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Holiday 2026 Will Reward Retailers That Win Selective Shoppers and AI Discovery
Retail experts see a more selective, AI-guided holiday shopper in 2026, with sub-2% sales growth and winners decided by ...
Retail TouchPoints Sets Aug. 25 Webinar on Retailers’ AI Stack Ahead of Holiday 2026
Lowe's, Academy Sports + Outdoors, Bain and PwC executives are billed for a live discussion on where retail AI investmen...
C&A Brazil Bets on New Store Format as Sales Grow Double Digits, CEO Says
The retailer plans to convert at least 25 of its 341 stores a year to the open-facade Energia model and is expanding its...
Tim Hortons Launches Harry Potter Menu for Film Franchise's 25th Anniversary
The chain is marking 25 years of Harry Potter films and the annual Back to Hogwarts moment with house-themed donuts, Gol...
Argentina's Fashion Runway Now Depends on Logistics and Import Competition
Fashion figure Anamá says Argentina's textile sector is splitting between cheaper imports and struggling local producers...
Renzo Costa Plans Regional Franchise Expansion as Founder Rules Out Sale
Founder Marina Bustamante says the Peruvian leather-goods brand will expand through strategic local partners rather than...
Rolex Still Leads Luxury Watch Resales, but Its Grip Is Loosening: Chrono24 Data
New Chrono24 transaction data shows Rolex remains the top traded luxury watch brand in 2026, though its share has fallen...
Target Appoints Lowe’s Veteran Chandhu Nair as First Chief AI Officer
Target pairs the new AI role with an expanded UX leadership mandate, aiming to turn its $2 billion turnaround investment...
How Education-Led Field Reps Are Reshaping Retail Brand Trust
Brands in food, beverage and beauty are shifting field marketing from scripted selling to category education, as consume...
Glassy Waves Turns Uruguayan Surf Culture Into an Argentina Expansion
The self-funded surfwear label reports 142% revenue growth and a planned first Argentine store by early 2027 after openi...
White & Private Label Expo Makes New York Debut as Retailers Hunt a Sourcing Edge
A free two-day sourcing event at Manhattan's Javits Center on Sept 30–Oct 1 aims to connect retailers and e-commerce sel...
McKinsey: AI Purchasing and Price Sensitivity to Reshape Consumer-Facing Businesses
McKinsey points to AI-driven purchasing and rising price sensitivity as two forces that will change how consumers choose...
Food-at-Home Prices Fall in July, First Decline Since March
BLS data shows the first monthly drop in food-at-home prices since March, led by pork, dairy and produce, while annual g...
US Grocery Unit Sales Slip in July as Frozen and Refrigerated Aisles Buck the Trend
Circana data shows food and beverage units fell 0.9% in July, with produce, bakery and plant-based alternatives down whi...
GAO Report: Grocery Workers Rely Heavily on Medicaid and SNAP Despite Full-Time Hours
New federal data show wholesale and retail trade has one of the highest concentrations of workers receiving Medicaid or ...
Aldi Nord Adds High-Protein Pasta and Social-Media Favourites to Permanent Range
The discounter is making high-protein pasta, salami, Neapolitan-style pizza and mango sticky rice permanent parts of a r...
Academy Sports Adds Instacart Same-Day Delivery Across 300 Stores
The retailer is putting more than 300 stores in 21 states on Instacart's marketplace while promising in-store prices, ex...
Target Creates Chief AI Officer Role as Retail AI Leadership Goes C-Suite
Target names Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, following Walmart's high-paying AI executive push. The move tes...
Grocery Gauge: Industry Distress as Earnings Slip and Traffic Shifts
Supermarket News' monthly pulse check finds soft earnings, cooling inflation, and a surprising surge in fresh-format tra...
Kroger Hires Former Walmart Ecommerce VP Nate Faust as Chief Ecommerce Officer
Kroger names Nate Faust—co-founder of Jet.com and former Walmart ecommerce supply chain chief—as EVP and Chief Ecommerce...
U.S. Importers Push July Container Volumes to Record 2.47M TEUs, Front-Loading Peak Season Supply Chains
Record July container volumes driven by retailers pulling holiday goods forward to skirt tariff risk are reshaping inven...
Meijer Plots Two New Stores: A Compact Grocery in Indiana and a Michigan Supercenter
The Midwestern discounter will open a 75,000 sq ft Meijer Grocery store in Fishers, Ind., and a 159,000 sq ft supercente...
Last-Mile Tech Is Commoditized — Now It’s How Carriers Use It That Counts
For ecommerce brands, the real value of last-mile technology lies not in the tools themselves but in how partners use th...
Five Retailers Signal Consumer Caution Spanning Grocery, Apparel and Western Wear
Albertsons, Columbia Sportswear, Carter’s, Tractor Supply and Boot Barn flagged pricing resistance or traffic drops in Q...
Claire's Overhauls Ear Piercing Experience with Clinical Training to Win Over Gen Alpha
The retailer is rolling out a revamped piercing service backed by a dedicated 13-person excellence team, expanded jewelr...
Coles Counters Woolworths' Ooshies with $3.4 Million Cash-Back Blitz
Coles unveils a two-day eGift Card sale and a six-week 'Shop, Scan, Win' campaign offering $3.4 million in grocery prize...
Bifurcated Spending: Why Mid-Market Brands Are Losing the Post-Pandemic Consumer
Inflation-fatigued shoppers are splitting their dollars between ultra-value essentials and premium products that deliver...
Solar Eclipse Panic Buying Sends French Glasses Sales to Record High
Manufacturers Bresser and Sodap-Sobomex report record volumes as France prepares for the August 12 eclipse, with some re...
85% of US Consumers Say Brands Use Inflation to Excuse Unnecessary Price Hikes, Omnisend Survey Finds
New data reveals deep public skepticism about brand pricing: only a minority of shoppers fully trust price-increase just...
Albertsons CEO Under Pressure After Poor Q1, Bets on $200M AI-Driven Overhaul
Amid falling identical sales and a slashed outlook, Albertsons unveils ACI Edge, a restructuring that consolidates merch...