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SXSW AI Preview, Oracle’s Cuts Foreshadow Others?, AI Consciousness Debate

SXSW 2026 kicks off on Thursday and AI news should be pouring out of Austin. This year’s “Tech & AI” track features about two dozen sessions, making up about a third of the festival’s total featured talks. AI-related sessions will feature a mix of researchers, media executives, and technologists including Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström, Cloudflare […]
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How 2026 will Redefine Identity Verification in Retail

Retailers lost an estimated $115 billion to ecommerce fraud in 2024, and ineffective identity verification remains one of the biggest vulnerabilities they must address entering 2026. Fraudsters are evolving faster than many retail systems can react; meanwhile, customers expect verification to be both seamless and secure. While ecommerce leaders are taking on more advanced fraud […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Milestone for Amazon Just Walk Out: last week’s biggest technology plays at a glance

RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, launches, deployments and pilots from the past seven days. Including AWS, Ocado Group, Currys, Stripe, Pennies, Tesco, Mistral AI, Asos, Sierra, Represent, Dema, Carrefour Belgium, and Reckon.ai. AWS A new Amazon Just Walk Out technology powered store has gone live at Loyola University New Orleans in […]
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Shoppers Behaved Differently This Black Friday—Here’s How

This year’s Black Friday didn’t just break records—it reshaped how shoppers behave. In this week’s newsletter, we’re looking at two major shifts: the explosive rise of live-shopping apps and the record-setting surge in Buy Now, Pay Later spending. And on top of that, we’re releasing our own Trakwell Black Friday analysis, breaking down exactly how […]
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The Stampede to Value, Macy’s Turnaround Traction, and Moody’s Chief Economist Mark Zandi on the K-Shaped Economy

We welcome Moody’s Mark Zandi, Moody’s Chief Economist and one of the most influential and trusted macroeconomic voices shaping markets, policy, and business strategy worldwide. Zandi begins by explaining how today’s consumer landscape is defined by a widening K-shaped economy—an income and wealth split decades in the making and now intensified by rising asset values and […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Walmart’s Stablecoin Gambit: Reinventing Payments at Scale

Walmart, long a bellwether for retail disruption and ambitious in its experiments with technology, is reportedly exploring the issuance of a dollar pegged stablecoin, potentially signaling a major shakeup in how consumers transact. (coindesk.com) Why the move makes sense At the heart of the proposal is a simple but compelling financial rationale: transaction costs. Credit […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Cyber Week Recap: Online Sales Climb 5%, In-Store Shopper Visits Increase 3%

While Black Friday was once known as the day for in-person shopping (complete with lining up at 4 a.m. and elbowing your way through frenzied crowds), it’s become much more of an online affair, part of the larger “Cyber Week” period spanning Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. The dominance of ecommerce is evident in this year’s […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Arsenal Football Club inks payments partner deal with buy now pay later specialist Zilch

Zilch has announced a multi-year global agreement with Premier League giants Arsenal. Financial terms of the tie up have not been disclosed. The buy now pay later firm’s first foray into sports, this spans both men’s and women’s teams, and will make available its range of payment options to Arsenal supporters. The agreement will also […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The Hidden Forces Shaping Black Friday 2025

Black Friday is nearly here, and if there’s one thing our year-over-year data keeps proving, it’s this: more traffic doesn’t automatically mean more sales. That’s the core idea behind this week’s blog—retailers love busy stores, but most actually perform worse when volume spikes. Conversion drops, ticket size slides, and the floor gets chaotic fast. In […]
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Buy now pay later specialist Zilch raises $176.7 million as it ramps up agentic commerce focus

Zilch (a FinTech firm that launched in 2020) has raised $176.7 million in debt and equity. Led by KKCG, the round includes participation from BNF Capital, and several other investors. It also includes the expansion of its securitisation led by Deutsche Bank. This follows the recent launch of Intelligent Commerce, an AI powered platform that […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

