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April 18, 2024

We’ve all heard the analogy of the boiling frog: when a frog is put into a pot of boiling water, it will instantly jump out. However, when the frog is immersed into a pot of lukewarm water that is slowly […]

April 11, 2024

We are past the point of conjecture about whether AI will upend the retail industry; it already has. In a recent study sponsored by Nvidia, 69% of retailers that used AI in 2023 reported that it increased revenues, and 72% […]

April 8, 2024

In the shifting tides of retail, the prominence of Retail Media Networks (RMNs) has surged, signaling a new dawn of digital marketing within the retail sector. This rise is anchored in the growing imperative for first-party data acquisition as traditional […]

March 26, 2024

Cooperative food wholesaler Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG), which serves independently owned supermarkets, has expanded its partnership with Instacart to offer ecommerce and same-day delivery solutions as well as smart cart technology to its member retailers. More than 800 AWG member […]

March 22, 2024

Food retailers alone lose more than 2 million shopping carts every year. Whether stolen or blown away by the wind, shopping carts can block empty parking places and intersections as well as ditches and storm drains. Abandoned shopping carts aren’t […]

March 7, 2024

Quiet luxury, coastal grandmother, and cottagecore are just a few fashion trends that have emerged from the TikTok era. If you’re like me, you wouldn’t even know where to begin finding an outfit to fit some of these. Is there […]

January 23, 2024

Retailers are turning to generative AI to power search engines and chatbots in a push to make digital experience more helpful and convenient. As generative AI lays the foundations for the next generation of web experiences, retailers are developing use […]

January 22, 2024

2024 and beyond will be about making AI adoption in retail as mainstream as possible and designing the strategies and guardrails around its adoption. Retail leaders are bullish about AI’s role in improving growth and profitability. According to Gartner, AI […]

January 19, 2024

At a session at the NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show, Amy Eschliman, managing director of retail at Google Cloud, predicted that generative AI (GenAI) could be as disruptive as the arrival of the internet or mobile phones. “These massive transformations […]

January 19, 2024

The rumor that every NRF speaker was contractually obligated to mention artificial intelligence (AI) at least once per presentation is definitely untrue, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that was the case because AI worked its way into almost every […]

January 18, 2024

Mobile apps have become a critical customer engagement channel for retailers as they try to create and capture more value for, and from, their customers. It’s no surprise that industry research and earnings reports consistently reveal customers with a brand’s […]

January 17, 2024

Recent research on retail workforce management points to a few key themes: Flexibility is king, hourly workers want to feel valued, and technology is revolutionizing the way retail associates do their jobs. In a recent webinar, RIS News editor Maia […]

January 12, 2024

A global survey from the IBM Institute for Business Value found that only 9% of consumers are content with in-store shopping, and only 14% are content with online shopping. Emerging shopping technologies were found to not be living up to […]

January 11, 2024

Generative AI has put the retail industry at yet another inflection point. 2023 was a period of experimentation for retailers, and many thoroughly assessed where this new technology could have the biggest impact. As the use cases for this technology […]

November 28, 2023

When you imagine retail media’s place in a marketing funnel, do your eyes look toward the bottom? If so, you may miss out on the full-funnel benefits of retail media networks (RMNs). As marketers, we’re already sold on the performance […]

November 21, 2023

Walmart Business has spent the last year building out its solutions and services for SMB customers, including a dedicated membership offering and tailored app experience. Now Walmart is helping small businesses prepare for holiday office celebrations. Walmart Business has launched […]

November 16, 2023

Over the past year, major tech companies and retailers have announced their use of artificial intelligence for everything from product images and descriptions to digital assistants and supply chain optimization. In January, Google Cloud introduced an artificial intelligence-driven tool that […]

November 14, 2023

When generative AI burst into the public sphere last year — in the form of Microsoft and OpenAI’s ChatGPT — it gained 100 million active users over the course of two months. That made it the fastest-growing software application in […]

November 8, 2023

Artificial intelligence is transforming most industries by enabling automation, delivering new insights, and creating new services. While AI is being deployed nearly everywhere, it’s having a particularly significant impact in retail. This holiday season, we’ll see firsthand how technology is […]

November 6, 2023

Malls have been gathering places for moviegoers, mall walkers and of course shoppers for decades. As consumers turned to ecommerce during the pandemic (in droves), the “death of the mall” was widely reported. The pandemic did change shopper behavior, with […]