Google Video Ad Controversy Could Drive Brands to Retail Media Networks
Google promises to place video advertisements on third-party websites that adhere to a particular set of standards through its Google Video Partners program. Re...
Is Unattended Retail Where Retailers Want To Be?
New enhanced vending machines, new deployments of Just Walk Out-style technology and other unattended retail setups have been appearing more frequently lately, ...
How Speedy Does Walgreens Need To Be?
Lindsay Mikos, senior director of omnichannel strategy and programs at Walgreens, spoke about the retail pharmacy chain’s moves to build out and maintain its ...
What Do Gen Z And Alpha Want From Brands?
Generation Z and Generation Alpha’s relationship with technology is, naturally, yielding different shopping habits from older audiences as the younger generat...
What Will Walmart Gain From Its Web3 Incubator Program?
Walmart’s Store No. 8 has announced the impending launch of a new tech incubator program focused on funding Web3-related initiatives. It is now accepting appl...
Has DTC’s Heyday Passed?
A few years ago, direct-to-consumer (DTC) was the retail model everyone was talking about. It was bringing success not only to brands with fanatically engaged a...
Will Lower Volume Purchases Come Back to Bite Grocery Stores?
Price increases, not sales volume, are driving recent increased profit growth in grocery, according to CNN Business. In fact, the amount of groceries customers ...
Will Walgreens’ New Anti-Theft Store Stop Stealing?
Walgreens is piloting a store concept dedicated to letting customers shop while preventing criminals from stealing....
Was Kizik’s Digital-First Shoe Brand Made For Brick & Mortar Stores?
Kizik is a digital-first shoe startup that sells a new kind of sneaker, which lets wearers put the shoe on and take it off without unlacing it or breaking the h...
Should Brand Founders Get Personal on TikTok?
The brains behind brands are getting more personal with their fans and customers on TikTok....
Do Dollar Stores Need to Look Out For Temu?
With inflation and a precarious economy driving people to look for deals, more U.S. customers are visiting dollar stores. The U.S. dollar store vertical, howeve...
Will Goodwill Build Good Will With Mixed-Use Retail And Housing Project?
Goodwill in Washington, D.C, in a move meant to lend a big helping hand to one of the communities it serves, is partnering to build affordable housing and a chi...
Will Consumers Knock Off Buying Lululemon Dupes After Wearing The Real Thing?
Buying knockoff goods may carry a stigma for some consumers, but not Gen Zers. They are not only unbothered buying duplicates (AKA dupes) of brand-name goods, t...
Will Vitamin Shoppe Get Healthier as a Private Company?
Nutritional supplement retailer Vitamin Shoppe and the other retailers in Franchise Group’s portfolio will no longer answer to Wall Street’s whims as the pa...
Will John Mackey’s New Love.Life Concept Change How We Think About Food And Health?
Whole Foods founder John Mackey, who officially stepped down as the CEO of the Amazon.com-owned grocer in 2022, has started another health food-focused endeavor...
Will Self-Checkout Tip Prompts Prompt a Tip Backlash?
Payment solutions with built-in tip prompts are now showing up in new retail verticals and even at self-checkout kiosks....
Will New CEO’s Plan Give Starbucks a Pick-Me-Up?
New Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan is putting his own spin on Starbucks’ business improvement plan, naming several pain points he hopes to address to reinvig...
Have Americans Become Sick of Social Media?
That enthusiasm for social media has waned over the years and a new survey shows that Americans are not thrilled with it anymore....
Is Uniqlo At The Beginning of Something Big in The U.S.?
Japanese fast-fashion retailer Uniqlo wants to become a more familiar fixture throughout the U.S....
Do Fewer SKUs Add Up to Better Prices at Thrive Market?
As prices at the grocery shelf remain high nationwide, one e-grocer says that its method for managing inventory has allowed it to keep its prices relatively low...