Category: Retail News
August Retail Sales Rise Amid Back-to-School and Inflation
Shoppers increased their spending at a better-than-expected pace in August from July, helped by back-to-school shopping, even as President Donald Trum [...]
Retail’s Race Against Time: Why Strategy Needs Slack, Sanity, and Smarter Execution
For retail technology leaders, the pressure of the holiday season doesn’t begin in November. It starts in Q1, builds in Q2, and peaks by August when m [...]
Preparing for Peak Season: How AI Can Help Retailers Boost Success
The holiday shopping season is the most demanding time of the year for retailers, however, it also represents the biggest opportunity to drive revenue [...]
Private Label Just Stole the Aisle
Private label isn’t playing backup anymore, it’s running the show. Once the bottom-shelf generic you bought with a sigh, today’s store brands are the [...]
5 Ways Retailers Can Reduce Porch Piracy
Consumers are shopping online more than ever before, turning residential doorsteps into busy delivery zones. Every day, millions of packages arrive at [...]
VF Corp to Sell Dickies to Bluestar Alliance for $600M
VF Corp has announced that it is selling its workwear brand Dickies for $600 million in cash to brand management company Bluestar Alliance. The deal c [...]
Squeezing Success: The Rise of Lemon Perfect
In episode 490 of Total Retail Talks, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews Yanni Hufnagel, founder and CEO of The Lemon Perfect Company, an organic l [...]
The Back-to-School Battlefield: How Unified Commerce Turns Chaos Into Confidence
Putting on new shoes, seeing old friends, and inching ever closer to adulthood: for many children, “back-to-school” is an event characterized by reluc [...]
Beyond the Box: How Subscription Brands Can Overcome Global Shipping Challenges
Type “unboxing” into YouTube and you’ll find thousands of videos, many with millions of views, revealing the contents of a package. What started as a [...]
Preventing Return Fraud Can Still Be Customer Centric
Fraud in retail is on the rise; retailers reported a whopping 93 percent increase in the average number of shoplifting incidents per year in 2023 vs. [...]