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From Compliance to Competitive Advantage: Maximizing 2D Barcode Impact Ahead of Sunrise 2027
The start of the new year brings the retail industry closer to an important inflection point. By the beginning of 2027, every point of sale (POS) system must be able…
Executive Viewpoints January 8
PepsiCo Deploys AI-Powered Digital Twins of Manufacturing Facilities to Test Expansion Plans
PepsiCo is using AI agents and physics-based digital twins as “co-designers” to simulate, validate and optimize manufacturing and supply chain facility layouts before any physical building takes place. It’s part…
News January 7
Pinterest to Debut Shoppable TV Series with Partners Including Wayfair, Michaels
Pinterest unveiled plans at CES for a new DIY lifestyle TV series, Bring My Pinterest to Life, that will debut in March on Roku. Across six episodes, Creators Drew Michael Scott,…
News January 7
Holiday Ecommerce Sales Near $260 Billion with AI Driving 20% of Transactions
Consumers set new records for ecommerce sales during the 2025 holiday season, climbing 6.8% YoY for a total of $257.8 billion, according to the Adobe 2025 Holiday Shopping Trends report.…
News January 7
Target’s New Year’s Resolution: More Wellness (30% More, in Fact)
Target plans to double down on wellbeing in 2026, expanding its wellness assortment 30% and adding new wellness-focused in-store and digital experiences. The expanded wellness assortment will include additions in…
News January 7
Ditching Discounts: Building Loyalty and LTV with Smarter Ads
A well-known retailer who will remain nameless threw a huge promotion. Holiday promos had crushed their targets: record traffic, record orders a wall of green flashing dashboards. But the hangover…
Executive Viewpoints January 7
Retail Executives’ 2026 Legislative Wish List
2025 was a demonstration, if any were needed, of the enormous impact that governmental actions can have on retail, from the frequently postponed TikTok ban (settled, at least for now)…
Features January 7
Nespresso Opens NYC Flagship Brimming with Coffee-Flavored Experiential Retail
Nespresso has opened its latest flagship store in NYC’s Flatiron district, the eighth — and largest — of its kind in the world. The first floor of the 13,900-square-foot space…
News January 6
Albertsons Media Collective Launches Store-Level Measurement to Gauge Ads’ True Impact
Albertsons Media Collective (AMC), the retail media network operated by supermarket giant Albertsons, has unveiled in-store incrementality measurement capabilities designed to determine which sales were motivated by exposure to ads…
News January 6
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