Browsing: retail

Retail has always evolved around a central promise. First it was price and scale. Then convenience and speed. More recently, brand and experience took the lead.…

Young people inspired by secondhand fashion websites such as Vinted and Depop are helping charity shops thrive despite rising energy and employment costs.Save the Children’s retail…

AI in the APAC retail sector is transitioning from analytics and pilots into workflows and daily operations.Dense urban stores, high labour churn, and competitive quick-commerce ecosystems…

Retail decisions often depend on weekly performance reports, but compiling those reports can take hours of manual work. Urban Outfitters Inc. (URBN) is testing a new…

Big retailers are committing more heavily to agentic AI-led commerce, and accepting some loss of customer proximity and data control in the process. As reported by…

One of First Insight’s core claims is that Ellis makes consumer insight accessible outside of specialist analytics teams. Natural-language queries, the company argues, lets senior executives…

With a clear view of what drives demand, retailers can turn holiday energy into long-term success.

Zara is testing how far generative AI can be pushed into everyday retail operations, starting with a part of the business that rarely gets attention in…