data across merchandising, supply chain, finance and retail operations. The company secured a U.S. patent covering Mira’s core architecture and integrated Amazon Bedrock to...
VTEX Revenue, GMV Grow Double Digits in Q1
VTEX reported Q1 FY26 revenue of $60.7 million, a 12.1 percent increase year over year, and GMV of $5.1 billion, up 17.1 percent. Subscriptions accounted for 98.8 percent of revenue, growing 14 percent, as the company deepened its AI‑driven commerce suite. More than 20 Top‑2000 retailers...
EBay Rejects GameStop’s Acquisition Offer
eBay’s board formally rejected GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s unsolicited proposal to acquire the marketplace, calling the offer neither credible nor attractive. Cohen valued eBay at about $55.5 billion but could only account for under $30 billion in funding, creating a sizable financing...
OroCommerce Partners with Intellias, Introduces a New Integration with iPaaS.com
OroCommerce announced two strategic moves in May: a strategic partnership with AI specialist Intellias and a new integration with iPaaS.com. The Intellias deal adds artificial‑intelligence capabilities, such as predictive demand forecasting, to OroCommerce’s B2B platform. The iPaaS.com integration creates a...
Academy Sports and Outdoors’ Omnichannel Definition Includes AI Platforms
Academy Sports and Outdoors is expanding its omnichannel strategy to include AI platforms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. CIO Sumit Anand says the retailer is maturing product feeds, using AI to enrich attributes and enable conversational, agentic search...