TikTok's transformation into a shopping app is complete

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TikTok Shop has broken through in the US market.

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Costco's precious metal offerings are a cheat code for e-commerce sales as gold passes $4,400 an ounce

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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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Target is experiencing a major system outage in the final week of the holiday shopping rush

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Target's app outage comes at an especially inconvenient time.

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TikTok restructured its e-commerce product and data teams amid the busy holiday shopping season

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Walmart just extended its Christmas Eve delivery hours

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Customers walk through holiday shopping displays at a Walmart Supercenter retail store in North Bergen, New Jersey, U.S., November 21, 2025.
Walmart fulfills 2.5X more express delivery orders in December than it does during the rest of the year.

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I finally bought something on Temu, and I'm not sure the discounts justify the chaotic app

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A man shops on Temu, a Chinese e-commerce platform, during the Eid al-Adha holiday, in Hawalli Governorate, Kuwait, June 7, 2025
Shopping on Temu feels more like gaming than commerce.

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Retailers are offering extreme last-minute delivery on Christmas Eve

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Postal workers wearing Santa hats, sort through mail and packages during a media tour hosted by the US Postal Service at the Los Angeles Processing and Distribution Center on November 30, 2023.
The race is on to see who can deliver the cheer like Saint Nick.

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Amazon is speeding up its delivery with a new ultrafast test that arrives in 30 minutes or less

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Packages ready to be loaded into delivery vehicles at Amazon's Elkhart Delivery Station on Dec. 1, 2025 in Elkhart, Indiana.
Amazon recently added 4,000 "smaller" communities to its same-day fulfillment service as it speeds up delivery in the US.

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TikTok Shop crossed $500 million in US sales during the Black Friday Cyber Monday week

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

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