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It’s Time for Apple to End Its Culture of Secrecy

Apple has long thrilled the public by keeping its products secret and releasing them in high-gloss events with “one more thing” surprises. The company’s marketing magic has made its launch events must-see-TV, with audiences held in suspense knowing they might learn something new at any moment. These signature events, backed by strong product execution, helped […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Instacart Debuts AI-Powered Tools to Supercharge Healthy Food Shopping

Instacart has introduced Smart Shop, which leverages generative AI and machine learning to create a more personalized grocery shopping experience. The platform also has unveiled AI-powered Health Tags that provide detailed nutrition information across its catalog, as well as curated Inspiration Pages featuring expert-backed health recommendations and shoppable recipes. The initial Inspiration Page was developed […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The Playlist That Sells: Music Strategy, AI Trust & Team Games

Ever noticed how the right song can put you in the mood to shop? You’re not imagining it! This week, we’re unpacking research showing how strategic in-store music can boost your sales by a whopping 37% and keep customers browsing longer. We’ll also dive into why shoppers are still giving AI shopping assistants the side-eye […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

The Home Depot Launches New Suite of Gen AI Tools for Customers

The Home Depot has unveiled Magic Apron, a proprietary suite of generative AI tools designed to help customers with their home improvement needs and projects. Magic Apron is available 24/7 on homedepot.com and the Home Depot mobile app. It is embedded into millions of product pages to summarize product reviews, answer specific how-to questions as […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Wayfair wants AI images to stoke IRL purchases

​[[{“value”:” Dive Brief The online home goods retailer created a Pinterest-like website for design inspiration powered by generative AI that links to its shoppable catalog. Published Feb. 12, 2025 A screenshot of Wayfair’s Muse tool with a search result for “ethereal blue bathroom.” The AI tool recommends Wayfair products to match style searches by users. Screenshot […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

J.C. Penney launches business-to-business website for bulk orders

​[[{“value”:” Dive Brief The department store has a new digital tool that offers its catalog and personalized product support for companies and nonprofits. Published Feb. 5, 2025 By Tatiana Walk-Morris A J.C. Penney store. The retailer recently partnered with Sparc Group to launch Catalyst Brands. Daphne Howland/Retail Dive “}]] 
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  1. Department: Consumer Durables

JCPenney Launches New Ecommerce Site for Business Customers

JCPenney has launched a new business-to-business website to offer customers a more seamless and personalized experience when purchasing durable goods and bulk items. The website offers small businesses and nonprofits access to JCPenney’s vast catalog of brands, including St. John’s Bay, Liz Claiborne and Worthington, and products spanning home, footwear and apparel categories. After businesses, […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Including Wolt, Currys, and Simbe: our biggest retail technology articles on LinkedIn right now

We’re big fans of LinkedIn and are busy building an amazing community of retail tech enthusiasts on the social media platform. As we get ready to cross the 20,000 followers mark, these are the articles that are currently on their radars, including Joybird, 3D Cloud, Retail247, Snappy Shopper, Reckon.ai, Ikea, NewStore, Zelt, Outdoor and Cycle […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS

During this past AWS re:Invent, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared valuable lessons learned from Amazon’s own experience developing nearly 1,000 generative AI applications across the company. Drawing from this extensive scale of AI deployment, Jassy offered three key observations that have shaped Amazon’s approach to enterprise AI implementation. First is that as you get to […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

AI Successes from L’Oréal, Lowe’s and Walmart Bring Context to the AI Conversation

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a headline topic at the National Retail Federation’s annual Big Show, and NVIDIA is undoubtedly one of the companies leading the industry’s innovation in this sector. Typically known for its Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which power breakthrough technologies for companies like Meta and Open AI, NVIDIA is now staking a […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Including Simbe, Whatnot, bpost, and DoorDash: this week’s biggest retail technology stories