How consumers will get through the holidays

​[[“value”:” Tariff and inflation jitters have colored U.S. consumers’ outlook for much of the year, and now the holiday shopping season is commencing with a sense of instability across income levels. This year, optimism about the economy took a turn for the worse, and recently even dipped among higher-income consumers, according to William Blair analysts […]
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  1. Data & Insights

3Q25 Financial Services PM Chartbook

Access the 3Q25 Financial Services PM Chartbook A concise yet comprehensive resource featuring over 20+ slides of charts, tables, and insights on key trends and performance drivers across our Financial Services tickers. This streamlined resource provides a quick, high-level read while capturing the essential data and bigger-picture insights you need. Inside the Chartbook: Consumer Credit: […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

How Payment Data is Shaping the Future of Retail

Retailers have endured something of a rollercoaster ride over the last few years, but the good news is that, even as continuing price rises eat into available spending power, consumer spending remains robust. The question now is: how can retailers make the most of consumer resilience? According to the Lloyds Bank Business Barometer, released in […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Adobe Forecasts Fall Prime Day Spend will Grow 6.2% to $9 Billion

Like its summer predecessor, the fall version of Prime Day — Prime Big Deals Days, taking place Oct. 7-8 — has become a major sales opportunity for more than just Amazon. Multiple competitors, including giants such as Walmart, Target and Best Buy, run their own deal days the same week as they seek to take […]
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  1. Corporate Finance

Small businesses ‘need to keep up’ with rise of mobile payments

New figures from UK Finance show that over half of UK adults now use mobile wallets to pay, and that Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) is rising sharply across all age groups. According to the data, some 78% of 16 to 24-year-olds regularly used mobile… This story continues at Small businesses ‘need to keep up’ […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Lost Bitcoin Wallet Passwords Fuel Rise of Crypto Recovery Services

Source: Crypto Recovers (EZ Newswire) ZOETERMEER, Netherlands — Billions of dollars in Bitcoin are locked away due to forgotten passwords, misplaced recovery phrases and discarded hardware. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis estimated in 2020 that about 20% of all mined Bitcoin may be inaccessible. More recent research from Unchained Capital suggests as many as 3.8 million […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Lloyds Banking Group preps deal to buy digital wallet technology specialist Curve for £120m

Lloyds Banking Group is working on deal to buy Curve, a provider of digital wallet technology, and could announce the acquisition for around £120 million as soon as this week. A Sky News report, citing city sources, states that the terms of a transaction have been agreed, although a formal announcement might not be made […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Your Views:  Tariff Impacts

On the subject of the impact of tariffs on the industry, and the degree to which higher grocery prices are stressing out a large percentage of shoppers, one MNB reader wrote: We’re going to see some grocers yoyo pricing as they try to keep up with what they’re paying for inventory from week to week. […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Including Gopuff, Veloq, Specsavers, and Vinted: last week’s biggest retail technology plays at a glance

RTIH rounds up the stand out retail systems deals, launches, deployments and pilots from the past seven days. Including Tommy Bahama, Aptos, Gibson, Pizza Pilgrims, Boot Barn, Sona, Jewells, NewStore, Royal Mail, Nike, and Affirm. Specsavers Specsavers has announced a £5 million investment over a two year period to fund the expansion and upgrade of […]
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What features define a reliable virtual office in the UK?

A business without a desk. A team without an office. Welcome to the new era of work!  Virtual offices used to be alternative solutions, but they now serve as the primary infrastructure for UK companies seeking to transform how business is conducted. From FinTech startups in Glasgow to consultants with offices in London, professionals are […]
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Walmart to Expand Digital Shelf Labels Chainwide

Walmart will deploy digital shelf labels (DSLs) chainwide this year, doubling the approximately 2,300 U.S. locations currently using the technology (Walmart U.S. operates more than 4,600 stores). With more than 120,000 items in a typical Walmart store, managing price changes manually requires significant associate hours. Additionally, these DSLs are equipped with LED lights that make […]
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