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The concept of a drone flying over your home to deliver items from a store is moving further away from a "Jetsons"-like fantasy for most Americans and toward reality.
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.
Executives from Target, Best Buy and Nordstrom say their marketplaces are playing a bigger role in how they choose products, make money and help shoppers find what they want, both online and in stores.
Facing "subscription fatigue" among customers, Indian meal delivery brand The Cumin Club is following in the footsteps of Blue Apron and Daily Harvest by offering one-time orders.
ButcherBox is now selling in-store at Target after launching curated meat boxes on its marketplace last spring.
Leaders from The North Face, Vans and Timberland discussed their growth playbooks for 2026 at the NRF conference on Tuesday. They involve everything from zeroing in on core categories to courting young 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.
Lowe’s has started selling the software behind its point-of-sale systems to other retailers as a new revenue stream.
At NRF, leaders at companies like PayPal and Fabletics acknowledged there’s still a ways to go before more people trust AI to complete a transaction.
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. […]
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.
With a splashy new partnership with Khloé Kardashian’s Khloud popcorn, Starbucks is marrying its strategy of offering more on-trend items with relevant pop culture partnerships.
Playhouse MD, which sells nasal bulbs in the shape of fun creatures like narwhals, has surpassed seven figures in revenue since launching in June. Here’s what’s next for the company in 2026.
At NRF’s annual Big Show, executives from Away, Vuori and Rothy’s discussed the ways the DTC model has been upended since its golden era.
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, […]
