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.
Modern Retail’s editorial team surveyed a half-dozen retail leaders, ranging from vice presidents at big corporations like Target and Lowe’s to founders of digitally native startups, to talk about how they plan to incorporate AI into their businesses in 2026.
Amazon broke a long-standing holiday tradition in 2025 by not publishing a post–Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales recap, marking the first time in nearly a decade that the company has stayed silent after one of its biggest shopping periods.
