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Brands entering Costco are crafting special warehouse merchandising and price-pack architecture to succeed in a high-stakes retail environment.
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.
Sam's Club has been making significant changes to how its free-sample kiosks operate within the company -- pointing to its confidence in the machines and free samples, in general, as advertising drivers.
Target has sent corporate employees a page with answers to commonly asked questions related to ICE's increased presence in Minnesota, as it avoids commenting on high-profile incidents at its stores.
Several former Walmart leaders say they expect the big-box retailer to keep a close eye on Amazon's proposed big-box store near Chicago.
Pacsun is using data from focus groups and surveys to better tailor its product releases, marketing and tech to Gen-Z shoppers.
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.
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.
Albertsons said this month that it has seen enough success in its digital screen network to begin a rollout in more than a third of its 2,200-plus stores in 2026.
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 […]
For the third year in a row, Avocados From Mexico is returning to the Super Bowl with a digital play; its Prediction Pit is built on a predictive AI system that offers real-time football predictions, as well as custom guacamole recipes.
Fashionable designs and technical fabrics are front and center at the Winter Olympics, thanks to apparel and footwear partners like J.Crew, Nike and Ralph Lauren.
Beverage brands in the nonalcoholic space are consistently tweaking their messaging to reflect consumers’ drinking habits. With Dry January underway, this means using encouraging messaging that’s less shameful.
As brands plan for 2026, they are determined to not have their growth initiatives upended by another year of macroeconomic uncertainty.
Goodwill’s digital strategy is paying off: Its online marketplace, ShopGoodwill.com, just logged its biggest year ever, turning donated goods into hundreds of millions of dollars for the nonprofit’s workforce programs.
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 […]
