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From Mid-Year Pressure to a Winning Holiday Season: Lessons from the First Half of 2026
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The Age of the Empowered Associate
Featuring: Oscar Sachs, Salesfloor, Bob Phibbs, The Retail Doctor, Regina Aiello, Ben Bridge Jeweler What does it take to create a base of passionate and engaged associates? This is a…
Podcasts January 3
Top 5 Reasons Businesses are Turning to Inventory Funding
According to a recent survey, 24% of small businesses in the United States said the COVID-19 pandemic has had a “large negative effect” on their business. At a time when…
Executive Viewpoints December 31
Address Labor Shortages by Creating Attractive Retail Career Paths
Labor shortages in industries that had previously relied on multiple job seekers — even for low-paying jobs — have been one of retail’s biggest challenges in 2021. It’s not just…
Features December 31
The Future of Retail Takes a Digital Shift to Omnichannel Marketing
Finally, the once-static world of retail marketing is transforming. One by one, retailers are finding that their marketing models — co-op driven, lacking in transparency, and largely traditional in form…
Executive Viewpoints December 31
Does Customer Age Matter for Fraud Prevention?
In 2020, consumers spent approximately $630 billion on online shopping, and merchants lost $12 billion to fraud. Federal data indicates that impostor scams and ecommerce fraud topped the list. Account takeover fraud, which…
Executive Viewpoints December 30
Convenience and Reliability Trump Speed in Digital Grocery, and Here’s How to Deliver Them
Reliability is an important aspect of any ecommerce transaction — no one likes shipping delays or out-of-stock messages — but digital grocery is where this consideration becomes truly paramount. Food…
Features December 30
Ad Optimization Platform Quartile Acquires Sidecar
Quartile, which provides advertising optimization services to ecommerce marketplace sellers, has purchased performance marketing solution provider Sidecar. Quartile expects that the acquisition will double its amount of advertising spend under…
News December 29
What Brands Can Learn From D2C Trendsetters
D2C as a business model has always been around. We’ve seen it from the street sellers to the door-to-door salespeople who knew us by name and preferences. In current times,…
Executive Viewpoints December 29
What Interior Design Will Look Like in 2022: Personalization, Nature and Augmented Reality
As with most industries, the pandemic accelerated processes that were well underway in the interior design sphere during the past few years. Thanks to the latest technological developments, the warehouse-first…
Executive Viewpoints December 29