2025 is up and running, it’s nearly the weekend, so let’s kick back and reflect on another eventful week for the retail systems space. Here’s your briefing on the most important stories from the past few days, including N Brown Group, Akeneo, Ibotta, PittaRosso, Scarpe&Scarpe, Impact Analytics, Dentsu, Differin, and Dubit. 1. N Brown wraps […]
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  1. Stores & Formats

November 2024 US Consumer Spending: restaurants surge, apparel falls

Access chart in Dash. The Earnest Analytics Spend Index powered by Vela Gamma transaction data fell 0.3 YoY in November, with a deceleration in credit card spending more than offsetting an acceleration in debit card after steep acceleration in October.  Results from major merchant category codes (MCC) in descending order of total sales: Grocery Stores, […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Making ‘Adaptive Retail’ Work for Retailers of All Sizes

As the path to purchase evolves, “adaptive retail” is the latest term that’s set to take hold of marketers’ lexicons. But what exactly does this term mean? In short, “adaptive retail,” or adaptive retail strategies, refers to tailored shopping experiences that focus on giving shoppers exactly what they want through convenience, personalization and seamless shopping […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The top five PIM solutions shaping the future of HVAC

With the increasing complexity of product data across multiple platforms, the HVAC industry is grappling with managing product data more and more. For companies to stay competitive, efficient solutions are necessary, which will control data management and accuracy. Product information management (PIM) solutions are essential to fulfill these demands. In this article, the PIM solutions […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

The Weekly Closeout: Primark plans a Manhattan flagship and Walmart expands pet offerings

​[[{“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week and what we’re still thinking about.  From Amazon’s “record-breaking” fall sales event to […]
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  1. Stores & Formats

Iconic outdoor retailer Orvis will lay off 8% of workforce, close stores

​[[{“value”:” Dive Brief The 170-year-old Vermont-based retailer, known for its workwear and fishing gear, will also trim its assortment and drop its famous catalog. Published Oct. 9, 2024 Orvis will close a “limited number” of its 80 or so stores, part of a turnaround rolling out over the next year and a half. Cara Salpini/Retail […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Expanding your Feedprint is the key to unlocking ecommerce revenue

​[[“value”:” After a certain point, small tweaks to an online channel strategy can only do so much.   Brands experiencing growth slowdowns may be brushing up against the limits of the channels they currently sell on, even though they are constantly optimizing their branding and campaigns.   To scale effectively, sellers must focus on two key factors […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Heidi Klum ‘Modelverse’ Lets Players Walk a Virtual Catwalk in Roblox

Supermodel Heidi Klum has launched Modelverse, a new digital fashion experience in Roblox. Developed in partnership with Supersocial, a creative studio that specializes in virtual world development, Modelverse gives gamers the chance to model in exclusive events inspired by VIP gatherings including award shows, high-fashion events and Klum’s renowned annual Halloween party. Players can tap […]
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  1. Stores & Formats

Saks Delves into a New Luxury Category — Fine Art

Saks Fifth Avenue has introduced a new category to its stores and online offerings — a collection of more than 100 limited-edition contemporary print works from notable artists. Saks hopes to establish itself as “a destination for fine art,” with a “distinctive offering” that complements the lifestyle of the luxury consumer, said the company in […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

HomeByMe research focuses on supercharging home improvement customer experiences

Home improvement retailers are under constant scrutiny today. Every customer interaction, whether online or in-store, is a chance to earn a positive review – or risk a negative one. And a staggering 95% of consumers read online reviews as part of their purchasing journey for home products (Brand Rated). So, how can furniture and DIY […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Catching up with Confer With: these are our biggest retail technology articles on LinkedIn this week

We’re big fans of LinkedIn and are busy building an amazing community of retail tech enthusiasts on the social media platform. As we head towards the 20,000 followers mark, these are the articles that are currently on their radars, including Partridge Jewellers, Red Ant, East of England Co-op, RELEX Solutions, Iceland, Oh Polly, Order Editing, […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Blueprint for a hypothetical martech “holding company” for a world where aggregation beats consolidation

For 13 years of the ever-expanding martech landscape, conventional wisdom has predicted that our industry would consolidate. That conventional wisdom has failed spectacularly. Or more accurately, the conventional wisdom of the software industry from 10, 20, 30 years ago has been disrupted by new dynamics, in a new environment. The barriers to creating software are […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

5 performance tactics to boost your holiday sales

​[[{“value”:” With the largest shopping season of the year approaching—and with it the largest sales targets—retailers must be up-to-date with the latest consumer behavior trends and shopping habits if they hope to hit their Q4 goals. To understand what shoppers want this holiday season, we turn to Pinterest, where people go to plan all things […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The Power of Accessibility.

