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Holiday Shopping With Gen AI. Here’s How I Fared

It comes with the cold and the falling leaves: The mounting horror that time is running out. It was already December and I hadn’t thought once about Christmas presents. I’m not an especially talented gift-giver, and my family doesn’t have easily satisfied tastes. Every year I find myself daydreaming about a polite, hypercompetent professional who […]
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Modernizing Retail Supply Chain Challenges With AI

The retail supply chain is undergoing a major transformation, driven by the rise of e-commerce and the increasing complexity of global supply chains. In Gartner’s 2023 Top Supply Chain Technology Trends report, “actionable AI” was named the No. 1 trend. This reflects the growing recognition among retailers that artificial intelligence is essential for modernizing and […]
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How Analytics Empower Retail Fleets to Confront Operational Expenses

While inflation has been kept in check for much of the broader economy over the last few months and diesel prices have declined, the cost of diesel fuel may have negative ripple effects across the economy, particularly for retail fleets. Demand for domestic transportation of goods is expected to increase in the coming months as […]
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With Customers Watching Their Wallets, Retailers Must Look at Loyalty

With consumer prices beginning to plateau, retailers are beginning to feel cautiously optimistic over their future revenue streams. However, the index remains up 3.2 percent from a year ago, and with federal student loans now due for the first time in over three years, this makes a recipe for wallet-conscious shoppers. Now, shoppers are cutting […]
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How Dynamic Markdowns Can Help Mitigate Food Waste

The United States has a startling food waste problem, much of it caused by the grocery retail market. Thirty percent of food in grocery stores is thrown away in the U.S., and 16 billion pounds of food is wasted by retailers every year, according to RTS data. In fact, the food that grocers waste is […]
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A Journey From Shameless Consumer to Conscious Consumer … and Maybe Even Eco-Warrior

Whether we all realize it or not, there has been a shift in the force. We’re changing our stripes as a consumer-based society. Where once choice was primarily driven only by factors like quality, price, brand affinity, and even endorsement, now other, larger existential factors are impacting how we make purchase decisions — namely, how […]
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How Traceability Can Help Fashion Brands Become More Sustainable

As consumers and government regulations call on companies to adopt increasingly sustainable practices, fashion brands need to rethink their approach to reducing their environmental impact. One of their key challenges is to achieve full visibility into all stages in the life cycle, from fiber-origin to retail. Without perfect traceability of the materials used, it’s extremely […]
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Datassential launches platform for food industry collaboration

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Where Food Comes From acquires certification program for upcycled foods

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How Place Powers Retail Brand Advantage

In 2017, pre-pandemic, Starbucks founder and Chairman, Howard Schultz, said that the way forward for brand-businesses is making your branded space an “experiential destination.” The Starbucks CEO, Kevin Johnson said, “To survive, merchants need to create unique and immersive in-store experiences.” Today, after several years of lock-downs, people are shopping outside of their homes. People […]
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Generative AI for E-Commerce: 5 Top Trends for 2024

In 2023, the e-commerce industry was largely focused on strengthening brand equity, enhancing the customer experience, and keeping up with the evolution fueled by new platforms and artificial intelligence-based technologies. Notably, the adoption of composable commerce, which refers to building a modular, component-based, cloud-native tech stack, empowered companies to build the agility required to remain […]
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Generative AI and the Future of Product Development

Imagine you’re shopping for a new dress. You have a vision of your colorful, dream dress, but you haven’t been able to find it anywhere online or in-store. But what if you could create it yourself with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)? Generative AI is fundamentally reshaping the product development process, offering many unique […]
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Navigating Consumers’ Social Shopping Trust Issues in 2024

Over the past few years, consumers have become hyperconnected online. What used to be individual tasks, like exchanging money or listening to music, are now opportunities for social networking among friends with apps like Venmo and Spotify. It was only a matter of time before shopping took to social platforms as well, and it has […]
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Home Depot Confirms Data Breach Exposed Employee Info

Home Depot has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after one of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors mistakenly exposed a small sample of limited employee data, which could potentially be used in targeted phishing attacks, reports Bleeping Computer. Last Thursday, a threat actor known as IntelBroker leaked limited data for approximately 10,000 Home Depot employees […]
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Hasbro Announces Job Cuts Amid Weak Toy Sales

Hasbro is laying off about 1,100 employees as the toy maker struggles with soft sales that have carried into the holiday shopping season, according to a company memo obtained by CNBC. Hasbro had about 6,300 employees as of earlier this year, according to a company fact sheet. The company, which already laid off hundreds of employees […]
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Healthy Family Project reaches milestone with Lowes Foods

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Beyond Trends: A Blueprint for Retailers to Embrace Sustainable Practices in 2024 and Beyond

As we begin 2024, the retail sector is witnessing a dynamic shift towards sustainability. Highlights of the millennial and Gen Z consumer trends almost always center around sustainability, with 72 percent and 77 percent of them, respectively, likely to pay more for environmentally-friendly products, according to the PDI Business of Sustainability Index. The behaviors of […]
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The Power of Back-in-Stock Email Marketing

For e-commerce brands, it’s not the year of the dragon, it’s the year of the back-in-stock message. Automated back-in-stock message sends have been on a multiyear rise. In 2023, brands sent 4x as many as the year before, generating 3x the number of orders than the year before. Back-in-stock messages perform exceptionally well compared to […]
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