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In-store AI is quietly driving faster sales growth for early adopters, even though most of the impact runs behind the scenes in operations and marketing. Unpack where AI is delivering real, measurable value across inventory, customer experience, and building performance.

E-Commerce

Multi-Channel Selling

How Smart Building Technology Transforms Stores

Paid acquisition keeps getting more expensive—but reaching new customers doesn't have to. Join Retail Brew and industry experts to learn how marketplaces can diversify revenue, expand your customer base, and take pressure off paid media while maintaining control over your brand.


Lower Your Ad Spend and Reach New Customers? Sold!

Retailers are facing constant pressure from tariffs, freight costs, supplier disruptions, and shifting global markets. Join Retail Brew and Oracle NetSuite to learn how retail leaders are using cost, inventory, and profitability data to evaluate pricing, sourcing, and fulfillment decisions while protecting margins in an unpredictable environment.

Stores

Supply Chain Strategy

Margins Under Pressure: How Retailers are Navigating Supply Chain Volatility 

Retail Brew delivers the latest retail industry news and insights surrounding marketing, DTC, and e-commerce to keep leaders and decision-makers up to date.

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Jordyn Grzelewski

Illustration: Morning Brew Inc., Photo: Adobe Stock

How new behaviors are rewriting the path to purchase, and what it means for brands trying to keep up.

Creator Commerce

The trust economy: How peers, creators, and live audiences replaced the sales pitch

Morning Brew Creative Studio

Intuit

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Consumer Behavior & Trends

BNPL could level the small-business playing field

Local & Small Business Support

Jumping to ‘buy now’ with a safety net of ‘pay later’

Vidhi Choudhary

How retailers can interpret shopper data to maximize impact.

A Retailer's guide to mastering customer data

Erin Cabrey

A divide once existed between prestige and mass beauty retailers. Now, with recent moves from Walmart and Target, the lines have blurred. 

Physical Retail Strategy

Everyone wants to be a prestige beauty retailer now

Jeena Sharma

With seven more stores slated for 2026 and roughly 15 planned for 2027, the Western wear brand is balancing physical growth with e-commerce and wholesale.

How Tecovas is spreading ‘radical hospitality’ across the US

Andrew Adam Newman

With production financing through Bridge, Dog Sauce got funding after its bank said no. 

Manufacturing

This startup got a dream order from Walmart. Fulfilling it almost turned into a nightmare.

The Tinuiti study also found those users more apt to resell or rent clothing. 

Purchase Frequency

GLP-1 users much more likely to increase clothing spending

Ron Johnson says AI won’t shift people from physical stores to online, or vice versa.

Apple’s former head of retail on brick and mortar today

Goodyear opened a store in Detroit on Aug. 15 as it revamps retail and marketing strategies.

Concept Stores

Goodyear taps into auto history, enthusiasm with new retail concept

Marketing

As higher prices and new ways to shop emerge, brands must view loyalty as more than just repeat purchases.

Loyalty Programs

These are the keys to establishing brand loyalty today

Analysts believe the retailer’s mix of aspirational price points, brand heritage, and lifestyle marketing is helping it outperform while bringing new customers in.

Pricing Strategies

While luxury struggles, Ralph Lauren is selling more at higher prices

Alex Vuocolo

Even in the age of AI, retailers continue to bet big on brick and mortar.

The state of stores

About face 

The blurring lines of prestige and mass beauty.

He’s CEO of XCCommerce. 

Promotional Strategy

Coworking with Danny Rosenoff

The battery-powered Charlie can avoid costly electrical upgrades—and bake cookies in the showroom. 

Wirecutter called it the ‘Tesla of induction stoves.’ Now it’s taking physical retail for a spin

Per BCG’s latest survey, quality still beats price, while AI gains influence.

Value Perception Shifts

What does ‘value’ mean to shoppers in 2026?

While Dollar General adds more $1 items, Dollar Tree is adding more price points and raising average ticket value. 

Discount Stores

Dollar Tree and Dollar General see increased traffic with different approaches to pricing

Many consumers are worried there will be a pullback in discounts this year, and yet promotions have never been more important for getting shoppers in the door. 

Customer Journey

Shoppers fear a discount gap this holiday season. Here’s how retailers are responding

Everyone wants to be a prestige beauty retailer now

The Latest Retail Industry News

Coworking with Danny Rosenoff

Wirecutter called it the ‘Tesla of induction stoves.’ Now it’s taking physical retail for a spin

What does ‘value’ mean to shoppers in 2026?

Dollar Tree and Dollar General see increased traffic with different approaches to pricing

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How Tecovas is spreading ‘radical hospitality’ across the US

This startup got a dream order from Walmart. Fulfilling it almost turned into a nightmare.

GLP-1 users much more likely to increase clothing spending

Apple’s former head of retail on brick and mortar today

Events

How Smart Building Technology Transforms Stores

Lower Your Ad Spend and Reach New Customers? Sold!

Margins Under Pressure: How Retailers are Navigating Supply Chain Volatility

Resources

The trust economy: How peers, creators, and live audiences replaced the sales pitch

The state of stores

Shoppers fear a discount gap this holiday season. Here’s how retailers are responding

The trust economy: How peers, creators, and live audiences replaced the sales pitch

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