Bloomberg UK retail sales had their biggest drop in six months in June, adding to signs that the vote to leave the European Union is starting to bite. The volume of goods sold in stores and online dropped 0.9 percent, more than the 0.6 percent decline seen in a Bloomberg survey of economists, figures from the Office for National …

  New York / AP Macy’s is testing a mobile tool using artificial intelligence that lets shoppers get answers about the store they’re in — like where a particular brand is located or what’s in stock — that they would normally ask a sales associate face-to-face. The tool, which the nation’s largest department store chain calls a “mobile companion,” can be …

  Bloomberg India isn’t an easy place to build an e-commerce company. The vast, multilingual nation suffers from creaky infrastructure, a sometimes myopic bureaucracy and an ingrained distrust of the merchant class. Yet homegrown Flipkart Ltd. has managed the impossible with a blend of Silicon Valley smarts — its founders worked for Amazon.com Inc.; key hires were lured from the …