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The online mattress industry promised a more honest shopping experience. We may have gotten the opposite instead.

Sketchy mattress review websites have replaced the sleazy store salesman.

By Jason Del Rey

Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake is coming to the Code conference

Meet the founder behind a rare e-commerce success story.

By Peter Kafka

A former Walmart executive’s lawsuit claims the retailer has been inflating e-commerce growth numbers

Tri Huynh, a former business development executive, says he was fired for raising concerns over the company’s practices.

By Jason Del Rey

TheSkimm is raising $12 million from Google Ventures and other investors to build its subscription business

The startup has a newsletter with seven million subscribers, but it wants more revenue sources.

By Peter Kafka

Warby Parker is valued at $1.75 billion after a pre-IPO investment of $75 million

The company has now raised nearly $300 million in total.

By Jason Del Rey

Walmart will offer grocery delivery in more than 100 metro areas amid pressure from Amazon, Target and Instacart

The company already offers grocery pickup at 1,200 of its stores.

By Jason Del Rey

Stitch Fix made a big addition to its business that won’t show up in its Q2 financial results

The new feature — called Extras — signals where the company is headed.

By Jason Del Rey

Senator Chuck Schumer says the world would be a ‘worse place’ without Amazon

On Recode Decode, Schumer says he’s "sympathetic" to tech giants like Facebook and Amazon.

By Eric Johnson

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Watch Recode’s full interview with Milk Bar founder and CEO Christina Tosi from SXSW

What does it take to build a business that not only delights customers but keeps them coming back again and again?

By Meghann Farnsworth

Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Joe Tsai are pumping $20 million into Rent the Runway through their investment firm

The deal is said to value the New York City startup at nearly $800 million.

By Jason Del Rey

The snacks startup NatureBox laid off a third of its staff — it now needs a new investment to stay afloat

The downside of the subscription box fad.

By Jason Del Rey

Amazon is taking aim at Walmart by offering a 54 percent discount on Prime memberships for Medicaid recipients

It’s the company’s latest move to court lower-income shoppers.

By Jason Del Rey

Amazon’s Ring buy gives it the same number of acquisitions this year as Apple or Google

The online retailer’s acquisitions by the numbers.

By Rani Molla

What did Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso learn from failure?

Amoruso, now the founder and CEO of Girlboss, says she told investors that her new company is "Oprah for millennials and Supreme with boobs."

By Eric Johnson

Amazon, Walmart and Target are squeezing traditional grocery chains on price

A tough environment for local grocers is getting tougher.

By Jason Del Rey and Rani Molla

BuzzFeed has a new business model, so it’s selling its own line of kitchen tools at Walmart

Tasty spatulas and other gadgets are coming to 4,000 stores.

By Peter Kafka

Nordstrom co-President Erik Nordstrom and OneMarket CEO Don Kingsborough are speaking at Code Commerce at Shoptalk

They’ll join the leaders of Rent the Runway, DoorDash and The Cheesecake Factory at the March 20 event.

By Jason Del Rey

Square’s Venmo competitor — the Cash app — had more than seven million customers in December

That’s ... pretty big?

By Jason Del Rey

Hollar — the dollar store mobile app worth $200 million — is looking for a new CEO

Founder and current CEO David Yeom is helping to lead the search.

By Jason Del Rey

Instacart says it mistakenly withheld tips from some of its workers

It also overcharged some customers.

By Jason Del Rey

Glossier’s investors have pumped $52 million more into the popular beauty brand

The New York City-based startup has now raised nearly $90 million in venture funding.

By Jason Del Rey

Amazon plans to open as many as six more cashierless Amazon Go stores this year

New futuristic convenience stores could appear in Seattle and Los Angeles.

By Jason Del Rey

Rent the Runway, DoorDash and The Cheesecake Factory are coming to Code Commerce at Shoptalk

Jason Del Rey and Kara Swisher will be back in Las Vegas to host the March 20 evening event.

By Jason Del Rey

Bitcoin prices are back up 30 percent over the last week

South Korea’s finance regulator said the country would support "normal" cryptocurrency trading.

By Rani Molla

Nike’s latest Air Jordan sneaker ‘drop’ showcased the potential of Snapchat commerce

Shopify and Darkstore helped bring the in-app shopping experience to life.

By Jason Del Rey

J.Crew has hired the Starbucks executive who transformed the coffee chain into a tech innovator

Adam Brotman has joined the apparel retailer as president and chief experience officer.

By Jason Del Rey

Watch the full interview: Brit Morin and theSkimm’s Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg talked about reaching their audiences

It’s not all about social media.

By Recode Staff

While Amazon doubles down on Alexa, it’s laying off hundreds in other parts of its consumer business

The cuts mark a rare pullback for the tech goliath.

By Jason Del Rey

GrubHub’s stock price is soaring after it announced a giant partnership with Taco Bell and KFC — and crushed earnings

Taco Bell’s parent company will also invest $200 million into GrubHub.

By Jason Del Rey

Flight Club — the retail Mecca for sneakerheads — is merging with the GOAT sneaker app

The combination will create a hybrid retailer with a valuation of about $250 million.

By Jason Del Rey

The president of Walmart-owned Jet is becoming a venture capitalist with an early investor in Jet

Liza Landsman will join the venture firm NEA in New York City.

By Jason Del Rey

Alphabet’s drone delivery division has added an Amazon veteran to its leadership team

The hiring of Faisal Masud, most recently Staples’ CTO, could signal that Project Wing is close to graduating out of the company’s ‘moonshot factory.’

By Jason Del Rey
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