This week in grocery, Ocado sees consumers cutting items from their list as competitors digitize. United Kingdom online grocer Ocado Retail, a joint venture between...
The National Retail Federation says 2022 holiday sales grew 5.3%, missing an earlier forecast. That was due to ongoing inflation and steep interest rates, the...
Officially it’s called Retail’s Big Show, but NRF 2023 was also about Retail’s Big Tech. As in, the retail industry’s increasing embrace of Big Tech...
The National Retail Federation (NRF) 2023 Retail’s Big Show starting Sunday (Jan. 15) is hyper-focused on in-store experiences. That’s not to say that eCommerce won’t...
A record number of Americans shopped during Cyber Five. During the five days from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, 196.7 million Americans shopped in stores...
Facing brazen and widely reported thefts, retailers are deploying a variety of new deterrents while also balancing these measures with the need to maintain an...
Inflation can’t scare off Halloween, with spending on candy, decorations, costumes and accessories expected to reach a record $10.6 billion, topping last year’s high of...
The term “friendly fraud” sounds like an oxymoron, but in truth, there’s nothing friendly about it. It’s what happens when a consumer purposely makes a...
How much do you love your mom? Asked that question and most of us say something sentimental like “infinity,” but the National Retail Federation (NRF)...