Shoppers are on pace to break Black Friday online spending records and use AI more than ever as sales hit $8.6 billion

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Black Friday sales
AI-driven traffic to retail sites is expected to surge 600% compared to last year, according to Adobe.

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Read the 8-page pitch deck a founder backed by Slow Ventures is using to try to solve retail's $25 billion a year return problem

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Adarsh Alphons
The CEO of Adarsh Alphons pivoted his peer-to-peer rental platform into Postmoda, which sells designer returns.

Courtesy of Adarsh Alphons

TikTok Shop is one of the fastest-growing brands in the US, as social shopping hits the mainstream

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TikTok Shop logo.

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'It's organized crime': TikTok Shop says it's fighting a new wave of AI scammers

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TikTok Shop van.

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A 17-year-old earned $72,000 after investing his e-commerce profits into stocks. Here's why he bet on the tech industry.

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Young Geniuses: Samik Sidhu
Samik Sidhu, 17, created an e-commerce business and invested in stocks. [CORRECT?]

Samik Sidhu

'Girlboss' Sophia Amoruso says she was too quick to fire people at Nasty Gal. She shared what she learned from the startup's epic rise and fall.

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Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso
Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso.

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As gold hits $4,000, precious metals are top sellers at Costco — and a cheat code for boosting its e-commerce business

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Gold and silver bars for sale at a Costco warehouse in Wisconsin.
Gold and silver bars for sale at a Costco warehouse.

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OpenAI enters a special new phase of extreme influence

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Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI, photographed in Berlin
Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI, photographed in Berlin

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US retailers are racing to achieve 30-minute delivery. Here's why that's probably as fast as they will promise.

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A woman collects a grocery delivery order from her doorstep.
Retailers like Walmart, Amazon, and Target are competing to see who can get orders fulfilled the quickest.

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The Chinese e-commerce app the US can't get enough of right now

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DHGate app on App Store.
There's been an uptick in interest in DHgate, an e-commerce platform from China.

Screenshots from App Store and the DHgate app/BI

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