Target's refreshed beauty assortment aims to promote emerging brands, but includes very few from Black entrepreneurs. Of the 90 brands listed as part of the new beauty assortment, Modern Retail could only identify two with Black owners or founders. A spokesperson said the collection was focused on beauty brands from around the world, pointing to Korean, Japanese, Mexican and French brands.
Tariff refunds are great news for the corporate balance sheets of big-box retailers, and less so for consumers tightly squeezing their wallets.
Tariff refunds continue to bolster the balance sheets of big retailers while consumers remain constrained by higher fuel prices and other macroeconomic factors.
Move over, Hello Kitty and Labubu. Retail's latest "it" girl is Miffy. Here's why brands from Starbucks to Calpak are lining up to work with the cartoon bunny.
Tariff refunds are great news for the corporate balance sheets of big-box retailers, and less so for consumers tightly squeezing their wallets.
Tapping into sports and fandom has been a major trend for brands this year, but Carhartt looked off the field.
Target's new beauty section in stores and online has attracted many new brands to the retailer for the first time. For some, this is their first entry into retail stores entirely.
Dick's Sporting Goods says it remains bullish on its Foot Locker business, even as it lowered its yearly guidance for the segment, citing "challenging conditions" in the athletic footwear market.
Ipsy is now offering marketing services as it looks to onboard new brands and court more customers.
While TikTok Shop is still fairly young, it's proving crucial to brands' sales across other channels, particularly Amazon.
A fresh round of Trump tariffs on Canadian goods were announced this week that target industries like dairy, alcohol and automobiles.
Nike says it’s in a better financial position as it awaits nearly $1 billion in refunds related to IEEPA tariffs.
Online merchants are encouraged by a new Trump administration effort to crack down on customs fraud after a surge in tariff evasion schemes rattled sellers over the past year.
By the end of this year, shoppers will finally be able to use Apple Pay and Google Pay in Walmart stores, ending years of frustration that the retailer didn’t support what is now a nearly ubiquitous payment option.
Sam’s Club merchants and brands will soon be able to use Walmart’s data analytics platform to better understand and predict member behavior.
AI is changing how retail commerce teams build, manage and scale integrations. But the next phase isn’t about generating more code — it’s about creating faster, more reliable workflows with the governance and controls needed to support retail operations. Sponsored by Celigo.
As the retail media landscape evolves, marketers are rethinking where they invest, how they measure success and which retail media networks deserve a larger share of budget. Although they once viewed retail media primarily as a lower-funnel performance channel, marketers are expanding their ad businesses beyond sponsored product listings into off-site media, streaming and full-funnel marketing.
The new CEO of Topgolf believes the brand has significant opportunities to grow revenue both within its entertainment venues and at outside retailers.
The Hershey Company has started using new AI tools to maximize sales performance of s’mores ingredients in stores — including its own chocolates, as well as marshmallows and graham crackers.
The latest celebrity brands to shut down are Messi’s Mas+ and Alex Cooper’s Unwell, proving that major buzz fades quickly in the saturated celebrity-led CPG space.
One of the common themes of Modern Retail’s recent Leaders Dinner was just how much retail today is a battle of inches. Margins are being eroded little by little by third-party fees, tariffs, increased operations costs and a thousand other small things.
This State of the Industry report, sponsored by Swap, explores how brands, retailers and agencies are adopting agentic commerce, including agentic storefronts, to enhance shopping experiences. Artificial intelligence is the new entry point in e-commerce, as more shoppers rely on AI-powered summaries and assistants to discover products. Beyond discovery and product recommendations, AI agents are […]
More companies are rolling out services to speed up shipping and delivery as the costs to deploy such systems comes down.
