Across the retail industry, artificial intelligence is no longer viewed as an experimental capability or a future-state ...

Expected record demand for cruising this year has led the two biggest retail players—Starboard and Harding+—to fine-tune their strategies to lift onboard store sales.

As consumers grapple with whether to tip and how much to tip their food industry servers and other service providers, there's a new trend emerging: tipping retail workers. In a study by Lightspeed ...

A nationwide coordinated crackdown on retail crime — what authorities are calling the first of its kind — led to hundreds of arrests in 28 states last week. The blitz involved more than 100 ...

Stocks have been on a wild ride since President Donald Trump announced a slate of tariffs on April 2. In the four-session stretch ending Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than ...

Retail layoffs have soared in 2025, driven by new economic difficulties for the sector, its long term battles with reduced foot traffic, and the growing dominance of e-commerce, according to analysis ...

Several major retailers in the U.S. use a century-old accounting practice known as “the retail inventory method,” which relies on retail prices to estimate inventory, even though it fails to take full ...

US retail sales showed surprising strength during the back-to-school season – a sign that Trump’s tariffs haven’t yet cowed shoppers as the Federal Reserve weighs a decision on cutting rates.

The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report for September showed consumer spending was lower than expected, with headline sales rising 0.2% versus the expected 0.4% monthly growth. This is down ...

The AdExchanger Commerce Media Newsletter has been on a brief hiatus due to some in-court legal issues (Google’s, not my own) and the call of the conference circuit (Programmatic IO and Advertising ...

Spending at US retailers last month was much weaker than expected, in a troubling sign that the American shopper could be starting to tap out. Retail sales rose 0.2% in February from the prior month, ...