Author: Cyrus Pari
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Walgreens Names New CEO as Company Goes Private
Walgreens Boots Alliance is officially privately held with a new chief executive who formerly ran office supply retailer Staples. The announcement coi [...]
Tackling the Biggest Retail Cybercriminal Threats: Scattered Spider and Beyond
Organized crime groups pose a significant threat to the retail sector by exploiting system vulnerabilities to gain access to sensitive customer inform [...]
Back-to-School Shopping Scams Are Surging: What Merchants Need to Know
Back-to-school shopping brings a welcome spike in volume for retailers, however, this annual event (or should we say preparation frenzy) has become pr [...]
Sweating Through Summer to Save the Holidays: Tariffs, Tight Timelines, and the Warehouse Crunch
It’s still iced coffee season. Pavement is shimmering in the late summer heat. However, inside warehouses across the country, teams are already in hol [...]
Prime Day 2025: What it Really Told Us About How People Shop
Prime Day started as a day of deals: a digital stampede of timers, discounts and one-click purchases. But this year, something shifted. It’s not just [...]
Schylling’s CEO on 50 Years of Toy Nostalgia and Product Innovation
In episode 489 of Total Retail Talks, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews Paul Weingard, president and CEO of Schylling, the iconic toy company mark [...]
Kroger Announces Corporate Layoffs, Structural Changes
Kroger will lay off nearly 1,000 corporate employees as part of structural changes to its administrative teams across the U.S., multiple news outlets [...]
Labeling Tariffs Isn’t Political. Hiding Them Could Be.
America’s increasingly chaotic tariff policies have hit its businesses hard. In an effort to explain the resulting unpredictable pricing to customers, [...]
From Checkout to Crisis: Subcontractor Risk in Retail Contracts
Today’s retail operations rely on more than just products or e-commerce design. Behind the scenes, fulfillment providers depend on regional couriers, [...]
Don’t Wait: Why Holiday Campaign Planning Needs to Start Now
For consumers, late summer might feel early to talk about the holidays. However, retailers know the holiday season no longer starts in November — and [...]