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How AI-Powered Computer Vision Is Transforming Retail Compliance
Narendra Lakshmana Gowda is senior engineering leader of Walmart Global Tech. Retail has always been a game of execution. A store may have the best products, pricing strategy and customer experience vision, but if operational compliance…
Four Ways To Make Creator Content Work Harder In Retail Media
Aliza Freud is CEO at SheSpeaks, an influencer-powered media and performance company. Retail media has become one of the fastest-growing channels in marketing. As brands continue increasing investments in retail media networks, much of the…
India's IPO Megadeals Will Test Jittery Retail Investors
The two mega initial public offerings coming up in India are joined at the hip by retail sentiment. The $7 billion question is if the glue will hold. If gray-market prices are to be believed, both the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.'s $3…
Father's Day a Win-win for Menswear Retailers
Christmas came early for menswear retailers this year. With the men's category already on the upswing, Father's Day provided a significant boost in business to department and specialty stores across the country. Despite ongoing macroeconomic and…
The View | What retail apocalypse? Southeast Asia's malls are sitting pretty
A cursory look at the ranking of the world's largest shopping centres shows the scale of the decline in the US retail property market. The US has only one, the Mall of America near Minneapolis, Minnesota, among the top 20. This is not surprising…
Japan's Retail FX Traders Bet Their Government Can Prop Up Yen
Japan's army of retail currency traders have heeded their government's warning and stopped betting on the yen to decline, putting them at odds with professional investors positioning for further weakness. The mean estimate of individual investors'…
The Retail World Cup: Adidas Vs. Nike
As national teams battle for football's biggest prize on the pitch, Adidas and Nike are competing for a different championship off it: winning the wallets of World Cup fans. While the FIFA World Cup is a global event, U.S. merchandise sales offer…
Social media is driving 1.7bn retail visits by being shop window for high street
SOCIAL media is the new shop window for the high street, research suggests — as it gets Generation Z to head out to trendy venues to buy viral products. Content posted on apps such as TikTok and Instagram is thought to be behind an estimated…
How a little-known 2020 regulation and nearly $800 million in fees helped fuel the retail private credit boom
Boaz Weinstein thinks retail investors who have plowed into private credit and regretted it should ask their wealth advisors a simple question: 'How much were you paid?' The activist investor, who has targeted Blue Owl's funds, argued in a podcast…
How AI fraud rings are taking on retail
Retail fraud used to be relatively straightforward. A stolen card, a fake account, or a suspicious transaction pattern that could be flagged and blocked before serious damage was done. That version of fraud is still present, but it is no longer the…
When AI agents start shopping for us, retail's identity stack needs a rewrite
The retail industry is about to lose one of its oldest assumptions: that the shopper at checkout is definitely a human. 30 to 45 percent of U.S. consumers already use generative AI for product research and comparison, and that reliance will…
Shoe retailer Accent rejects Mike Ashley's takeover offer
Shoe retailer Accent Group has rejected a takeover offer from British billionaire Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, calling it opportunistic and materially inadequate. Frasers is the biggest shareholder in Accent with 22.9 per cent of the company, which…
BofA veteran retail analyst, head of research David Errington retires
Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
LGBTQ+ shoppers are cutting spending at these major retailers
Many LGBTQ+ consumers are pulling back spending at several top retailers due to the perceived lack of support for the community, a new report from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF) found. Target is the top company LGBTQ+ consumers…
A game for retailers: Try to beat this RX 9070 XT PC deal over Prime Day
iBuyPower Y40 | RX 9070 XT: was $2,499.99 now $1,749 at Walmart You can find an RX 9070 XT gaming PC for a little cheaper than this, however, here you're not only getting 32 GB of DDR5 RAM but also a 9800X3D. That's the best gaming CPU currently on…
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