Here's why you can't shop online at Victoria's Secret right now

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Victoria's Secret.
A Victoria's Secret store

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TikTok enters its efficiency era

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TikTok logo on a building.

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  • TikTok is laying off staff and instituting cost-saving measures as part of an efficiency push.
  • Many of the cuts have focused on its US e-commerce team.
  • TikTok Shop sales have slumped in the US this year amid tariffs and other uncertainty.

Belt-tightening is underway at TikTok.

Trump's tariffs are putting the robots to work

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A Formic robotic arm places packages
Formic's automated palletizer works in a facility.

Formic

I launched an eCommerce company with a $10,000 budget after interviewing top Amazon sellers. Here's everything I outsourced to save time, including a $250 task that was the best money I spent.

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The author and her cofounder launched Peak Pickleball with a $10,000 budget.

Katie Monds

Amazon's new discount section 'Haul' looks like a Temu version of Temu

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Amazon has launched Haul in beta form — and it's coming for Temu. (Or at least it's trying to.)

Amazon

TikTok is starting to help creators manufacture their own products

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Shop is a major focus at TikTok as the company looks to compete in social commerce.
Shopping is a major focus at TikTok as the company looks to compete in social commerce.

Craig Barritt/Getty Images for TikTok.

At TikTok's first big e-commerce summit, it doubled down on live shopping and learnings from China

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A woman being filmed on a set with beauty products laid out in front of her on a table. She's holding up a product and talking to the camera.
TikTok has become an important live-selling tool in parts of Asia.

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Starbucks' new CEO wants people to hang out in stores, but some workers say his plan has a big problem

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Starbucks store employees say the chain's online ordering system is holding them back from serving in-store customers.

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A Starbucks worker of nearly 20 years says the chain has gone from 'quirky coffee shop' to 'soulless fast food empire'

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Starbucks logo on store window
A Starbucks employee said that the company was better to work for under former CEO Howard Schultz.

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Chinese retail giants tried to juice spending with iPhone and Lululemon discounts in an annual shopping bonanza

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618 Mall Promotion in Hangzhou
An e-commerce anchor sold 618 promotional goods on a live broadcast at a mall in Hangzhou, China, on June 18, 2024.

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