Insights & Feeds Trends of eCommerce Latest news & headlines about eCommerce companies and brick-and-mortar retailers expanding their businesses online. Retail TouchPointsSecuring Deliveries Year-Round: Combatting Porch Pirates with Smart Security Solutions December 18, 2025Despite thousands of deliveries being made daily, one issue for homeowners and businesses remains a concern: package thieves, also known as porch pirates. The rise of online shopping has led to a significant increase in deliveries, making unattended packages an easy target for thieves. In the last year alone, an estimated 58 million Americans fell […]Amazon to Transform Food Scraps into Chicken Feed In-Store at Whole Foods December 17, 2025Beginning in 2027, Amazon will deploy on-site food waste conversion technology in Whole Foods Market stores that will turn fruit and vegetable scraps from back-of-house operations into a nutrient-rich chicken feed ingredient intended for the supermarket’s private-label egg suppliers. Amazon will use the new Mill Commercial devices, similar to consumer waste devices from Mill, to […] Digital Commerce 360Akamai, Visa partner to add identity and fraud controls for agentic commerce December 17, 2025Akamai Technologies and Visa have formed a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening identity verification, authentication and fraud prevention as autonomous AI agents increasingly interact with online merchants. The companies said the collaboration integrates Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai’s edge-based behavioral intelligence, user recognition and bot mitigation capabilities. They designed the combined to help merchants […]UniUni expands North American delivery network December 17, 2025UniUni said it significantly expanded its North American footprint in 2025, reporting sharp gains in geographic coverage, shipment volume and funding as ecommerce merchants seek faster and more transparent delivery alternatives. UniUni said its delivery network now covers 65% of the U.S. and 80% of Canada, reaching more than 500 North American cities. “It was […]
