E-commerce

Amazon Is Closing Its Fresh Grocery, Go Convenience Stores
Amazon announced it will close all of its Amazon Fresh grocery and Amazon Go convenience store locations, citing the failure of these physical retail experiments

Amazon AI Tool Blindsides Merchants by Offering Products Without Their Knowledge
Amazon is testing an AI-driven “Buy For Me” feature that duplicates independent merchants’ product listings and fulfills orders on their behalf, leading to fulfillment errors,

Truemed Closes $34 Million Series A to Unlock HSA/FSA Funds for Lifestyle Interventions
Truemed, a marketplace and payments platform that helps eligible consumers use HSA and FSA funds for preventive health purchases, has raised $34M in Series A

CapRelease Raises $36M to Expand Embedded Finance Offering
CapRelease, the logistics-embedded finance platform for eCommerce retailers, has raised $36m in combined debt and equity to scale its logistics-embedded working capital model, signaling investor

You Can Buy Your Instacart Groceries Without Leaving ChatGPT
OpenAI and Instacart have deepened their partnership by embedding end-to-end grocery shopping directly into ChatGPT, advancing OpenAI’s broader push toward agentic commerce, where AI not

India’s E-Commerce Firm Meesho Draws $28 Billion in IPO as Institutional Investors Pile in
Meesho’s $604 million IPO drew extraordinary demand, receiving bids worth roughly $28 billion, making it one of India’s most highly subscribed public offerings. Institutional buyers
