China leads the world in retail ecommerce share, with 45.3% of the country’s retail sales occurring online this year. The UK will take the No. 2 spot, with a 35.9% share, followed by South Korea, where 30.1% of retail sales will be via ecommerce.

As digital fitness goes mainstream, leading brands Nike, lululemon athletica, Peloton, and Apple are trailblazing a path for lifestyle brands toward a more profitable future.

While others are struggling, luxury brands are taking a victory lap.

Nearly every modern consumer has at least some concern about the environment, but its influence on shopping behavior is far more nuanced.

Until last year, worldwide ecommerce sales growth had always exceeded 20% per annum.

This year is like no other. Retailers of all sizes will need to react to supply chain woes to get a better handle on their cost of goods and therefore margins.

There will be about 94 million users on TikTok by the end of this year. As the platform pushes further into commerce in the US, our Reimagining Retail podcast team weighed in on which communities are having the greatest impact.

Macroeconomic headwinds are sweeping through retail markets worldwide, and ecommerce conditions are deteriorating rapidly, especially in mature markets. Globally, total retail is chugging along, but the big stories will be around ecommerce growth in emerging economies.

Google Shopping stands to benefit from external factors that will draw more shoppers to its platforms.

A guide to the retail mobile app features consumers value the most, and a ranking of how 10 leading US multicategory retailers stack up.

Robot colleagues on the rise: As robots enter more industries, startups are developing systems for the bots to work collaboratively with humans. Economic turbulence will help and hinder the movement.

This year, Amazon will see $12.52 billion in Prime Day sales worldwide, per our estimates. The US will account for more than 60% of Prime Day sales, but outside of the US, sales growth will be stronger as Amazon brings the shopping event to more international markets.

US retail ecommerce sales will top $1 trillion this year, up 9.4% from $960.44 billion last year. Come 2026, more than $1 in $5 spent on retail will come from ecommerce channels.

Since the start of the pandemic, Shopify has emerged as a leading ecommerce platform for merchants large and small.

The last three months of the year used to be a make-or-break period for retailers, but consumers in Latin America are now spreading out their digital purchases over the entire year.

On today's episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss how shoppers and retailers use Google and why the company's previous investments in the ecommerce space haven't worked out so well. Then for "Pop-Up Rankings," we rank the top three winning Google shopping features and discuss one feature we expect to fizzle out. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analysts Sky Canaves and Yory Wurmser.

Whitney Birdsall, senior forecasting analyst, worked on our latest forecast for US retail and ecommerce sales in Q2. She tells us how recent market turmoil, supply chain issues, and economic uncertainty could impact our forecast, which measures the total value of all the merchandise sold on ecommerce platforms

Prime Day will once again prove to be a major retail event this year, not just for Amazon but for its competitors as well.

An infographic guide for marketers looking to understand today’s retail market

In a survey of marketing decision-makers from 163 leading organizations, more than 80% say they plan to increase their retail media spending next year, showing the popularity and continued growth of the channel.