Category: Retail News
Try it Here, Buy it There: How Proof-First Shopping is Reshaping the Holidays
2026 shopping trends have already started shaping consumer behavior. There’s nostalgia shopping, an emotion-driven trend where a consumer buys product [...]
Spirit Christmas Expands its Store Count to 44
Spirit Christmas is expanding this year, giving consumers even more places to shop for seasonal decor. The retail chain is the holiday-focused offshoo [...]
Are Retailers Ready for AI to Foot the Bill? How Payments Infrastructure Must Adapt for Agentic Commerce
Artificial intelligence is helping shoppers find their next favorite products, but will they start letting it check out too? That’s looking more and m [...]
Retail’s Next AI Imperative: Customer Experience Observability
Retailers worldwide are deploying artificial intelligence across customer service, allowing them to handle interactions at a speed and scale that wasn [...]
The Outfit Looks Good. But Will it Fit?
Agentic artificial intelligence is getting better at helping shoppers picture a purchase. Generative virtual try-on can place a dress on a shopper’s p [...]
Retail Customers Are Paying a ‘Silent VAT Tax.’ How Can You Help?
A new era of innovation has arrived. U.S. stocks and bonds are tokenizing, as are most asset classes. Accredited, institutional and retail participant [...]
The Best Defense is a Good Offense: A Vendor Contract Checklist for Retailers
For retailers juggling day-to-day operations, reviewing vendor contracts can easily fall down the priority list. However, the terms of those agreement [...]
Walmart to Invest $6B in Supply Chain Automation
Walmart has announced that it will invest about $6 billion during the next several years to expand automated technologies with technology partner Symb [...]
The Golden Quarter’s Hidden Margin Game: Getting Gifting Right
Every golden quarter, retailers place the same high-stakes bet. How much gifting stock is enough? Gift packs sit at the sharpest edge of this trade-of [...]
Why Cross-Channel Connectivity is Retail Media’s Missing Infrastructure
For a long time, retail media barely registered as marketing. Budgets often sat with trade or sales teams rather than the marketing department. It’s g [...]