About 37,000 retail-industry professionals are coming together this week to “revolutionize” the shopping experience with virtual reality, artificial intelligence and more.

Tiffany & Co. is telling consumers where its diamonds come from as the jeweler tries to become more transparent in a notoriously opaque industry.

As the U.S. government shutdown postpones the release of monthly agriculture data, forecasting firms are trying to plug the gap with their own crop estimates.