At Google I/O on Tuesday, Google introduced Universal Cart, its agentic hub for managing shopping in one place. The tech giant also announced updates to its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and teased ...

Google used its I/O 2026 event to introduce Universal Cart, a new AI-powered shopping experience designed to work across Search, Gemini, YouTube, Gmail, and participating merchants. The announcement ...

It’s the three-row SUV of big-box retail. Target’s bold red shopping cart has always anchored customers inside a Target store, promising a middle-class fancy experience. For the next few years, Target ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Where should I park my shopping cart while browsing a grocery section and/or reading ingredient labels? I park my cart in the middle of the aisle, thereby allowing other shoppers to ...

A surge in energy prices caused by the Iran war is rippling through global supply chains for common consumer goods, making materials like chemicals and plastics more expensive and pushing up ...

Like everything at Costco, the shopping carts are extra-large. Shelby Blessie isn’t. At 4 feet, 11 inches tall she cranes her head to peer over the top of her cart as she maneuvers through a sea of ...

The past seven years have arguably been the most tumultuous in recent retail history: Covid, major technology changes, tariffs, and higher interest rates have reshaped buying and selling in the sector ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Occasionally, when I arrive at a grocery store and walk to the entrance, someone who has finished loading their car will ask me if I want their now ...

Sylvan Goldman, a businessman and Oklahoma native, was working for a California grocery wholesaler after World War I when he became fascinated by the new “supermarkets” that put everything under one ...

A new food cart pod is gearing up to debut in a former Northeast Portland car repair shop. News tips Business opening or closing in your neighborhood? Email the reporter at vnocera@oregonian.com. Once ...