Accessibility is a key to successful businesses and individuals. Accessibility is defined as the quality of being easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, use, or understand. Every individual and business should audit themselves on how accessible they are. a)        Do we speak simply without using buzz-word bingo and with authenticity, clarity and empathy? b)        […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Trend spotlight: What The Gauge shows us about media convergence

For three years now, we’ve been publishing a monthly recap of total broadcast, cable and streaming consumption on TV screens around the country. It’s called The Gauge™, and it’s underpinned by Nielsen’s leading audience measurement services across streaming and linear TV. A quick read each month, The Gauge is full of juicy insights on the […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Amazon Seeks to Boost Just Walk Out Accuracy with AI-Powered Model

Amazon’s newly AI-powered Just Walk Out (JWO) system can now simultaneously process data from multiple sources, including overhead cameras, weight sensors on shelves and RFID, to more accurately connect products to the customers purchasing them. This new multi-modal foundation model uses the same machine learning models underlying generative AI applications, but applies them to the […]
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  1. Data & Insights

How-To Brand Tactics for Better Retail Media Marketing | DSI

“It’s so important for retailers listening [to this podcast] to make sure they are hearing their brands and listening to the way that brands want to invest. It’s not enough to just say and put out that you have a [retail media] offering, and to do that in isolation and not compare it to how […]
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  1. Merchandising

Artlist Revolutionizes Video Creation with AI Voiceover Feature

Artlist, a creative technology company that provides a vast catalog of royalty-free digital assets to empower brands and content creators worldwide, today announced its latest offering — an in-product AI voiceover generator for video creators. This groundbreaking feature marks a new era in content creation and another significant step in Artlist’s mission to empower brands and […]
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  1. Operations & Supply Chain

How a retailer’s global sourcing operation can be as simple as online shopping

​[[“value”:” Effectively maintaining inventory can be difficult, especially for retailers trying to manage a vast product catalog for large consumer bases. According to a survey of business owners by Alibaba.com, difficulty forecasting demand (23%) and unrealistic consumer expectations for delivery times (20%) were key pain points for business owners trying to manage inventory. The inventory […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

The “Cowboy Carter Effect” — Increasing young Black listeners’ engagement with country music

While some are still debating how to define country music, others like Urban One’s 93Q in Houston embraced the cultural moment sparked by Beyoncé’s latest release—and across the audio landscape, so did listeners. On the day of Cowboy Carter’s release, music video network Vevo reported a 38% increase in views of country music videos globally.  […]
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Walgreens Agrees to $10B Sycamore Partners Acquisition

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has finalized a deal with private equity firm Sycamore Partners to take the company private after being in the stock market for nearly 100 years. Sycamore will pay $11.45 per share in cash for the Walgreens business, according to a company announcement. Shareholders can receive up to $3 more per share […]
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Kroger Announces Resignation of CEO Rodney McMullen

The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) today announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rodney McMullen has resigned from the Company following a Board investigation of his personal conduct that, while unrelated to the business, was inconsistent with Kroger's Policy on Business Ethics.
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Valentine’s Day flower sales could shift to FTD, other brands in 2025

1-800-Flowers still leads in US, FTD is gaining share 1-800-Flowers is the largest flower service by sales headed into Valentine’s Day 2025, according to Earnest credit card data. However, the industry stalwart is likely to lose share this season if recent trends continue. Access chart in Dash. 1-800-Flowers commanded 37.0% of Valentine’s Day flower sales […]
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