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'Retail DeFi Is Dead'-Or Is It? Inside The $300 Million Civil War
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…
Waitrose To Test Airport Retailing At London Heathrow
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…
Record surge in gasoline receipts boosts US retail sales in March
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…
Retail sales up a sharp 1.7% in March from February driven by a spike in gas prices due to the Iran war
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…
Tech Tuesday: Retail Technology Spending Projected to Reach $388 Billion
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…
Stock Market Today: Dow Rallies On Surprise Retail Data; UnitedHealth Surges On Earnings (Live Coverage)
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…
Chasing The Value Consumer: March U.S. Retail Sales Trends And Q1 2026 Earnings Setup
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…
US Employment Additions Accelerate As Retail Sales Soar In March
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%…
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Fynd Scales OpenAI to 4.3M Retail Interactions
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…
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The rise of self-checkout: Why frictionless retail is becoming fashion's new baseline
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…
BTX: A Strategy Reset, A 17% Discount, And Retail Access To Frontier AI
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…
Mercedes-Benz Korea's direct sales to reshape retail paradigm: experts
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…
Primark Will Become a Standalone Retail Company Following Its Separation from ABF in 2027
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…
Luk Fook's Q1 retail sales jumps 19pc, sees more mainlanders buying gold in HK, Macau
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…
These 2 Retailers Have Pricing Power and That's Everything Right Now
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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