What drives social influencers’ abilities to influence purchases?
A university study finds originality and follower size are among the common factors driving engageme...
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Retailers find inflation is often about location, location, location
Inflation is a top concern for both businesses and consumers currently, and rightfully so as the U.S...
Is Kroger lagging in e-commerce?
A columnist at The Wall Street Journal has found some “nits to pick” with Kroger following the groce...
Will candy consumers recycle their wrappers?
One of the biggest candy manufacturers is slowly rolling out a new, paper-based wrapper material in...
Walgreens rolls out 24/7 delivery and parents with sick kids do the happy dance
Walgreens is coming to the rescue of parents caring for sick kids in the middle of the night. The re...
Is the Kroger-Albertsons merger really a retail media deal?
Some market watchers see the biggest benefit from the proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons being...
Can Alexa find a path to monetization?
Echo devices continually rank among Amazon.com’s best sellers, but the Alexa business is reportedly...
Claire’s sets up shops inside of Macy’s stores
Macy’s has been pursuing opportunities to grow its business through store-within-a-store partnership...
Was the high-traffic Thanksgiving weekend a promise of things to come?
A record number of consumers in search of deals on holiday gifts went shopping in stores and online...
Will Shoppable Shorts become a viral sensation for YouTube?
YouTube in late 2020 launched its Shorts feature to keep up with a new generation of competing video...
Amazon and Asda go head-to-head in RetailWire’s Christmas Commercial Challenge
Will it be Amazon or Asda that joins Etsy, Kroger and Publix into the finals of the 2022 edition of...
What does the promotional climate mean for off-pricers and resale?
Major off-pricers have raised their full-year outlooks, confident in their ability to reposition the...
Do boring leaders make for better business results?
According to Harvard business administration professor Raffaella Sadun, the collapses of FTX and The...
Retailers are using newfound clout to put the squeeze on suppliers
With inventories elevated in many categories and the economy slowing amid inflationary pressures, la...
Is being the low price leader critical to Amazon’s ongoing success?
A study finds online prices are on average 13 percent less expensive on Amazon.com than other leadin...
Will a new shopping platform redefine the formula for AI-driven personalization?
Founded by Romney Evans, True Fit’s co-founder, a new shopping platform, Shoptrue, launched in beta...
Black Friday is back as record number of Americans are expected to go shopping
Americans may have started their Christmas shopping in July or October or some other point before th...
Do digital coupons discriminate against those who can least afford it?
Public interests groups are taking aim at digital couponing, saying that the practice is discriminat...
The direct-to-consumer kitchenware brand Our Place gets physical
The digital kitchenware site Our Place is one of the latest online-only brands to move into brick an...
Will John Lewis or Publix win the RetailWire Christmas Commercial Challenge?
Episode three of the RetailWire Christmas Commercial Challenge includes one of the most highly antic...