Author: Cyrus Pari

Retail mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are waking up in the second half of 2025, setting the stage for a busy turn to 2026. The deal landscape refl [...]

How AI Is Reinventing Vendor Oversight Amid Labor Shortages

Retailers today are under more pressure than ever. Labor shortages are tightening staffing capacity, third-party vendor networks are growing increasin [...]

Standing Out in a Crowded Market: How Specialty Retailers Can Thrive in a Mobile-First, Value-Driven Era

Retail today is dynamic. It’s fast-paced. And it’s online. Product discovery often begins on mobile devices, and social commerce is booming. Shoppers [...]

Trump Extends China Tariff Deadline by 90 Days

President Donald Trump on Monday delayed high U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods from snapping back into place for another 90 days, a White House official [...]

Bridging the Gap Between Circular Ambition and Action

Global material consumption has more than tripled since 1970. Amidst increased awareness of our environmental impact, many of us are striving to live [...]

Why Mobile Gaming Belongs in Every Retail Media Plan

It may still be summer, but the start of the holiday shopping season is growing closer by the day. According to research from Unity, over a third of h [...]

How Retailers Are Using Delivery Personas to Build Customer Loyalty

E-commerce continues its steady climb, growing 6.1 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2025, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The under [...]

Supplier Diversification Begins With Digital Visibility

When the United States threatened a 50 percent duty on every T-shirt and pair of jeans sewn in Lesotho this spring, U.S. buyers cancelled orders overn [...]

Going From Disruption to Business-as-Usual

The concept of operational excellence isn’t new. Retailers have been striving to achieve efficiencies in their operating models since their inception. [...]