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Two Years in, TikTok Shop is a Commercial Powerhouse: A Look at the Numbers

How the time flies — today TikTok Shop celebrates two years since its formal U.S. launch, and for many brands and creators it’s already hard to imagine a time before…

Features September 12

DSW Steps into Retail Media Arena with Debut of ‘Front Row Connection’

DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse has stepped into the retail media arena with the debut of Front Row Connection, a self-service platform powered by the Epsilon Retail Media platform. The footwear…

News September 11

C-Store Delivery Platform Vroom Adopts Instacart’s Retail Media Solution

Vroom Delivery, an ecommerce platform serving 3,500 convenience stores nationwide, has partnered with Instacart to deploy its Carrot Ads retail media technology. The new agreement expands Vroom’s efforts to help…

News September 11
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Exclusive: Walmart Beefs up Digital Insights in its Quest to Become ‘America’s Favorite Place to Shop’

There’s been talk for some time about the collapse of the traditional “funnel.” Consumers no longer move along a linear path from awareness to consideration to purchase, and they haven’t…

Features September 11

How Brands are Rethinking Pricing Strategy Amid Tariff Uncertainty

Brands are being squeezed like never before. On one hand, federal trade policy is causing the price of just about everything to go up, thanks to tariffs and the resulting…

Executive Viewpoints September 11

Deep Dive: How to Tackle Return Fraud — Without Losing Customers 

Featuring: Vishal Patel and Pedro Ramos of Appriss Retail Product returns are often seen as a necessary evil—but when return fraud enters the mix, things get a lot more costly,…

Podcasts September 11

Pinterest’s New ‘Where-to-Buy’ Links Give CPG Advertisers Valuable Purchase Intent Data

Pinterest is rolling out native “where-to-buy” links for its standard image ads, allowing advertisers to show multiple in-stock retailer options for a single product. The shoppable links allow brands to…

News September 10

NRF Forecasts Import Declines Through Early 2026, Blames Tariff Uncertainty

The National Retail Federation (NRF) and consulting firm Hackett Associates are predicting a 3.4% decline in cargo volumes for 2025 compared to the previous year — even with near-record imports…

News September 10

Albertsons Debuts Google Cloud’s AI-Powered Conversational Commerce Agent

Albertsons will be the first retailer to bring the new Google Cloud Conversational Commerce agent to market via its Ask AI tool, designed to help customers build smarter, faster baskets…

News September 10
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