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Macy’s revamped half its stores and customers followed
As it improves merchandising and customer experience at 200-plus stores, some analysts now see the department store taking share from weaker rivals.
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Sponsored by Saddle Creek Logistics ServicesWhat brands need to know about retail compliance before expanding wholesale
Retail growth starts with compliance. Here’s what brands need to know before scaling wholesale.
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Retailers turn to AI for productivity, personalized shopping
Best Buy, Gap and Dick’s Sporting Goods detailed how AI investments were reshaping their businesses during their Q1 earnings calls.
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QVC celebrates 40th anniversary with TikTok Shop event
Amid QVC Group’s bankruptcy proceedings, the company is promoting a live event, a new podcast and the release of a documentary.
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Inside Belk’s latest collaboration with Sewing Down South
The third iteration of their partnership includes an expansion into jewelry and the return of a pop-up store in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Ulta’s prestige beauty shines despite consumer pressure
The retailer's sales jumped 11% in Q1 with the help of higher-end offerings. Meanwhile, the company is plotting an experiential store in New York City.
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Target’s ‘food-forward’ strategy includes supply chain improvements, too
The retailer’s newest and largest food facility to date replenishes the nearly 130 stores it serves up to two days faster than before.
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What Mattress Firm gained from contactless delivery
The shipping option has added customer flexibility and freed up drivers’ time despite early hurdles, executives said.
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Steph Curry trades Under Armour partnership for a deal with Li-Ning
The NBA star broke ties with his former partner in November and will now focus on growing the Curry Brand under a Chinese sportswear company.
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Victoria’s Secret expects sales to top $7B this year
The lingerie giant’s “promo detox” meant more full-price selling in Q1, and both the namesake and Pink brands took market share.
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ColumnThe Weekly Closeout: Burlington plots store openings, Mattel expands Brick Shop
The off-price retailer plans to open over 100 new locations this year, while the toy company debuted new brick sets featuring Lamborghini and Chevrolet.
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Costco’s personalization effort drives $500M in digital sales
Personalized product recommendation carousels drive three times higher digital conversion rates than usual, CFO Gary Millerchip said.
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Amazon reveals Prime Day dates
The e-commerce company moved the event to June, and is encouraging shoppers to use its Alexa for Shopping AI tech.
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Why Everlane and Shein are actually a good match
The direct-to-consumer apparel brand resorted to fast fashion — and broke its promises — well before its deal with the Chinese low-price leader.
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Dollar General sales soar as customers trade down at ‘accelerated’ rate
The discount retailer’s Q1 sales jumped 3.4% as rural shoppers see an outsized impact from increased gas prices.
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Pink hires chief merchandising officer
Victoria’s Secret & Co. tapped a longtime Anthropologie executive for the new role, which comes as CEO Hillary Super has recommitted to the subbrand.
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Mass retailers draw level with supermarkets as primary grocery destinations
People have become just as likely to cite a retailer like Walmart or Target as a supermarket when asked where they spend most of their food budget, according to data from FMI.
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Amazon offers AI agent tech to other retailers
The online retail behemoth wants to narrow the time it takes for retailers to launch AI shopping assistants, starting with Kate Spade.
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J.C. Penney rebound stalls in the holiday quarter
The department store made some strides in its turnaround last year but ended fiscal 2025 with weakness on the top and bottom lines.
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Target, Walmart vie for beauty customers
The retailers are investing in ways to court beauty consumers away from specialty retailers, trying new staffing models and remixing the merchandising assortment.
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Even with Sydney Sweeney, American Eagle struggles to sell women’s bottoms
While the brand faced softer trends in the category, Aerie’s comparable sales grew 25% in Q1.
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Walmart: Store-fulfilled deliveries getting faster
Over 36% of deliveries from stores arrived in three hours or less in Q1, with quicker speeds fueling customer engagement, CFO John David Rainey said.
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Following Shein sale, Everlane founder launches new brand
"Same principles, but a new take. And this time: no venture capital, no private equity," Michael Preysman writes on the brand’s site, which for now is just collecting emails.
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Fashion misses at Old Navy spell trouble for Gap Inc.
Internal flubs, not customer malaise, were the cause and have been addressed, Gap Inc. CEO Richard Dickson said Thursday. But is competition from off price a growing problem for the value brand?
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Consumer sentiment falls to new low; cost of living ‘first-order’ worry
A sustained rise in long-run inflation expectations would likely increase the odds that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates.
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Deep Dive5 reasons why Saks Global’s post-bankruptcy forecast is far-fetched
The luxury giant expects to achieve margins and growth that department stores haven’t seen in years.
