Plus: Comic book jazz and Chromebook blues.

Costco has never — and likely will never — raise the price of its $1.50 hot dog combo.

A roundup of what’s happening with the retail giant.

Where does swag go when the company dies?

Even UPS says it’s not sure what it’s doing there.

Plus: Lobbying spend is poppin’ and teen unemployment is droppin’.

Problems on both the supply and demand side are plaguing florists everywhere.

Meta’s 1st brick-and-mortar show will let customers dip a toe in the metaverse through hands-on experiences.

BNPL is a friendly jingle, and younger generations have taken the bait.

Plus: Bookstore sales and Francis Ford Coppola’s new movie.

Different retailers are pursuing different strategies, but all of them are rooted in self-preservation.

Plus: Retail sales might be back while Alexa continues to struggle.

Plus: The warehouse equation, and billionaires are… rich.

While there was 1.4% dip in Cyber Monday sales, don’t be fooled -- sales this season are through the roof.

Big retailers are letting customers keep items they want to return to avoid paying for shipping.

Macy’s new advertising network is pulling in tens of millions of dollars, and could be the company’s next big revenue stream.

Walmart -- the $400B retailer -- is using its size to manage inflation and supply chain issues.

Faire, a wholesale marketplace platform, raised $400m at a $12.4B valuation to help independent retailers take on Amazon and Walmart.

D2C brand Glossier gets back into in-person retail with experiential, Insta-friendly stores.

Is building a bear fun if you do it online? Build-A-Bear bets on an interactive, digital workshop.

Plus: Retail battle bots and a massive Roblox outage.

Plus: YouTube has 1k+ people texting video creators daily, and Jennifer Gates’ pricey wedding.

When “Supermarket Sweep” debuted in the ‘60s, you could win the Big Sweep with $300. Today, it’s over $2k of wagyu steaks and fancy honey.

Plus: Burlington Stores’ wise name change and mermaids beat congresswomen.

Amazon has America’s 3rd largest ad business, more than 2x the size of Snap, Twitter, Roku, and Pinterest combined.

Dollar General’s new store, Popshelf, offers items for $5 or less, and has been wildly successful so far, which could lead to massive expansion.

Plus: Walmart braces for impact, Amazon pays Chicago for locker space, and container oligopolies are a thing.

When the pandemic upset the time-tested practice of in-store sampling, brands got creative.

Across 100s of responses, the average price per item was $46.

Former Kmarts now house labs, churches, and more.