Warby Parker Chose to Build, Not Buy, Its Doctor Tools
eTail Boston 2026

Warby Parker Chose to Build, Not Buy, Its Doctor Tools

2h ClickZ

Warby Parker Chose to Build, Not Buy, Its Doctor T...

For the last two years, retailers have heard one message about AI: move fast. Warby Parker’s fireside chat at eTail Boston made a narrower case....

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What Target Learned Building AI Into Ecommerce
eTail Boston 2026

What Target Learned Building AI Into Ecommerce

2h ClickZ

What Target Learned Building AI Into Ecommerce

The product detail page was supposed to be settled territory. It was the destination, the place where discovery ended and conversion began, and for mo...

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A Following of 10,000 Beats a Following of a Million
eTail Boston 2026

A Following of 10,000 Beats a Following of a Million

3h ClickZ

A Following of 10,000 Beats a Following of a Milli...

TL;DR VistaPrint’s ambassador program deliberately targets creators with 3,000 to 10,000 followers, finding they drive more engagement than bigg...

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Brand Pillars Are Starting to Beat the Trend Cycle
eTail Boston 2026

Brand Pillars Are Starting to Beat the Trend Cycle

4h ClickZ

Brand Pillars Are Starting to Beat the Trend Cycle

TL;DR Evelyn & Bobbie named three brand pillars competitors can’t copy: consumer-generated content over influencers, six industrial patents ...

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Rainbow CDO David Cost on Judging AI by Real Retail Results
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Rainbow CDO David Cost on Judging AI by Real Retail Results

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Rainbow CDO David Cost on Judging AI by Real Retai...

Retail conferences have spent the past year treating AI as a settled revolution, with the customer assumed to be ready for it. David Cost pushes back ...

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Why your Demand Gen budget is too small to matter
ClickZ Explains

Why your Demand Gen budget is too small to matter

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Why your Demand Gen budget is too small to matter

There’s a specific kind of budget line that exists to be technically true rather than actually useful. A brand wants to look like it’s tes...

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The Google ceiling you can't optimize your way out of
ClickZ Explains

The Google ceiling you can't optimize your way out of

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The Google ceiling you can't optimize your way out...

Every paid search lead has sat with this account. Performance Max and Brand Search are running clean. ROAS is respectable. The team has pulled every l...

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How to Tell If Marketing Caused The Sale
ClickZ Explains

How to Tell If Marketing Caused The Sale

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How to Tell If Marketing Caused The Sale

Most marketing reports still measure timing and call it proof. A campaign often gets credit for a sale that was already going to happen, simply becaus...

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Why your CFO's revenue number never matches marketing's
ClickZ Explains

Why your CFO's revenue number never matches marketing's

3w Zihan Lyu

Why your CFO's revenue number never matches market...

You’ve sat in that meeting. The marketing slide says the campaign drove 500,000 dollars. The finance slide, for the same quarter, says something...

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Ryan Hamburger on Instacart's Shift From Marketplace to Enterprise Partner
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Ryan Hamburger on Instacart's Shift From Marketplace to Enterprise Partner

3w Zihan Lyu

Ryan Hamburger on Instacart's Shift From Marketpla...

Grocery retailers spent years worried that a partnership with Instacart meant handing over the customer relationship. That fear has largely faded. Rya...

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Reddit's David Trencher Says the Linear Funnel Is Gone
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Reddit's David Trencher Says the Linear Funnel Is Gone

3w Zihan Lyu

Reddit's David Trencher Says the Linear Funnel Is ...

Reddit spent two decades being described by what it was not: not a feed, not a social graph. The platform is now cited by every major large language m...

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Marvis Protects Cult Status by Refusing Mass Distribution
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Marvis Protects Cult Status by Refusing Mass Distribution

3w Zihan Lyu

Marvis Protects Cult Status by Refusing Mass Distr...

Marvis built a following most oral care brands never manage: cult status in prestige beauty across the US, Asia and now Europe, in a category otherwis...

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JoJo Maman Bébé, Refy and Oka CEOs on the leadership lesson most teams miss
Pulse eCommerce Summit 2026

JoJo Maman Bébé, Refy and Oka CEOs on the leadership lesson most teams miss

3w ClickZ

JoJo Maman Bébé, Refy and Oka CEOs on the leadersh...

Key Takeaways: – Margin, not top-line growth, is the most important metric in a retail business, according to Refy’s CEO. – JoJo Mam...

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Klaviyo's James White on Why Retention Beats Discounting
Leadership Q&A

Klaviyo's James White on Why Retention Beats Discounting

3w Zihan Lyu

Klaviyo's James White on Why Retention Beats Disco...

Most eCommerce brands still put the bulk of their marketing budget into finding new customers. Yet the customers already on their list would often cos...

