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Walmart's payments app OnePay quietly added Solana and Arbitrum to its crypto lineup, and months later both tokens surged dramatically. But figuring out whether the listing deserves any credit reveals something surprising about how retail crypto access actually works.

Meta's new shopping agent rattled online travel stocks almost equally, but Booking Holdings and Expedia chose opposite responses to the threat. One strategy leaves a company dangerously exposed if Meta decides to cut out the middleman entirely.

Ben Shuleva, consumer-sector leader at Fidelity Investments, sees tough times for the industry but opportunities in some food, beverage, and retailing names.

Closed-system displays contain no cameras, microphones or facial recognition and show identical prices to every shopper.

Costco Wholesale (COST) stock rose 2.9% in the first session after its Q4 FY2026 report. The shares trade at 46.4 times earnings, more than twice the S&P 500's 21.9, so holders are counting on growth that keeps coming. What should a Costco holder take from a quarter that beat estimates and lifted the stock, yet left questions about whether its price cuts are driving more sales.

For five years, the home improvement giant showered its owners with cash, yet the stock itself fell behind. Here's what that trade-off actually delivered.

Amazon now spends more on building its business than the business brings in as cash. On its July 2026 earnings call, management raised its 2026 spending plan to about $220 billion. Most of the prior $200 billion budget had been allocated toward AI and AWS. Management has not said when the spending will slow, though it noted on the call that Amazon has already issued debt this year and cited further borrowing among its options to cover any shortfall. So could Amazon keep paying for the build-out

Costco just posted its fifth consecutive earnings beat and carries a renewal rate that almost no retailer can match, yet the stock sits well off its highs. Our model reveals whether that gap is an opportunity or a warning.

Both companies generate billions in cash regardless of the economy.

Ulta Beauty (NasdaqGS:ULTA) is ramping up wellness-focused shop-in-shop concepts as beauty and self-care gain shelf space in big-box retail. Walmart is expanding its own beauty and wellness aisles with more premium brands, putting direct pressure on Ulta Beauty's core category mix. Retail partners and suppliers are increasingly treating wellness as a separate growth pillar, reshaping how Ulta Beauty positions its boutiques versus mass retailers. The Ulta Beauty and Walmart beauty aisle...

Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT) said on September 27 that it does not use personal information to set prices, as it expands the digital shelf labels, replacing paper tags across its stores. The labels can be updated electronically rather than by hand, and the same capability has raised concern that prices could be varied by shopper or […]

Walmart (NasdaqGS:WMT) is part of a new Google pilot that lets Indian shoppers buy from Flipkart using Gemini and AI Mode. The test allows Flipkart products to be discovered and purchased directly inside Google’s AI experiences for users in India. The program targets online buyers in India as the festive shopping season approaches, a period when e-commerce activity typically climbs. This Google pilot for AI-powered Flipkart shopping in India is worth weighing alongside the rest of our...

A hard-charging former Walmart executive who now helms Kroger has brought its emphasis on everyday low prices to his turnaround efforts.

Families in several states are suddenly losing a neighborhood staple they have relied on for generations.

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In the latest trading session, Walmart (WMT) closed at $106.8, marking a -1.78% move from the previous day.

Management rejects personalized prices while preserving AI's role in recommendations, inventory and customer service.

Best Buy (BBY) should shift its capital allocation focus from dividends to share buybacks to capital

Target's latest value push comes as retailers compete for increasingly price-conscious shoppers ahead of a crowded holiday promotional period.

John Furner issued a letter attempting to dispel pricing concerns about digital shelf labels and Sparky, but some say a Walmart patent leaves the door open.

Kraft Heinz trades at a steep discount but just took a $7.4 billion impairment hit; Coca-Cola commands a premium on proven profitability and scale.

Once-obscure patent filings are giving companies PR headaches. Witness Walmart promising once again not to engage in dynamic pricing. The question has percolated for Walmart all year, fueled by its new digital shelf labels and a pair of patents—one to dynamically update prices online and another to recommend prices based on anticipated demand.

Walmart's membership fee revenues hit a record high as Walmart+, Sam's Club and international growth deepen engagement and support e-commerce economics.

CEO John Furner says the retailer won’t use artificial intelligence or personalized data to set individual pricing.

Zacks.com users have recently been watching Walmart (WMT) quite a bit. Thus, it is worth knowing the facts that could determine the stock's prospects.

