Major retailers and shippers also want to speed up things. Walmart and Target plan to expand nighttime operations, while UPS and FedEx aim to do the same, according to the White House announcement .
"Every little bit helps," Marissa Silva, editor-in-chief of Toy Insider magazine, told CBS MoneyWatch. "So if they're having the L.A.-Long Beach ports open 24 hours, they're saying that they can unload an additional 3,500 containers a day. And every day matters — right?
Start Christmas shopping now, per Federal Reserve warning
A Federal Reserve official is warning people to get started on their Christmas shopping now, as supply delays and price hikes are expected over the holiday season and procrastinating on purchasing some gifts — especially toys and electronics — could end up hitting your wallet.
Will visual search bring eyeballs to Google Shopping? – RetailWire
One method involves the use of Google Lens, an image recognition technology that lets a smartphone camera conduct digital searches by identifying real objects.
In a blog entry , Bill Ready, president of commerce, payments & NBU at Google, said, "Whether it's an image that you see online, a photo you saved on your phone or something in the real world that catches your eye, Google Lens makes the products you see instantly shoppable."
Tattooed couple take stolen credit card on shopping spree: Olmsted Falls Police Blotter -
A resident called police at 6:11 p.m. Oct. 13 to say that someone had taken a credit card from his mailbox and activated it, charging $1,100. He was refunded that money.
However, he had just seen the thief walking on Sprague Road toward Columbia Road. The caller said the woman is in her 30s and has blond hair and a long-sleeve tattoo on her arm. He recognized her from a video he viewed when she used his card.
AI shopping assistant Karma raises $25 million in Series A funding led by Target Global –
AI shopping assistant and shopping network Karma announced that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Target Global followed by MoreTech Ventures, with participation from existing investors including NFX and Altair Capital.
"Karma started with a very simple need: just knowing when something goes on sale in your size and color in real time,” Jonathan Friedman, Karma CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch in an interview. “The idea is originally from my wife.
Business Highlights: TikTok shopping, rallying stocks
NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok, an app best known for dancing videos with 1 billion users worldwide, has also become a shopping phenomenon.
Stocks rallied on Wall Street Thursday as the market shook off several days of wobbly trading. The S&P 500 jumped 1.7%, its biggest gain since March. The wave of buying built on momentum from a day earlier, when the market broke a three-day losing streak.
Strategies for shopping and shipping this holiday season
‘As seen on TikTok’: App becomes shopping phenom | WANE 15
NEW YORK (AP) — Near the Twizzlers and Sour Patch Kids at It’Sugar are random items — fidget toys, fruit-shaped soft jelly candies — that earned a spot on the candy store’s shelves because they went viral on TikTok.
A flood of videos last year showed people biting into the fruit gummies’ plastic casing, squirting artificially colored jelly from their mouths. Store staffers urged the company to stock up, and the gummies did so well that It'Sugar decided to make TikTok part of its sales strategy.
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