merchant

Firms offering merchant cash advances promise quick relief: cash in 24 hours or less, easy applications, past credit troubles no problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Heather Schwedel spoke with a Home Depot merchant to get the inside scoop on how these giant skeletons came to be.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

Jauregui turned to merchant cash advances—MCAs for short—a legal, largely unregulated financing industry marketed on social media as a business lifeline: Cash in 24 hours or less.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Increasingly, small businesses like Brushstrokes + Beverages — with little capital to use as collateral against a traditional loan — are turning to nonbank finance companies for merchant cash advances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Actually, she’s playing the coal merchant like a cheap violin.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Store merchants historically negotiated directly with consumer brands for shelf placement, and when centralized ad teams tried selling digital banner ads online, merchants worried their trade budgets would disappear, former employees said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

President Harley Finkelstein called the report “the perfect example” of Shopify’s ability to deliver on what merchants need today while investing in agentic commerce and other technologies of the future.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

In the run-up to the protests on Saturday, the Paris police commissioner, Patrice Faure, heightened anxieties by advising merchants to hire security guards, saying police alone could not “guarantee the protection of every business.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

ByteDance has said merchants can’t buy their way into better recommendations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Pastry merchants nearby held trays of dough balls soaked in rose hip syrup, and cardamom cakes served with hot tea from Yunnan.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri