(Infographic) Retail Spending Over Time by Vertical and Region
Just 14% of retail spend goes to apparel and footwear in America, but it accounts for 32% in Asia...
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Amazon Orders 100,000 Electric Delivery Vans From the Tesla Rival R...
The first electric van will be an Amazon exclusive, and will help reduce the retailer's carbon fo...
Machine Learning Dominates AI Use for Retailers
Crystals are a mainstay in the toolkit of any spiritually woke millennial. You’ll find them litt...
Simbe Robotics Raises $26M for Autonomous Inventory Robots
Robots are coming for the grocery aisle, and that’s because they promise to save storeowners inv...
Mobile Payment Usage Is Growing, but Cash and Cards Still Have Thei...
Consumers today have more payment options than ever. Mobile payment platforms like Apple Pay, Goo...
Syte Snaps Up $21.5M for Its Smartphone-Based Visual Search Engine...
Visual search has become a key component for how people discover products when buying online: If...
Jaden Smith’s Just Water Just Hit $100M Valuation
Even if he was just a tween at the time, Jaden Smith wanted to make a difference. After seeing pl...
Amazon Tests Whole Foods Payment System That Uses Hands as ID
A sci-fi greeting inspired by a classic TV franchise just might be the point-of-sale answer for e...
(M&A) Upstart ‘Le Tote’ To Acquire Nearly Two Century Old Retaile...
In another sign of trouble for traditional retailers, iconic department store Lord & Taylor h...
The Rise of Premium Private Label and its Impact on Discount Retailers
Stigma and stereotypes have faded for store brands and name brands, respectively. The premium ass...
(Infographic) What Brick-and-Mortar Shoppers Care About Most
Families earning $25,000 to $50,000 a year account for a quarter of brick-and-mortar shoppers.Bri...
5 Innovative Ideas in Sustainable Beauty Packaging
Every year, over 120 billion units of packaging are produced by the global beauty industry. From...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Invisible Hand : On The Path to Autonomous Pla...
It’s not news to food retailers: sometimes your stocks are too high, sometimes they’re too low....
(Infographic) Where the World’s Banks Make the Most Money
Profits in banking have been steadily on the rise since the financial crisis. Just last year, the...
Nielsen Predicts Legal Cannabis Sales In The U.S. To Reach $41 Bill...
Although a large sector of cannabis products remain illegal under U.S. federal law, state-legaliz...
Amazon’s Tiny Profits, Explained
It’s all about investing in the future. With Amazon, “profit” is not as simple as looking at t...
Gen Zers Are Turning to BOPUS for Instant Gratification
These days, a dominant proportion of Gen Z consumers in the US are taking advantage of "buy onlin...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Chinese Luxury Consumer
Chinese consumers are now the engine of worldwide growth in luxury spending. The fast-expanding b...
Indonesia Coffee Startups Draw VC Investment as Java Booms
Kopi Kenangan and Fore prove a hit with Luckin Coffee's grab and go model.[Although a coffee at F...
Rivian Plans To Sell An Electric SUV In 2020 — Behind The Hype On...
Rivian is making headlines for its massive funding rounds and promise to push the boundaries for...
Amazon Share Declining Amidst Online CPG Sales Growth
Amazon remains the leader in online consumer packaged goods (CPG), continuing to outpace the comp...
Speeding Past Instacart, Walmart Grocery is Top U.S. Online Grocery...
Speeding past Instacart, Walmart Grocery is top U.S. online grocery service.When Americans think...
Sequoia Leads $40M Investment in Mobile Messaging Startup Attentive
Attentive, a startup helping retailers personalize their mobile messages, is announcing that it h...
Chinese Smartphone Brands Take 62% of Southeast Asia’s 30.7 Millio...
The Southeast Asian smartphone market grew modestly in Q2 2019, by 2% year on year, with 30.7 mil...
The Walton Family Gets $100M Richer Every Single Day
The family behind Walmart tops the Bloomberg list of the world’s wealthiest families. In the hou...
Many Americans Are Looking For A Bar Experience Without the Buzz
The “sober curious” movement is turning the tables on what a typical night out looks like for m...
Cashierless Stores Make Inroads in U.S. - Sam’s Club
Sam’s Club, Giant Eagle and others are exploring the use of AI systems after Amazon Go paved the...
(PDF) Deloitte - The Future of Retail Metrics
Convergence in retail moving to channel-agnostic approaches.Over the past decade, traditional ret...
North America Luxury Stocks Drop as Hong Kong Protests Mount
Tiffany & Co., Estee Lauder Cos., Movado Group Inc. and other North America luxury-goods stoc...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Unlocking Business Acceleration in a Hybrid Cloud...
Companies that have moved operations to the cloud still aren’t achieving the desired operational...
(Patent) Apple Wins Autonomous Vehicle Patent that provides an iPho...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 54 newly granted patents fo...
Battle of the Brands : Consumer Disloyalty is Sweeping the Globe
Now more than ever, global consumers are flirting with and cheating on their favorite brands—man...
