How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet(not-ship.com)
897 points by sighborg | 684 comments
A Not-Ship newsletter article examining how Amazon's marketplace policies drive up prices across other online retailers.
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15 stories tagged retail, newest first.
French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack(uk.finance.yahoo.com)
124 points by thinkcontext | 97 comments
AFP news article on Yahoo Finance about French supermarket chains whose refrigerators were shut down by an 'unprecedented' cyberattack.
Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses(reuters.com)
43 points by salaryman777 | 4 comments
Reuters article about a cyberattack on French supermarket chain Intermarché in which hackers heated store fridges, causing fires and food losses.
ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers(bbc.co.uk)
58 points by helsinkiandrew | 39 comments
BBC News article reporting that users of the ASOS shopping app received push notifications apparently sent by hackers.
Barcodes are about to go extinct(thehustle.co)
61 points by rmason | 92 comments
The Hustle article by Katherine Laidlaw explaining why traditional UPC barcodes are about to be phased out in retail.
The Evolution of Vending Machines(saturdayeveningpost.com)
33 points by ohjeez | 11 comments
A Saturday Evening Post article on the history of vending machines, from ancient holy water dispensers to modern frozen meal machines.
Beware Management Consultants(about.iceland.co.uk)
553 points by KolmogorovComp | 149 comments
A page from Iceland Foods' company history section recounting the 2001–2005 'Dark Ages' period and a warning about management consultants.
Costco is the anti-Amazon(phenomenalworld.org)
521 points by bookofjoe | 506 comments
Phenomenal World analysis essay by Benjamin Y. Fong titled "The Anti-Amazon," in its Labor & Logistics section, about Costco as a contrast to Amazon.
Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero(github.com)
346 points by trueduke | 316 comments
GitHub repository for TagTinker, a Flipper Zero app for researching electronic shelf label price tags over infrared, with an Android companion.
Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices(theguardian.com)
475 points by bookofjoe | 652 comments
Guardian investigation finding that Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often charge more at checkout than their posted shelf prices.
Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything(wsj.com)
386 points by JumpCrisscross | 490 comments
Wall Street Journal article on how businesses struggle to set prices six months into Trump's tariffs; the capture shows a captcha verification page.
Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts(petapixel.com)
364 points by mikece | 485 comments
PetaPixel article reporting that Home Depot faces a lawsuit alleging it secretly used facial recognition technology on self-checkout cameras.
Long live American Science and Surplus(milwaukeerecord.com)
374 points by thinkalone | 104 comments
Milwaukee Record article about the American Science & Surplus store and its appeal for community help to keep operating.
Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left(fortune.com)
442 points by andrewfromx | 719 comments
Fortune article reporting the Port of L.A. executive director's warning that retailers have about seven weeks of full inventories left amid the U.S.-China trade war.
Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores(gizmodo.com)
417 points by walterbell | 571 comments
Gizmodo article reporting that Amazon Fresh grocery stores are moving away from the 'Just Walk Out' cashierless checkout technology.