This season, retailers and shoppers alike are contending with a shorter holiday shopping window — on top of tariffs, waning consumer sentiment and recession fears.
Sections
Explore
Digiday Media
This season, retailers and shoppers alike are contending with a shorter holiday shopping window — on top of tariffs, waning consumer sentiment and recession fears.
Bogg fast-tracked its new Bougie Quilted Collection after Trump-era tariffs disrupted its supply chain and slashed revenue projections, pushing the brand to diversify products.
Amazon third-party sellers are bracing for more penny-pinching in 2026 after the e-commerce giant announced it is increasing fulfillment fees next year for merchants, even as President Donald Trump's trade war squeezes margins.
Unless they're ready to retire, the thousands of workers laid off by Amazon and Target last month are going to face an unusually slow job market for hiring.
During the virtual AI Commerce Strategies Town Hall, hosted exclusively for Modern Retail+ and Glossy+ subscribers, retail executives talked about what burning questions they had related to AI.
Bogg fast-tracked its new Bougie Quilted Collection after Trump-era tariffs disrupted its supply chain and slashed revenue projections, pushing the brand to diversify products.
John Furner's tenure as the next CEO of Walmart will at least initially be defined by how the company evolves from testing and experimenting with AI to implementing it throughout the company.
Online shoppers are getting blindsided by tariff invoices from shipping carriers and U.S. customs. Logistics experts say the complicated issue of accidental bills could drag on for months.
Free online returns — once a standard perk of e-commerce — are becoming the latest casualty of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
DTC brand Quince says some of its customers are mistakenly being hit with tariff bills even though the brand has absorbed the fees.
Amazon quietly rolled out a new agentic shopping feature in Rufus, the company’s artificial intelligence-powered shopping assistant, that will automatically buy products for shoppers when they go on sale.
TikTok Shop is preparing for the peak holiday shopping season, when strong sales are often accompanied by an uptick in counterfeit goods and fraudulent behavior.
Tony D’Onorio, president, Sensormatic Solutions With consumers’ economic anxieties high and the holiday season right around the corner, retailers are looking for ways to preserve the cheer (and their own bottom lines) this winter. Closing in on the all-important holiday rush, leaders are hard at work refining and finalizing their holiday plans — and for good […]
Even as brands like Red Bull and Kraft Natural Cheese jump on the Advent calendar bandwagon, there are few signs that customers are getting Advent calendar fatigue; brands like Spunky Pup, Bartesian and Bonne Maman say they continue to sell well.
Brands including Rare Beauty and M.M.LaFleur are making Substack an important part of their marketing mix during the busiest — and, for many, the most lucrative — time of the year.
Millennial-favorite mall brand True Religion is starting to make inroads with Gen Z, too. Here’s how the brand is looking to spark momentum with a younger consumer.
In a closer tie between the sister brands, Urban Outfitters will now accept Nuuly rental returns at its U.S. stores.
“Personalization” is about more than just marketing emails. It’s a process that can go all the way from the product design stage to in-store sales to post-sale follow-ups. That’s according to Feliz Papich, vp of digital technology, experience and insights at the footwear brand Crocs.
While personalization is something customers increasingly ask for, they also are wary of anything verging on creepy. Real-time location data doesn’t rely on who a shopper is but where they are. It’s a foundational signal for effectively engaging consumers and driving sales — and it can be used at every touchpoint. Timely location-based messages boost […]