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Patricia Grundmann on Building OBI's Retail Media Business From Zero
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Patricia Grundmann on Building OBI's Retail Media Business From Zero

4w Zihan Lyu

Patricia Grundmann on Building OBI's Retail Media ...

Eight years ago, retail media inside a DIY retailer had no template. Buying departments had no frame of reference for it. The wrong pitch could make i...

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Simple Modern's Brett Bone on the Limits of Raising Prices
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Simple Modern's Brett Bone on the Limits of Raising Prices

4w Zihan Lyu

Simple Modern's Brett Bone on the Limits of Raisin...

Drinkware is one of the few categories where a shopper sees every rival’s price in a single scroll. That openness sets the terms for everyone se...

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Product Discovery Now Begins with a Feeling, Says Pinterest's Caroline Orange-Northey
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Product Discovery Now Begins with a Feeling, Says Pinterest's Caroline Oran...

4w ClickZ

Product Discovery Now Begins with a Feeling, Says ...

Product discovery has quietly stopped happening on the shelf, or even in the search bar. Shoppers no longer open with a keyword. They open with a visi...

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ETAM and Vuori: Global Growth Runs Through Local Trust
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ETAM and Vuori: Global Growth Runs Through Local Trust

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ETAM and Vuori: Global Growth Runs Through Local T...

Three out of four brands fail when they try to take a proven concept into a new market. That is not a niche statistic. It is the backdrop against whic...

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Manuel Neto on Why Retail AI Fails Without Purposeful Data
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Manuel Neto on Why Retail AI Fails Without Purposeful Data

1m Zihan Lyu

Manuel Neto on Why Retail AI Fails Without Purpose...

Retail is pouring money into AI while sitting on data it has never truly used. That gap sets up most of the failures to come. Manuel Neto has spent ye...

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Coterie and Laura Geller at CommerceNext26: Problem First, AI Second
CommerceNext Growth Show 2026

Coterie and Laura Geller at CommerceNext26: Problem First, AI Second

1m Lee Arthur

Coterie and Laura Geller at CommerceNext26: Proble...

Coterie’s Marissa Steinmetz and AS Beauty Group’s Maureen Massry, in conversation with Shopify’s Madeline Michaelson, said both comp...

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QVC's Bet: The Future of eCommerce Is a Person, Live, on Camera
CommerceNext Growth Show 2026

QVC's Bet: The Future of eCommerce Is a Person, Live, on Camera

1m Lee Arthur

QVC's Bet: The Future of eCommerce Is a Person, Li...

While most of CommerceNext debated how AI will reshape discovery, QVC Group’s Brian Beitler argued for something older. The company has built it...

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Brands Are Betting Earned Media Will Shape AI Answers
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Brands Are Betting Earned Media Will Shape AI Answers

1m Zihan Lyu

Brands Are Betting Earned Media Will Shape AI Answ...

Shoppers are handing more of the buying journey to AI, and brands from Balenciaga to e.l.f. Beauty are rebuilding around earned, third-party validatio...

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Omnichannel's next era is about restraint, incentives, and the LLM
CommerceNext Growth Show 2026

Omnichannel's next era is about restraint, incentives, and the LLM

1m ClickZ

Omnichannel's next era is about restraint, incenti...

The operators on this Commerce Next panel run very different businesses, from a 560-store western wear chain to an AI-driven styling service. All five...

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RTB House and GNC: Why AI Reads Your Website Before Your Customers Do
CommerceNext Growth Show 2026

RTB House and GNC: Why AI Reads Your Website Before Your Customers Do

1m Lee Arthur

RTB House and GNC: Why AI Reads Your Website Befor...

RTB House’s Jaysen Gillespie opened the talk with new research on how shoppers behave before they buy. Most don’t convert on the first vis...

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Lo & Sons President on How Far AI Closes the Gap With Enterprise Brands
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Lo & Sons President on How Far AI Closes the Gap With Enterprise Brands

1m Zihan Lyu

Lo & Sons President on How Far AI Closes the G...

AI is often sold to small brands as the great equalizer. The pitch says a 12-person team can finally operate like a 1,200-person one. Katie Omstead, P...

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Assaf Ronen on Why HelloFresh Sees Itself as a Day-One Startup
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Assaf Ronen on Why HelloFresh Sees Itself as a Day-One Startup

1m Zihan Lyu

Assaf Ronen on Why HelloFresh Sees Itself as a Day...

HelloFresh serves roughly a billion meals a year. That sounds like the ceiling of a category it helped invent. Assaf Ronen does not read it that way. ...

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The contact center is the most underused growth asset in retail
CommerceNext Growth Show 2026

The contact center is the most underused growth asset in retail

1m Lee Arthur

The contact center is the most underused growth as...

The panel at CommerceNext Growth Show returned to an old idea, that listening to customers still comes first. What changed, the operators agreed, is t...

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