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The Tech Retailers are Eyeing: AI, Yes, but also RFID and Mobile POS

As one of the industry’s largest providers of retail technology, Aptos is intimately attuned to retailers’ challenges and needs. This year at…

Dillard’s Buys Longview, Texas Mall that it Anchors

Department store retailer Dillard’s and mixed-use real estate developer Trademark Property Co., have purchased the 646,000-square-foot Longview Mall in Longview, Texas, where…

Urban Outfitters Features New and Vintage Levi’s in Second ‘On Rotation’ Iteration

Urban Outfitters (UO) has teamed up with Levi’s for its second On Rotation shop-in-shop program, designed to create a one-of-a-kind denim destination…

Best Buy and Microsoft Celebrate Teens’ Creativity with Limited-Edition Tablet Covers

Best Buy and Microsoft have collaborated to produce a limited-edition version of the Microsoft Surface 13” Keyboard (a.k.a. Type Covers) decorated with…

Are Influencers Losing Value or is Your Business Leaving Impact on the Table?

Spoiler alert: Many brands are not reaching their full impact when it comes to working with influencers. What was once considered a…

NBCUniversal Research: Consumers Won’t Skimp on Back-to-School — but They Will Spend Carefully

Schools are already open in some parts of the country, but the 2025 back-to-school (BTS) shopping season still has a few weeks,…

Aldi to Set up Shop in NYC’s Times Square in 2026

Discount supermarket Aldi will enter the Midtown Manhattan area next year with a 25,000-square-foot store on 42nd Street at the edge of…

Security Association Seeks Members for New Retail Advisory Board

The Security Industry Association (SIA) has created a Retail Security Advisory Board and is calling for SIA member volunteers to join the…

Temu Streamlines U.S. Seller Onboarding Processes

China-based discount retailer Temu has adopted solutions from Rithum (formerly CommerceHub and ChannelAdvisor) to simplify onboarding of U.S. sellers. Now, Rithum users…

The Future of Agentic AI Ecosystems in Retail

Agentic AI, where autonomous agents perform actions on behalf of people, may be relatively new, but it’s advancing at a rapid pace….

Fabletics Deploys RFID-Powered Inventory Management Solution

Fabletics has launched the gStore SaaS retail solution from GreyOrange in 74 of its 100+ stores, giving managers and associates a real-time…

Tops Partners with Healthcare Benefits Provider to Streamline Healthy Purchases

Tops Friendly Markets has integrated the Basket Adjudication Service (BAS) from supplemental healthcare benefits provider NationsBenefits at its point-of-sale. The BAS provides…

Lowe’s Fortifies Pro Offerings with Foundation Building Materials Acquisition

Lowe’s will purchase interior building products distributor Foundation Building Materials (FBM) for approximately $8.8 billion. The acquisition is designed to strengthen Lowe’s…

The Homepage is Dead: Rethinking PDP Strategy for Revenue Growth

In today’s retail landscape, where ad budgets are ballooning and shopper attention is shrinking, the product detail page (PDP) has emerged as…

Why Intellectual Property Concerns Could Cause a Hiccup in Retail AI’s Expansion

The current generation of AI solutions has already been on one of the steepest growth curves in recent memory, but according to…

Carter’s Celebrates Kids’ Creativity with Capsule T-Shirt Collection

Carter’s has partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to launch a limited-edition T-shirt collection designed by youth members of…

Guess? Will Go Private in Deal Valuing Brand at $1.4 Billion

Guess? has partnered with Authentic Brands Group to go private in a transaction that values the apparel brand at approximately $1.4 billion….

Cornell to Leave Top Target Post; Retailer Chooses COO Fiddelke as Replacement

Target’s long-time CEO Brian Cornell will step down from the top job on Feb. 1, 2026, when current COO Michael Fiddelke will…

Computer Vision Brings Retail Inventory into Sharper Focus

The average inventory accuracy rate is 83%, and while that seems like a fairly high number, the missing 17% can have a considerable…

Listen Now: Inside ThredUp’s Surge — What’s Fueling Resale’s Rise

Resale platform ThredUp is at the top of its game — the company has been profitable for seven straight quarters in the…

Starbucks Raises Salaried Workers’ Pay by 2%

Starbucks has increased pay by 2% for its salaried workers, which includes store managers, manufacturing and distribution workers and corporate employees. The…

‘Shark Tank’ and Hollywood Stars to Judge Alibaba.com Product Competition

Two of the “Sharks” that swim in the popular Shark Tank show, as well as a Hollywood trailblazer/entrepreneur, will be among the…

UPDATE: Best Buy’s New Third-Party Marketplace is Now Live

[Update as of Aug. 19, 2025] Best Buy‘s new third-party marketplace has launched on the retailer’s website and app, eight months after…

Consumers Love AI Search and In-Store Shopping — and Retailers Need to Deliver Both

Consumers have always done the bulk of their shopping in stores, and the latest Future Consumer Index from EY shows that that…

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