M-commerce sales will reach $314 billion and $200 billion more than four years ago. AmazonAMZN PrimeAMZN Day, which has not yet been announced in the U.S., may be the impetus for the start of holiday shopping and will significantly impact mobile purchasing with over 150 million app users.

Party City plans to open just 25 pop-up stores under its Halloween City banner this year as it navigates a holiday disrupted by the pandemic, according to a press release issued Tuesday.

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After its ride hailing business cratered at the beginning of the pandemic, Uber quickly pivoted to food delivery by showcasing its popular Uber Eats restaurant delivery service to millions of homebound customers.

While it’s no longer thought to be a primary source of transmission of the novel coronavirus, people are still thinking twice before interacting with public touch screens. Throughout retail, some are seeing voice-driven technology as a perfect solution that lets customers interact with automated kiosks while keeping their hands to themselves.

Amazon has disavowed a $500 “Prime Bike” launched by Echelon Fitness, saying it has no formal connection to the product. News of the bike’s launch earlier this week sent the stock price of Peleton tumbling, as traders anticipated Amazon’s entry into the growing home exercise market.

Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was originally published in 2003, with a slight update in 2012. Over the years, it’s been the most widely read — and argued over — feature in the history of the magazine (last year, the RS 500 got over 63 million views on the site). But no list is definitive — tastes change, new genres emerge, the history of music keeps being rewritten. So we decided to remake our greatest albums list from scratch.