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Beyond the Code Freeze: 5 Ways to Keep your Mobile Apps Running During the Holiday Shopping Blitz
In 2024, consumers spent $150 billion on in-app purchases, according to the State of Mobile 2025 report. And no period drives more of that spending than the holiday season. That…
Executive Viewpoints November 4Agentic Commerce is a Huge Opportunity for Retailers; it’s Also a Liability Storm
AI agents that shop on behalf of consumers are moving from concept to reality. Visa and Mastercard are giving AI agents their own credit cards with spending authorization. PayPal is…
Executive Viewpoints November 3Bath & Body Works Engineers Holiday ‘Scent Takeovers,’ While Sephora Brings on the ‘Queen of Christmas’
Beauty retailers are pulling out all the stops to amp up the joy and magic this holiday season. Sephora launched the beginning of the holiday season in style with a…
News November 3Walmart Looks to ‘Rewrite the Holiday Playbook’ with New In-Store AI Experiences
Walmart has unveiled a series of new AI-powered tools on its app and website aimed at making holiday shopping in stores easier and more fun. The new tools are personalized…
News November 3Amazon Ads’ Former Evangelist on the Future of Retail Media
Featuring: Jeff Cohen, Chief Business Development Officer, Skai and former Principal Evangelist, Amazon Ads Retail media — or should we say commerce media — has exploded into one of the…
Podcasts November 3Western-Wear Retailer Boosts In-Stock Rates 2% in Pilot of AI-Powered Allocation Solution
Tecovas, the Austin, Texas-based Western wear apparel and cowboy boot retailer, will deploy AI-powered allocation and replenishment solutions across its 30+ stores, following a pilot that increased both in-stock rates…
News October 31Urban Outfitters Plans 10 New Stores in Gen Z-Friendly Format
Urban Outfitters will open three stores in a new format designed to appeal to Gen Z shoppers by the end of 2025, with an additional seven stores planned for 2026.…
News October 31More Retailers Step Up as SNAP Cutoff Deadline Looms
[Update as of Oct. 31, 2025] More retailers and service providers are stepping up with programs to help the estimated 40 million Americans facing a Nov. 1 cutoff of SNAP…
News October 31The EU’s ESPR, Working Plan Update, and Ensuring the U.S. Retail Industry is Ready
Sustainability is becoming a global pressure across industries — an issue we must tackle head-on if we’re to protect the future of this planet. To put the scale of this…
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