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

In 2014, merchant cash advances nationwide totaled about $8.6 billion, according to one federal agency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Key questions would be on product or merchant overlap, plus how the Instacart brand integrates into the broader acquirer’s brand,” the Wedbush analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Now the original home stood in the middle with various additions, rooms, and wings stacked and piled around it, like a merchant trying to carry too many bags at once.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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

Including receipts from petroleum, oilseed and grain merchants, wholesale sales for August fell 1% from the month before, while inventories on the same basis nudged up 0.2%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

None of the merchants had ever seen it themselves, of course, but they had heard, in their travels, of some far-off legend.

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