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Amazon to Close All Amazon Fresh and Go Stores
Amazon.com is closing its branded brick-and-mortar grocery stores, with the company consolidating its physical strategy under the Whole Foods name, re [...]
SharkNinja CEO Mark Barrocas on Building Strong Consumer Advocacy
At the National Retail Federation Big Show in New York City earlier this month, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan spoke with Mark Barrocas, CEO of SharkNinja [...]
Stadium Goods’ Strategy Behind a 268% Jump in Email Revenue
Stadium Goods ,a premium sneaker and streetwear marketplace, saw email revenue jump 268 percent year-over-year this Black Friday. That kind of lift di [...]
3 Ways Agentic AI is Transforming Retail Advertising
Shoppers today encounter ads almost everywhere — from social media feeds and TV commercials to grocery store displays. This creates tremendous opportu [...]
2026: The Year In-Store Media Becomes Real-Time, Responsive, and Radically More Creative
Retailers spent the past few years modernizing e-commerce and loyalty programs. 2026 is the year in-store experiences get the same treatment. Two shif [...]
How Hybrid AI Will Transform Payments in 2026
Payments innovation is no longer about simply adopting artificial intelligence. It’s about pairing intelligent systems with human-in-the-loop accounta [...]
How Groupe Dynamite is Personalizing its POS With Agentic AI
At the National Retail Federation Big Show in New York City earlier this month, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviewed Dave Stevens, chief technology [...]
Nike to Lay Off 775 Employees as it Accelerates ‘Automation’ at US Distribution Centers
Nike is cutting 775 employees as the company looks to boost its bottom line and accelerate its use of “automation,” CNBC has learned. The layoffs, whi [...]
The New Retail Reality: Using Site-Level Intelligence to Build More Resilient Supply Chains in 2026
It’s undeniable that global supply chains contain a multitude of ethical, labor and environmental risks, and that these are unavoidable in sourcing an [...]
AI Agents: The New Shoppers Changing Commerce Forever
We’re entering a new phase of commerce, and it’s a big one. Shoppers are starting to hand the work over to artificial intelligence agents. Not just th [...]