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How Retail Media Can Monetize Retail Stores' Highest-Intent Screens
Nico Müller is CCO at shopreme, delivering self-checkout customers love in 2,200+ stores at retailers such as Auchan, Loblaws, REWE & more. Retail media has earned its reputation as one of the fastest‑growing and most resilient ad…
What Shoppers Are Buying This Christmas In Retail
Christmas shoppers are looking for warmth, nostalgia and value for money in 2025 Retailers heading into the holidays are preparing for a 2025 Christmas retail season that's disciplined rather than decadent. VoucherCodes/GlobalData forecasts roughly…
Understanding Amazon.com's Position In Broadline Retail Industry Compared To Competitors - Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
In today's rapidly changing and highly competitive business world, it is vital for investors and industry enthusiasts to carefully assess companies. In this article, we will perform a comprehensive industry comparison, evaluating Amazon.com…
18 Big Challenges Retailers Are Facing This Holiday Season
The holiday season is always a high-stakes time for retailers, but this year brings a new mix of challenges. Customers are more cautious, competition for attention is fierce, and AI-driven discovery is changing how people find and evaluate…
From Aisles To Agents: Building An Agentic AI Control Tower In Retail
Rajdeep Biswas is the Strategic Industry Leader – Solutions Architecture at Databricks. Today, retail is a timing game, where decisions made every second impact the business in real time. While many retailers are looking to all-purpose…
Holiday Retail Sales 2025: U.S. Shoppers Expected To Pull Back
A PwC survey showed that U.S. consumers plan to spend 5% less on seasonal spending compared to 2024, the biggest drop in five years. By Marcia Yusavage, Executive Editor, Future of Commerce, SAP Experts forecast slower growth in holiday retail…
Retail Traders Schooled on Market Timing as New Crypto Bets Sink
Wall Street's rush to cash in on the crypto boom by launching exchange-traded funds of all stripes is looking like a case of awkward timing: All 11 ETFs mostly tied to smaller cryptocurrencies that debuted recently are in the red, caught in a…
Will Labour kill off corner shops? Retailers fear taxes and red tape
A majority of corner shops are fearful about next week's Budget with retailers warning Rachel Reeves not to put 'another nail in the coffin' with further tax rises. A survey of England's convenience stores found three-quarters (74 per cent) were…
Home Depot CEO warns of 'uncertainty' as three issues plague retailer
Home Depot has suffered another blow to its profit expectations and it says fewer violent storms this year is partly to blame. The business also suffered from more anxiety among U.S. consumers and a housing market that is in a deep funk. The…
C-Beauty Gets Physical - In Retail, That Is
In the online-centric C-beauty market, Maogeping stands out as an anomaly. The brand founder, the charismatic Mao Geping, an opera singer-turned-celebrity makeup artist, has always made it a priority to have an offline presence, despite C- beauty…
Amazon-Backed More Retail Picks Banks for $300 Million India IPO
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ShopLiftr Turns Retail Rhetoric Into Reality: The Playbook for Activation, Agility, and Proof
As the industry debates how to close the loop, ShopLiftr is showing what activation looks like in practice – fusing live trade-promotion data with programmatic media to bridge story and sale across grocery, convenience, and pharmacy. Its…
Ajay Salpekar on Engineering TikTok's Beauty Boom and Redefining Retail Discovery
Ajay Salpekar is an engineer by training, so it's no surprise he's adeptly built one of beauty's biggest e-commerce platforms. “I'm trained in building systems,” Salpekar said. “At Microsoft and then Amazon, that's what I…
Retail vs. whales: Who actually drives the Santa rally?
Traditionally tied to the last five trading days of December and the first two of January, the Santa Rally now influences Bitcoin and major altcoins as seasonal optimism, low liquidity and renewed risk appetite shape year-end trading. With…
Historic Scottish retailer sees profits fall after disappointing 'Christmas
Profits dipped as turnover at CJ Lang, which supplies more than 300 independent retailers trading under the Spar fascia across Scotland and operates around 100 stores of its own, increased by around £2m to £255m in a year it…
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