October 8, 2025
- Amazon is enjoying success with its Prime Big Deal Days event, with shoppers primarily buying apparel and shoes, household essentials, home goods, and beauty. However, nearly half (48%) of shoppers polled indicated that ongoing tariffs had affected their event spend (via Chain Store Age).
- Temu is under examination, by a German office, over concerns that it may be influencing the pricing of third-party merchants. “We are investigating the suspicion that Temu could impose inadmissible requirements on merchants’ pricing on the German marketplace,” said office president Andreas Mundt
(via Reuters). - Costco is attracting younger customers, according to an internal report. The warehouse club indicated that nearly half of members who signed up with a new membership in the three months ending Aug. 31 were under the age of 40 (via FOX Business).
- Johnson & Johnson was ordered, by a Los Angeles jury, to pay $966 to a plaintiff after the company was found liable in a suit alleging that its talc-based products could, in some rare cases, lead to cancer. The company stopped selling talc-based baby powder stateside in 2020 (via CNN Business).
- Christmas retailers are warning of a coming inventory shortage pertaining to artificial Christmas trees, lights, wreaths, and other holiday decor items. National Tree Company CEO Chris Butler said, “We are definitely going to see a short supply this year. So if you’re a consumer and you are in the market for Christmas goods this year, I would definitely act now and get ahead of the curve” (via CNBC).
- Domino’s is embarking on its first major brand refresh in 13 years. New employee uniforms, pizza boxes, redesigned signage, and marketing campaigns are on the immediate horizon (via CNN Business).