Despite many retailers embracing earlier and earlier online holiday shopping before Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving continued to be a banner occasion for malls and shopping centers.
Having spent seven years at E.l.f. Beauty, CFO Mandy Fields breaks down the day-to-day challenges and opportunities of growing a beauty brand.
In a year marked by volatile changes to tariff policy and a quick succession of pullbacks on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, Costco has continuously been held up as an example of a company that has stood firm in its willingness to do what it believes is best for the business.
Digital fashion retailer Asos is making physical retail more of a priority as it attempts a continued turnaround.
This month, Modern Retail profiled a handful of top retail execs who guided brands like E.l.f. Beauty, Oura and Amazon through definitive moments this year. Here's what we learned from them about what it takes to be a successful retail leader today.
This week's episode of the Modern Retail Podcast analyzes PepsiCo's new strategy to cut products, and the secondhand sales boom of 2025.
Jason Buechel, a longtime Whole Foods leader with roots in food and technology, is now tasked with unifying Amazon’s sprawling grocery business and solving the company’s decades-long struggle to gain traction in the category.
Turmoil from tariffs and pressure on margins are forcing some brands to play it safer this Cyber Week.
Some Amazon sellers are reducing or skipping their Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions as tariffs and platform fees squeeze margins.
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.
Shopify, the e-commerce platform used by smaller DTC brands to retail behemoths like Estée Lauder, is escalating its AI push.
EBay has updated the underlying code of its sprawling e-commerce platform to include new guidelines governing how AI agents and large language models can interact with its site, making it the latest retailer to set such rules.
John Shapiro, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Lightspeed Commerce From November to the start of the new year, this season marks one of the busiest times for retailers around the globe — and one they prepare for months in advance. According to the National Retail Federation, 91% of consumers plan to celebrate the winter holidays, […]
Cyber Week may have been born in the United States, but much of its growth is now happening across the Atlantic.
Papier is seeing double-digit sales growth from a new wave of consumers opting for analog products.
Oura CMO Doug Sweeny played a key role in architecting the brand’s rise from a niche fitness product to a mainstream wellness player.
BNPL services are being advertised more than ever as shoppers’ holiday buying leans on flexible financing.
Shea Jensen, president of Urban Outfitters, has been tasked with turning the brand around and doing a better job of keeping up with the fast-changing interests of Gen Z. So far, numbers show the strategy is working.
Ask a dozen marketers, and some will say the customer journey has, in turn, collapsed, condensed, lengthened, looped, died and been born anew. What’s not up for debate is that it has fundamentally changed. That’s what Global CMO of Assembly Bria Bryant helped unpack when we met for a morning of shopping and shop talk. […]
