Shopify just wrapped up its strongest year since 2021, with record sales growth, major enterprise brand wins and an OpenAI partnership positioning the company as core infrastructure for AI-driven shopping.
Many founders had to completely upend their business models in 2025 due to tariffs, resorting to production delays, raising prices and putting off hiring to save their businesses.
This year, tariffs kicked in at their highest rate since the Great Depression, completely upending the retail industry. In turn, Modern Retail rounded up the biggest winners and losers of all the changes in tariff policy this year.
2025 showed that more shoppers were eager and willing to start their shopping journeys on AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Now, 2026 will be the year that proves whether shoppers have gotten comfortable enough with the technology to click "buy" within these AI platforms.
Once limited to prestige brands, skinification is becoming table stakes across personal care aisles as people look for ingredient-specific solutions.
For 2026, the Modern Retail staff predicts more AI shopping and more creator economy shakeups. Plus, a look at what brands could sell next year.
Pharmacy sales are shifting from in-store to delivery and other platforms amid broader disruption in the U.S. pharmacy sector.
Many founders had to completely upend their business models in 2025 due to tariffs, resorting to production delays, raising prices and putting off hiring to save their businesses.
This year, tariffs kicked in at their highest rate since the Great Depression, completely upending the retail industry. In turn, Modern Retail rounded up the biggest winners and losers of all the changes in tariff policy this year.
Secondhand gifts are shedding their stigma this holiday season as shoppers, squeezed by tariffs and inflation, turn to thrift stores and resale platforms for thoughtful, lower-cost presents.
The Athlete’s Foot, a 54-year-old specialty footwear retailer, is launching a U.S. e-commerce site after discontinuing it roughly six years ago.
Amazon sellers are experimenting with new ways to optimize product listings for the AI chatbot Rufus, adding more conversational language and product details despite limited guidance from Amazon on how the tool ranks products.
Nora Eisner, senior research data scientist, Tatari For most retailers, measuring the success of an ad is as simple as waiting to see if it drives someone to visit a website. But what about getting shoppers to go to a brick-and-mortar store? Yes, in-store sales are still very much a thing in 2025. In fact, […]
Big workout pants, fiber and thrifting are just some of the trends that will dominate 2026, Modern Retail predicts in its annual In/Out list.
To cut through sports marketing noise, Cheez-It is resurrecting Prince Cheddward and betting on nostalgia.
Marketers share how they navigated the maze of tariffs and regulatory changes this year.
Brands known for their heyday in the ‘90s, like Gap and Victoria’s Secret, have used 2025 to mount turnaround plans. But staging a successful comeback after years of a battered reputation takes more than a few quarters of growth.
Modern Retail staff rounded up some of the most notable brand names we lost in 2025, like Joann and Rite Aid. These included brands we lost due to reorganizations, bankruptcies or quiet closures.
Bradley Keefer, CRO, Keen Decision Systems Despite the emergence of October sales events and December’s strong sales performance last year, Black Friday remains the premier event for retailers. Last year, the NRF found that an estimated 197 million consumers, up from their initial prediction of 183.4 million, shopped during the five-day holiday weekend between Thanksgiving […]
