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Pornography, patio furniture and an at-home coronavirus test are among the odd assortment of goods and services people are purchasing with the cryptocurrency.

The frenzy for the troubled retailer’s stock has been a head-scratcher for the analysts who try to determine a company’s value.

Jaydyn Carr of San Antonio made $3,200 on shares from GameStop this week that his mother bought him in 2019 for about $60.

A month after the holiday season, gamers are still contending with scalpers, bots and immense demand as they hunt for elusive devices.

Retailers have stopped carrying its products, though Mike Lindell, the founder and face of MyPillow, blamed “cancel culture” and said he didn’t think it would last.

A website called Not Amazon was created to drive sales to more than 4,000 independent stores in four cities. The initiative aims to keep expanding.

The election, expected early next year, will be one of the few times that employees of the e-commerce giant have had an opportunity to decide whether to join a union.

Retailers are turning to the filtering technology popularized by Snapchat to add a real-world feel to online shopping.

The season is adding pressure on retailers, strained by a pandemic surge in e-commerce and limited by shippers, to deliver gifts on time.

Foot traffic was down considerably and internet sales surged during a holiday weekend altered by the coronavirus.

Empty stores are turning into fulfillment centers and the market for warehouse space is booming, as the pandemic rockets the retail industry into its e-commerce future.

Margrethe Vestager, a European Commission vice president, said Amazon was unfairly using data to box out smaller competitors.