Last winter, press pieces abounded with stories about a purported shoplifting “crisis.” Such stories often included colorful quotes from certain […]

Trevor Wagener · September 26, 2022

A recent Axios article titled “Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions” repeats claims by industry groups like the Retail Industry Leaders Association […]

Trevor Wagener · February 14, 2022

Continuing a trend from last year, large retail companies are once again pushing a proposal to increase regulations on their […]

Matt Schruers · March 24, 2021

Recently, retailers have increasingly engaged in digital advertising based on the strength of their omni-channel retail strategy and consumer data […]

Project Disco · October 29, 2020

Between long-running (but sensationalist) anxieties about the “retail apocalypse” and a recent Frontline profile of Amazon, one might have the […]

Project Disco · February 20, 2020

A recent article from The Information detailing Amazon’s current retail profits calls into question an assertion occasionally made about Amazon’s […]

Matt Schruers · October 4, 2018

News reports from late June that Toys “R” Us will soon close its 700 remaining U.S. stores played into a […]

Glenn Manishin · July 13, 2018

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., Overstock.com, Inc., and Newegg, Inc., a […]

Matt Schruers · April 16, 2018

Amid shrill clamor that Amazon.com Inc. should be broken up because it is vaguely “too powerful,” some retrospection on a continuing […]

Glenn Manishin · February 9, 2018