After building up fast-growing e-commerce and advertising businesses, moving its stock to the Nasdaq, and -- as of Tuesday -- crossing $1 trillion in valuation, Walmart is starting to look a lot more like a big tech company.
As brands plan for 2026, they are determined to not have their growth initiatives upended by another year of macroeconomic uncertainty.
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.
It’s Super Bowl week, which means countless food and beverage brands are competing for stomach share. Here's how brands like Oikos, Ritz, Diageo and more are showing up this week.
At the Modern Retail+ and Glossy+ Virtual Town Hall, editorial staffers discussed how more consumers are increasingly interested in tracking every aspect of their health and wellness, and how brands are responding accordingly.
After achieving record revenue in 2025, Goodwill Industries International Inc. expects 2026 to be its most lucrative year yet.
Fitigues, a ’90s casualwear brand previously owned by Chico's, is back after its founders reclaimed the IP and reopened stores.
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.
Tree Hut is increasingly turning to AI to understand what its customer base wants next, using the technology to shape everything from product development to marketing.
Shopify merchants saw a 14x increase in orders coming from AI agents over the past year, as agentic shopping gains traction, Shopify President Harley Finkelstein told Modern Retail.
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 […]
The Modern Retail Marketing Summit is taking place in Huntington Beach, California this year from April 20-22, featuring speakers from top brands like Thrive Market, ThredUp, Pacsun and more. Here’s a preview of what you can expect out of the event.
Anthropologie is testing out a new catalog strategy for 2026 that involves more issues, different formats and wider circulation.
As ICE agents occupy Minneapolis, consumer brands are taking to social media to call for action, raise money and spread information.
Target’s response, or the lack thereof, to the growing presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis has become yet another PR crisis for the retailer on a national scale.
If passed, Congress’ new HEMP bill would limit the serving dosage of hemp-derived cannabinoids across edibles, beverages, topicals and inhalable products.
Cori Voorhees, partner marketing manager, Adobe For merchants, the holiday shopping season brings both opportunity and pressure. Shoppers go online with long gift lists and little patience, making even small checkout barriers a risk to conversion. That’s why many merchants have begun introducing quick, low-lift improvements that can be made even as consumer traffic peaks. […]
