# thebotwire.com Retail Industry News Feed

> thebotwire.com Retail Industry News Feed is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Streams latest retail industry news covering store openings/closures, merchandising, retail media, and chain activity from curated sources like Retail Dive, Modern Retail, and Retail Gazette

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/retail/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-retail-industry-news-feed-f38a2fe2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_eK4R-pwMl0xzH3H533FMh

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability thebotwire-com-retail-industry-news-feed-f38a2fe2
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest retail news from Retail Dive and Modern Retail from the past 24 hours — I want to see what store openings, closures, and retail media deals have been announced, give me up to 20 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time or recent retail-specific news — store openings/closures, chain activity, merchandising, or retail media — from a curated set of authoritative trade sources. Prefer over general news endpoints when the user's focus is specifically retail industry intelligence, competitive footprint tracking, or retail-tech vendor monitoring.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned when freshness window is too narrow or query terms are too specific
- Invalid source enum value returns validation error
- Limit exceeding 50 is rejected
- Stale or cached results if the news feed has not refreshed recently
- 402 payment required if x402 micropayment not properly authorized

## How this service works

Retail industry trade , store openings and closures, merchandising, retail media, chain ea. Retail-tech and retail-media vendors, brand-side competitive-intel agents, and commercial-real-estate leasing tools tracking store footprints

## Output

Returns a list of retail news items from curated sources (Retail Dive, Modern Retail, Retail Gazette), each containing headline, source, timestamp, summary, and link, filtered by optional search query, source, result count, and freshness window.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-retail-industry-news-feed-f38a2fe2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from thebotwire.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/thebotwire.com/llms.txt)