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Retailers face more potential supply-chain shocks as Canadian dockworkers go on strike: That’s in addition to the still unresolved tensions between the International Longshoremen’s Association and East and Gulf Coast ports.

A major dockworkers strike seems increasingly likely: The disruption will begin October 1, just as several retailers begin launching holiday promotions.

Lactalis will acquire the US business and Sodiaal will buy the Canadian unit. The deal, which includes two manufacturing facilities in the US and one in Canada, is expected to close next year. Why is this happening? While General Mills’ North American yogurt business contributed about $1.5 billion to its fiscal 2024 net sales, that unit is neither high growth nor high margin.

Roblox wants to be an ecommerce platform: After a pilottesting physical goods sales with Walmart and E.l.f. Beauty, the gaming platform sees big potential in online sales.

Our first-ever worldwide forecast for retail media ad spending shows enduring momentum and lots of good news for Amazon and other ecommerce platforms around the world.

Ads managers are the main driver of programmatic direct ad spending, which has become the primary method of programmatic advertising in Canada in social media and connected TV.

Retail media will make huge gains this year in Canada. Our first-ever forecast for retail media ad spending in Canada and our joint survey of ad buyers (conducted with IAB Canada) highlight the latest developments.

Consumers’ adoption of AI banking chatbots varies by country. Though the US and UK promote their tech-friendly banking environments, the geographically concentrated, Big-Six-focused Canadian market has taken the lead in embracing this much-hyped tech.

Amazon can stake a claim as one of Canada’s top mass merchants, even without having physical stores. It has reached this milestone after more than three years of accelerated retail ecommerce in the country.

Retail media’s positive hype is real. We expect it will disrupt the digital advertising landscape worldwide. In Canada, a handful of players—led by Amazon, Walmart, and Loblaw—have turned it into the fastest-growing ad segment in the country, and at scale.

On today's episode, we discuss the implications of the Federal Trade Commission thinking Amazon tricked customers into signing up for automatically renewing Prime subscriptions, whether it makes sense for companies to force livestream shopping on Americans, if speciality stores really work, the impact of Facebook and Instagram restricting news access in Canada, whether reduced inflation can save the day, what a real work-life balance looks like, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian, vice president of Briefings Stephanie Taglianetti, and analyst Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf.

Viewership in Canada is changing, as more eyeballs turn to connected TV and digital video for long-form content.

Amazon will capture more than half (51.1%) of all retail ecommerce sales in Germany this year, according to our forecast. Canada will have the second-highest share of Amazon ecommerce sales among the countries we track, at 41.5%, followed by the US, UK, Japan, and Mexico.

Affirm can maintain its market lead by working with the country’s largest etailer, and Amazon can use a growing payment method to avoid bleeding customers to rivals.