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Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods Grew by 1.1% from January to September 2026

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Scope 3 Is Not Primarily a Reporting Problem. It Is a Supply Chain Data Problem

Scope 3 is fundamentally a supply-chain data architecture problem. Credibility depends on boundaries, activity data, factor governance, allocation, lineage, and explicit uncertainty—not on a more polished reporting layer. The post Scope 3 I

Borderlands Mexico: US trucking crackdown raises concerns over freight disruptions

This week in Borderlands Mexico: US trucking crackdown raises concerns over freight disruptions; M2 Global Logistics launches in Houston; and Cutter & Buck opens new distribution center in Texas. The post Borderlands Mexico: US trucking cra

Sellers, Check Yourselves Quickly! Another Peak-Season Hit Product Has Blown Up

A weekly infringement roundup.

Many factories "have orders but struggle to make money"! Yet Aukey raked in 1.1 billion a year on this platform

Quite a few domestic home furnishing companies have already found a path to break through:

No signs of truckload capacity recovering

Many expected a recovering truckload market after months of rate inflation. The data suggests the opposite. The post No signs of truckload capacity recovering appeared first on FreightWaves.

What Daimler’s Finance And Global Chiefs Revealed About Diesel, Driverless Trucks, And The Future Of The Industry

On a rainy Saturday morning in Charlotte, inside the brand new North American headquarters of Daimler Truck Financial Services, four of the company’s senior leaders traded the usual press-conference script for something closer to a fireside

Supply Chain Sustainability Software Is Moving From Disclosure to Operational Decision-Making

Sustainability technology is moving from disclosure infrastructure toward operational decision support. Carbon and ESG data become strategically relevant only when they change sourcing, transportation, facility, product, or supplier decisio

From 651 people to 4 people! Another veteran major factory in Shenzhen enters bankruptcy liquidation

Weekly major events roundup.

E-commerce Weekly Report: Double 11 Shopping Festival Kicks Off in Full Force; WeChat Launches Short Drama Platform; Three Sheep's Comeback Countdown

Luxury Shoppers Put Their Money Where Their Feet Are

A banana-shaped heel is an unusual place to look for evidence of consumer spending discipline. But in luxury retail, financial restraint can apparently come with very adventurous footwear. There’s growing interest in eccentric designer shoe

Shenzhen factory sellers are making a fortune overseas by "borrowing Hong Kong to go global" plus AI

Mainland enterprises' strength combined with Hong Kong's advantages is aggressively winning orders overseas.

Why Depop is putting music at the center of its marketing, collaborating with Zara Larsson and Olivia Rodrigo

Peer-to-peer resale platform Depop is trying to differentiate itself from the competition through the power of music. To date, it has collaborated on drops with the likes of Kacey Musgraves, Zara Larsson and Olivia Rodrigo.

Overseas-expanding company Transsion Holdings listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with net profit up 46% year-on-year last year

Anker sold 63.62 million in a year! This new platform opens up to domestic entities for onboarding

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Why are soaring oil shipping costs pushing up prices?

Record tanker rates are raising fuel costs and adding inflationary pressure to goods transported around the world. The post Why are soaring oil shipping costs pushing up prices? appeared first on Inside Retail Asia.

BREAKING: Texas judge upholds nuclear verdict against C.H. Robinson

The nuclear verdict against C.H. Robinson in Texas has been affirmed. The post BREAKING: Texas judge upholds nuclear verdict against C.H. Robinson appeared first on FreightWaves.

New York Fed Finds Surging Costs Turn Executive Outlook Negative

Service sector firms in New York State and nearby areas became pessimistic about the business outlook in early October, for the first time since December 2025, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said in its October “Business Leaders Surve

Acorns Acquires Frich to Scale Financial Education

Acorns has expanded its financial education community by acquiring Frich, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release. Frich is a community where young Americans learn about money from each other, while Acorns is a financial wel

Marqeta and Coinbase Take Stablecoin Spending Mainstream

Marqeta’s enterprise customers can now offer stablecoin-backed cards powered by Coinbase, the companies said in a Friday (Oct. 16) press release. This offering is enabled by a new collaboration that integrates Marqeta’s card issuing platfor

American Express launches framework to verify AI shopping agent purchases

American Express has published a new framework that can help card issuers verify purchases made by artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping agents. The payments company released its Intent Intelligence framework on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Wi

Upgrade’s Bank Ambitions Show How FinTech Growth Expands Choices

As FinTechs scale, they bring banks more deposits, loans, transactions and fees while gaining more choice over which institutions provide the funding and infrastructure behind them. Upgrade facilitated more than $53 billion in credit throug

Federal Judge Denies Gemini and CFTC Bid to Erase 2025 Settlement

A federal judge refused to overturn a $5 million settlement that cryptocurrency exchange Gemini reached with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in January 2025 and has already paid, CoinDesk reported Friday (Oct. 16). The CFTC has sin

Trump Task Force Orders Report on AI Dangers

President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence (AI) task force, the Super Intelligence Force, will commission a report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to evaluate potential dangers of the technology, Blo