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Costco kicked off August with some genuinely aggressive tech markdowns. A Dell 16-inch touchscreen laptop with an Intel Core 7 chip, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD dropped to $999 (a $300 cut), the 75-inch TCL QM7L Pro mini-LED TV sits at $1,299 with a bundled Allstate protection plan, and the AirPods Pro 3 […]

Back-to-school season is officially the biggest it has ever been. The National Retail Federation’s 2026 survey projects K-12 families will spend a record $43.3 billion this year — up from $39.4 billion in 2025 and past the old high of $41.5 billion set in 2023. College households are set to smash records too, with projected […]

Last week, fast-fashion giant Shein posted a quarterly loss and warned that tariffs are eating into its margins, just as it prepares for a Hong Kong IPO. The headline is about one company, but the subtext is for every bargain hunter: the era of frictionless, ultra-cheap cross-border packages is changing, and the shoppers who adapt […]

Remember the old ritual of duty free? You’d wander past the perfumes and whiskey at the airport, get caught by a tester or a promotion, and walk away with something you never planned to buy. That impulse shopper is no longer the story. New research from the travel retail industry shows that 42% of duty […]

If you’re a parent, you’ve probably felt it already: the back-to-school season is coming in hot, and this year it’s going to be the most expensive one on record. New forecasts peg total US back-to-school spending at more than $43.3 billion for 2026 — a jump of nearly 10% from last year. That’s according to […]

If you’ve walked past a Primark lately, you might have noticed something unusual: price tags that look a little friendlier than before. In late July, the budget fashion giant announced price cuts of up to 29% on hundreds of items — and industry watchers agree on who pushed them to do it: Shein and Temu. […]

There’s an interesting shift happening in the e-commerce world. Japanese companies, traditionally focused on domestic sales, are now rushing to set up shop on Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book), one of China’s most popular social commerce platforms. AnyMind Group, a major marketing tech company, announced on July 13 that it’s launching full-scale cross-border e-commerce support specifically […]

If you’ve ever tried buying products from Chinese e-commerce platforms and felt overwhelmed by payment methods or shipping logistics, you’re not alone. A recent development between Ant International and Freedom Holding Corp is making headlines for exactly this reason. According to a Business Wire report from July 23, Freedom Holding Corp. has partnered with Ant […]