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The most innovative retail companies of 2026
The most innovative retailers in 2025 used technology not to chase trends, but to solve real problems. As tariffs squeezed margins and labor costs climbed, companies scrambled to adapt. Shopify opened its platform to agentic AI shoppers, letting…
Dollar General Taps Grocery Executive as Retailer's Next CEO
Dollar General Corp. named JJ Fleeman as its next chief executive officer, replacing Todd Vasos, who led the discount chain through an era of consistent growth. Fleeman, who will assume the role in January, has deep experience in the grocery…
69% of retail workers considering switching careers or industries: survey
If you've been on the job market lately and things seem especially challenging, you're not alone. In a Criteria survey of 2,500 job seekers, 49% of retail workers reported feeling like the competition is just too high while 53% of workers across…
Everest agrees to sell Canadian retail insurance business
0909caa9-6998-48df-98d2-170a04b55634 Jim Williamson, CEO of Everest Group (Photograph supplied) Global specialty insurer and reinsurer Everest Group has agreed to sell its Canadian retail insurance operations to the Wawanesa Mutual Insurance…
Green light for new neighbourhood retail hub at Ravenscraig
Ravenscraig is one of Europe's largest brownfield regeneration and community creation projects, with a long-term vision to establish a self-sufficient community offering high-quality housing, education, transport links, and employment…
The Smart Money Is Buying the Tech Stocks Retail Investors Are Panic-Selling
Remember the tale about Chicken Little? The young chicken believes that the sky is falling and begins warning everyone. In the original fable, though, Chicken Little actually was hit in the head by an acorn. The morals of the story are: don't jump…
XRP Price Rose 4% as Retail Demand Counters Whale Selling
Today's rebound in XRP price may drive a renewed recovery in the falling channel pattern of the daily chart. The latest on-chain data shows firm conviction from small-to-mid tier investors of XRP, while the whales continue to distribute in the…
Gov. signs bill addressing WA retailers' penny problem
A new Washington state law offers a way to make change in an era without pennies. The federal government stopped making pennies last year but intends to keep the roughly 114 billion pennies in existence in circulation for as long as possible.
Marketing Activity's Economic Impact Across Canada Rivals Retail Trade and Oil and Gas, New Research Finds
A new economic analysis from Signal49 Research, formerly operating as The Conference Board of Canada, shows marketing activity's growing contribution to GDP, employment, and public revenues since 2019 OTTAWA, ON, March 24, 2026 /CNW/ - Marketing…
Can Target's New Circle Deal Days Spark a Turnaround for the Retail Stock
Target (TGT +1.47%) has been one of the biggest flops in the retail sector since the pandemic ended. Over the last five years, the stock is down 30%, and is off more than 50% from its all-time peak around the same time. The company has struggled…
Lightspeed Commerce Launches AI-Powered Automation To Help Retailers Eliminate Manual Inventory Entry
For many retailers, receiving inventory remains a manual and error-prone process. Staff often type line items from packing slips into the POS or reconcile spreadsheets across multiple systems. This fragmented workflow can lead to duplicate…
OneBullEx Launches AI-Native Futures Trading Platform, Integrating Automated Execution and Strategy Creation for Retail and Institutional Traders
The Dubai-regulated platform combines exchange infrastructure, AI-powered trading bots, and a natural-language strategy builder in a single unified environment Dubai, UAE — OneBullEx, a next-generation derivatives trading platform powered by…
FuboTV Slides as Reverse Stock Split Divides Retail Investors
FuboTV (FUBO) is executing a reverse stock split that shrinks Class A shares from 353 million to 29 million and Class B shares from 948 million to 79 million. FuboTV still faces competitive pressure in a streaming market dominated by…
Best Crypto to Invest In While Four Firms Race to Package Hyperliquid and Retail Builds Positions Elsewhere
Grayscale, Bitwise, 21Shares, and VanEck have all filed competing ETFs for Hyperliquid's HYPE token in the same quarter. When four asset managers race to package the same protocol, the early window on that token has shut behind the institutions…
Retail, food and beverage sales rise to record high levels in the first two months
By Chen Cheng-hui / Staff reporter Sales in the retail, and the food and beverage sectors in the first two months of this year reached the highest levels for the period on record, as extended holidays boosted consumer traffic at physical stores and…
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