Studies of decluttering, time poverty, and “de-influencing” all suggest consumers want less. The marketplace tells a more complicated story. Consumers haven’t stopped spending; they have become far more deliberate about what earns their money. The basket is becoming a portfolio, and every item in it has to earn its place.
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By transforming the physical store from a black box into a source of real-time intelligence, spatial intelligence provides retailers with new insights to drive revenue and profits.
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Billions of dollars’ worth of refunds have been issued, and America’s retailers have used
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Join Haley and Maria as they dig into her journey of developing bio-based engineering and design with tech advanced tools. Maria describes her passion to change an industry and find alternatives to fossil-fuel based fibers, expendable apparel that pollutes unregulated environments, and unsafe clothing manufacturing conditions. Listen, learn, and be inspired.
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The latest sourcing choice for U.S. importers? Surprise! It’s China. The Trump tariffs were supposed to punish China by driving American companies to shift their buying to other countries. It hasn’t quite worked out that way. So, it’s back to the tariff future.
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Join Shelley and Dan Altman, author of the High Yield Economics newsletter, as they unpack why the K-shaped economy is persisting, and why diversified supply chains and revenue streams are a survival strategy for retail leaders.
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The thing about slow burns is that they are usually unnoticeable until it’s too late. Think of a forest fire. In context of retail, we are veering toward a commodity culture, a marketplace of imitation marketing and product development, and an increasingly transactional mentality.
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New systems cannot replace bad processes and a misaligned culture to compete for success. When owning a process matters more than solving a problem, and the stated mission is not the rewarded behavior, AI cannot correct these dysfunctions; it only amplifies and accelerates them. The tool is never the question; the diagnosis is.
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The economic shockwaves of the Iran war have spread far beyond average American consumers, shaking their heads in disbelief or cursing at the gas pump. The businesses that depend on that shopper, which include every grocery retailer, food manufacturer, and CPG brand in the country, are sounding the alarm.
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Food rescue is the most underfunded climate and hunger solution on the planet. Grocers are finally waking up — but it’s going to take a lot more than trendy algorithms to bring retailers and consumers to their senses.
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