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forbes.com - Boaz Sobrado - 'Retail DeFi Is Dead'-Or Is It? Inside The $300 Million Civil War
'Retail DeFi Is Dead'-Or Is It? Inside The $300 Million Civil War
Forbes

From today, on November 17, 2025, through the end of the week, Buenos Aires, Argentina, becomes the global hub of Ethereum. Aave, the largest lending protocol in decentralized finance, is carrying millions in bad debt this week, the fallout from a…

forbes.com - Kevin Rozario - Waitrose To Test Airport Retailing At London Heathrow
Waitrose To Test Airport Retailing At London Heathrow
Forbes

This rendering shows Waitrose and Relay having equal weight on branding. Waitrose, the upscale supermarket arm of U.K. department store operator John Lewis Partnership (JLP), will open its first airport store at London Heathrow's Terminal 2 (The…

thestandard.com.hk - The Standard 英文虎報 - Record surge in gasoline receipts boosts US retail sales in March
Record surge in gasoline receipts boosts US retail sales in March
The Standard

US retail sales increased more than expected in March as the war with Iran boosted gasoline prices and led to a record surge in receipts at service stations, while tax refunds underpinned spending elsewhere. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Though…

pbs.org - Retail sales up a sharp 1.7% in March from February driven by a spike in gas prices due to the Iran war
Retail sales up a sharp 1.7% in March from February driven by a spike in gas prices due to the Iran war
PBS

NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers accelerated their spending in March from February, but they spent most of their money at the gas pump. A spike in gas prices due to the Iran war, now in its eighth week, resulted in a hefty 1.7% gain in retail sales…

wwd.com - Arthur Zaczkiewicz - Tech Tuesday: Retail Technology Spending Projected to Reach $388 Billion
Tech Tuesday: Retail Technology Spending Projected to Reach $388 Billion
WWD

Recent research from consulting firms and analysts is showing a clear pivot of retailers apparel brands moving away from “experimental gadgets” to deeply integrated, “agentic” technologies. While previous years were…

investors.com - SCOTT LEHTONEN - Stock Market Today: Dow Rallies On Surprise Retail Data; UnitedHealth Surges On Earnings (Live Coverage)
Stock Market Today: Dow Rallies On Surprise Retail Data; UnitedHealth Surges On Earnings (Live Coverage)
Investor's Business Daily

Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major stock indexes traded higher Tuesday, as Wall Street reacted to stronger-than-expected retail sales data. Meanwhile, UnitedHealth Group (UNH) was an early winner on the stock market today…

seekingalpha.com - Lipper Alpha Insight - Chasing The Value Consumer: March U.S. Retail Sales Trends And Q1 2026 Earnings Setup
Chasing The Value Consumer: March U.S. Retail Sales Trends And Q1 2026 Earnings Setup
Seeking Alpha

March U.S. retail sales are expected, once again, to reflect headline strength, with both total sales and sales excluding autos projected to match February's solid gains of +0.6% and +0.5%, respectively. Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East are…

zerohedge.com - Tyler Durden - US Employment Additions Accelerate As Retail Sales Soar In March
US Employment Additions Accelerate As Retail Sales Soar In March
Zero Hedge

BofA's (almost) omnipotent analysts forecasted a stronger than expected retail sales print this morning as tax refunds trump surging gas prices... BofA credit/debit card spending data suggests stronger retail sales than estimates (consensus 1.4%…

ciol.com - CIOL Bureau - Fynd Scales OpenAI to 4.3M Retail Interactions
Fynd Scales OpenAI to 4.3M Retail Interactions
CIOL

Fynd, backed by Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, claims to have processed over 4.3 million customer interactions using OpenAI's large language models, positioning conversational commerce as more than just an experimental layer. But beyond the…

afaqs.com - Ubaid Zargar - The rise of self-checkout: Why frictionless retail is becoming fashion's new baseline
The rise of self-checkout: Why frictionless retail is becoming fashion's new baseline
afaqs!

For something as mundane as paying for a T-shirt, the act of checking out has long been the most friction-laden part of the retail journey. Long queues, barcode scanners that refuse to cooperate, and the faint anxiety of holding up a line are all…

seekingalpha.com - WLM Research - BTX: A Strategy Reset, A 17% Discount, And Retail Access To Frontier AI
BTX: A Strategy Reset, A 17% Discount, And Retail Access To Frontier AI
Seeking Alpha

BlackRock Technology and Private Equity Term Trust is a Buy, offering a unique blend of AI infrastructure equities and private frontier AI holdings at a wide NAV discount. BTX's portfolio reset post-February 2025 delivers concentrated exposure to…

koreatimes.co.kr - Lee Min-hyung - Mercedes-Benz Korea's direct sales to reshape retail paradigm: experts
Mercedes-Benz Korea's direct sales to reshape retail paradigm: experts
The Korea Times

Mercedes-Benz Korea's direct sales model will reshape the retail paradigm in the imported car market here, as more carmakers are expected to jump on the bandwagon once the system proves successful without any steep price hike, experts and industry…

wwd.com - Samantha Conti - Primark Will Become a Standalone Retail Company Following Its Separation from ABF in 2027
Primark Will Become a Standalone Retail Company Following Its Separation from ABF in 2027
WWD

LONDON – Just weeks after Unilever announced the merger of its foods division with McCormick & Co., Associated British Foods has confirmed plans to separate its own foods business from fashion retailer Primark. ABF announced last November it…

thestandard.com.hk - The Standard 英文虎報 - Luk Fook's Q1 retail sales jumps 19pc, sees more mainlanders buying gold in HK, Macau
Luk Fook's Q1 retail sales jumps 19pc, sees more mainlanders buying gold in HK, Macau
The Standard

Luk Fook Holdings (International) (0590) posted a 19 percent growth in retail sales value last quarter, up from a 2 percent contraction a year ago. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The pace, however, was slower than the December quarter, when the…

fool.com - Jack Delaney - These 2 Retailers Have Pricing Power and That's Everything Right Now
These 2 Retailers Have Pricing Power and That's Everything Right Now
The Motley Fool

Retailers with pricing power control their own destiny, enabling them to protect margins against inflation. That pricing power can look different, depending on the retailer. For some, it may be keeping the prices of the products on their shelves…

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