The stock market is facing a triple threat to start the week, but there’s reason to hope it can overcome all three of its nemeses. Oil prices and bond yields are putting stocks under pressure, while artificial-intelligence safety fears are also back. Brent crude prices have jumped around 4% back above $100 a barrel after the U.S. and Iran failed to broker a deal to end the war in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, shares of Meta Platforms, which recently rolled out its new AI-assistant Muse, are up 31%. “We think it’s fairly straightforward that third-party applications that offer to make purchases on behalf of customers from other businesses should operate openly and respect service provider decisions about whether or not to participate,” an Amazon spokesperson said. By shopping on behalf of its users, Muse could imperil Amazon’s advertising business, which generated $19.8 billion in revenue in the company’s second quarter this year, and the future of online shopping.

In a letter, CEO John Furner said using such information “to charge them more would violate the EDLP promise our business model is built on. We won't do it.”

Costco's membership growth contrasted with steep drops at Stitch Fix and MGM Resorts.

The Kraft Heinz Company (NYSE:KHC) is trying to prove that a decades-old brand can still generate new demand rather than just defend old share. The company recently introduced three new Philadelphia cream cheese flavors: a Mike’s Hot Honey variety sold exclusively at Walmart, a salted caramel option, and a seasonal cranberry orange. It is part […]

Retailers are watching a line that used to be tidy between drugstore beauty, prestige cosmetics, and wellness start to blur. As of mid-September 2026, shoppers increasingly treat beauty, health, and wellness spending as one budget rather than three. That convergence is redrawing the competitive map for Walmart Inc. (NASDAQ:WMT) and Ulta Beauty, Inc. (NASDAQ:ULTA). Walmart […]

Sam Walton opened a single discount store in rural Arkansas in 1962 with no obvious path to greatness. What he built in the decades that followed rewrote every assumption about how fast a retail empire could grow and how much wealth one family could accumulate.

Price isn’t the only reason consumers are making a major switch.

BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BJ) is the warehouse club nobody argues about. Costco gets the attention, and Sam’s Club has Walmart behind it. Moody’s has just moved its outlook on BJ’s to positive from stable, affirming a Ba1 rating and pointing to a possible move into investment grade. The shares rose 2.12%. The interesting […]

As consumers compare prices and look for deals, manufacturers may have less room to raise prices without losing sales.

Walmart is aiming to assuage customers' fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores. In a statement posted on the company's website, Walmart Inc.'s CEO John Furner vowed that the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer isn't using personal information like income, shopping history or a customer's willingness to pay to set prices, and it won't be doing so in the future either. “We don’t set different prices based on who you are or the time of day, and we won’t,” Furner wrote Friday.

AWS just posted its fastest growth in 18 quarters and CEO Andy Jassy is talking about a trillion-dollar revenue business, yet the stock sits well below where our model says it should be trading.

Key Stats for Walmart StockCurrent Price: $107. 98Target Price (Mid): ~$152Street Target: ~$127Potential Total Return: ~40%Annualized IRR: ~8% / yearWhat Happened?Walmart (WMT) CEO John Furner put a pricing pledge in writing on September 25: “We price the product, not the person.

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ALDI has entered the battle among grocery chains competing for shoppers seeking cheaper, faster dinners.

Amazon.com (AMZN) management now leads its calls with AI. It plans about $220 billion of 2026 capital spending. The easy reading is that the stores run themselves while the cloud arm takes the spending. That reading holds only if two things are true. The stores must keep getting cheaper to run, and the cloud arm must earn back what it spends. Did the stores stop getting cheaper to run, or did management just stop leading with them.

Costco just posted one of its strongest quarters in years while its stock quietly bled lower for twelve months, and now one of Wall Street's most respected firms sees a setup that almost no one is talking about.

Costco Wholesale (COST) reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for its fiscal fourth qua

While profitability is essential, it doesn’t guarantee long-term success. Some companies that rest on their margins will lose ground as competition intensifies — as Jeff Bezos said, “Your margin is my opportunity”.

Retail giant Walmart Inc. (NASDAQ:WMT) is one of Jim Cramer’s favorite stocks primarily due to the firm’s ability to lower prices and compete at scale. With the current inflationary wave gripping the United States, Cramer discussed the role that the firm could play in keeping prices down and create long term value: “That’s why I […]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has collected $166 billion in tariffs on imported goods from 330,000 importers.

Amazon (AMZN) said Friday it is adding tools that let sellers manage listings, orders and inventory

Costco delivered another strong earnings report, even as rivals like Walmart are seeing slowing revenue growth.

the three companies’ have a combined market cap of nearly $6.8 trillion. These guys have a tough task ahead of them. We spell it out.

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) has overtaken Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) to become the world’s seventh-largest public company by market capitalization, as excitement builds around its new AI agent, Muse. Muse Gives Meta a New Growth Story At Thursday’s close, Meta’s market cap was roughly $1.72 trillion, ahead of SpaceX’s $1.14 trillion, according to Yahoo Finance data. Muse was launched on Sept. 8 and quickly climbed to No. 1 on Apple’s U.S. App Store, with its 12-day