Category: Retail News
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 [...]
The Future of Commerce Media Isn’t Retail. It’s Everywhere
To many parts of the advertising landscape, there’s the singular gravitational pull of retail media at the center. And then there’s commerce media, a [...]
lululemon Names First Chief AI and Technology Officer
lululemon on Tuesday announced that it has appointed Ranju Das as chief AI as technology officer, effective Sept. 2. In this newly created role, Das w [...]
In the Age of Digitization, Simplicity and Scale Are Retailers’ Tools to Success
From local businesses to popular big-box chains to luxury stores and everything in between, “success” looks vastly different for every retailer. Maint [...]