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View moreFurniture.com's VP of Search and Discovery on the Taste AI Can't Replace
Furniture.com's VP of Search and Discovery on the ...
Furniture is not a keyword. It is fabric under a hand, a rug that has to match a room nobody else has seen, a sofa a guest will judge before they say ...
View articleWhy eVacuumStore Is Winning AI Search With Human Service
Why eVacuumStore Is Winning AI Search With Human S...
Most retailers fighting for visibility in AI search are throwing bigger content teams at the problem. David Clough has spent 18 years doing the opposi...
View articleThe Ordinary Found 62% of Its Revenue Hiding in Plain Sight
The Ordinary Found 62% of Its Revenue Hiding in Pl...
Most of a brand’s revenue now happens somewhere the marketing team can’t see. A pixel tracks a website. It has no view of a shelf on Amazo...
View articleBrand and Performance Were Never Rivals
Brand and Performance Were Never Rivals
The brand-versus-performance debate has outlived its usefulness. Marketers keep sorting themselves into camps, brand or performance, as if the split r...
View articleAI Is Not Making Shoppers Faster. It's Making Them Choosier
AI Is Not Making Shoppers Faster. It's Making Them...
Retailers spent a decade optimizing for speed: fewer clicks, faster checkout, shorter funnels. That assumption is broken. New global research presente...
View articleWarby Parker Chose to Build, Not Buy, Its Doctor Tools
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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Shoptalk Europe 2026
View moreRyan Hamburger on Instacart's Shift From Marketplace to Enterprise Partner
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...
View articleReddit's David Trencher Says the Linear Funnel Is Gone
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...
View articleMarvis Protects Cult Status by Refusing Mass Distribution
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...
View articlePatricia Grundmann on Building OBI's Retail Media Business From Zero
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...
View articleProduct Discovery Now Begins with a Feeling, Says Pinterest's Caroline Oran...
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...
View articleETAM and Vuori: Global Growth Runs Through Local Trust
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...
View articleDesirability Is a Decision. Christian Louboutin Has a Framework for It.
Desirability Is a Decision. Christian Louboutin Ha...
Plenty of luxury brands talk about protecting their identity. Few can describe the mechanism that does it. At Shoptalk Europe 2026 in Barcelona, Alexi...
View articleHow Lego Retail Launched Smart Brick Through Omnichannel Experience
How Lego Retail Launched Smart Brick Through Omnic...
Launching genuinely new technology into a category defined by simplicity is one of the harder marketing problems in retail. The product cannot be expl...
View articleCommerceNext Growth Show 2026
View moreCoterie and Laura Geller at CommerceNext26: Problem First, AI Second
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...
View articleQVC's Bet: The Future of eCommerce Is a Person, Live, on Camera
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...
View articleOmnichannel's next era is about restraint, incentives, and the LLM
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...
View articleRTB House and GNC: Why AI Reads Your Website Before Your Customers Do
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...
View articleThe contact center is the most underused growth asset in retail
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...
View articleJason LaRose Explains Why Bombas Can Set the Terms on Wholesale Expansion
Jason LaRose Explains Why Bombas Can Set the Terms...
Bombas CEO Jason LaRose used his CommerceNext opening keynote to draw a line between two kinds of DTC expansion. Some brands go to wholesale because t...
View articleThe Lead Summit 2026
View MoreRainbow CDO David Cost on Judging AI by Real Retail Results
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 ...
View articleSimple Modern's Brett Bone on the Limits of Raising Prices
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...
View articleManuel Neto on Why Retail AI Fails Without Purposeful Data
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...
View articleLo & Sons President on How Far AI Closes the Gap With Enterprise Brands
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...
View articleAssaf Ronen on Why HelloFresh Sees Itself as a Day-One Startup
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. ...
View articleMusely's Jack Jia on Making Medicine the Industry Forgot
Musely's Jack Jia on Making Medicine the Industry ...
The $300 billion skincare industry has a problem it rarely says out loud. Over-the-counter skincare cannot legally change your skin. The moment a topi...
View articleSaatva's CMO on How the LA28 Games Bet Paid Off
Saatva's CMO on How the LA28 Games Bet Paid Off
While most mattress brands still compete on coil counts and pillow tops, Saatva has spent the last few years competing in the Olympics. For a luxury b...
View articleKnitwell Group's COO on Why AI in Stores Starts With a Hello
Knitwell Group's COO on Why AI in Stores Starts Wi...
According to AlixPartners’ Consumer Sentiment Index, a survey of 9,000 US consumers, service as a shopping priority increased 34% year over year...
View articleShoptalk Spring 2026
View MoreWhen a 39-Year-Old Brand Finally Looks Upstream - Exclusive Q&A with Je...
When a 39-Year-Old Brand Finally Looks Upstream - ...
There is a specific kind of brand problem that established companies rarely talk about openly: the moment when your loyal customers are aging out, and...
View articleReddit's Anna Haffner on Why Retail Brands Need to Show Up Where Trust Live...
Reddit's Anna Haffner on Why Retail Brands Need to...
The word “Reddit” gets appended to a Google search 250 times every second. People search Google, then add “Reddit” because the...
View articleHome Depot's Retail Media Bet: Measurement Over ROAS
Home Depot's Retail Media Bet: Measurement Over RO...
Retail media networks keep growing their ad surfaces. More screens. More offsite formats. More CTV. But the harder question is whether any of it is ac...
View articleAppsFlyer's Elissa Brown on Why Measurement Silos Cost More Than Bad Data
AppsFlyer's Elissa Brown on Why Measurement Silos ...
Every eCommerce team has a measurement stack. Very few have a measurement strategy. The distinction matters more in 2026 than ever, as the number of c...
View articleFrom Dresses to Data: David's Bridal Reinvents Itself as a Platform
From Dresses to Data: David's Bridal Reinvents Its...
A bride makes over 300 decisions in 18 months. She picks the photographer, the venue, the colors, and the bridesmaids’ dresses. She decides whet...
View articleMacy's Bet on AI to Make Retail More Human
Macy's Bet on AI to Make Retail More Human
Macy’s challenged the premise that technology and human connection are in tension. The real question isn’t whether to automate, but how to...
View articleCreators Are Now the Funnel
At Shoptalk, Travis Katz and Jessica Alba did not describe a new marketing channel. They described the end of the distinction between content and comm...
View articleNew Balance Grew 180% by Doing Less, Not More
New Balance Grew 180% by Doing Less, Not More
Joe Preston’s Shoptalk keynote was not about a growth hack or a new channel but what happens when a brand stops chasing and starts choosing. The...
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View MoreFurniture.com's Alex Seaman on Building a Decision Layer, Not a Marketplace
Furniture.com's Alex Seaman on Building a Decision...
Buying furniture is one of the most emotionally loaded, logistically complicated purchases a person makes. It’s highly considered and the stakes...
View articleHow Bombas Keeps Its Mission Intact as It Moves into Mainstream Retail
How Bombas Keeps Its Mission Intact as It Moves in...
Most brands that talk about purpose treat it as a channel. A campaign lever. Something to activate when the quarterly numbers need a story. The result...
View articleThe TikTok Perfume Effect: What Moroccanoil's Measurement Gap Tells Every S...
The TikTok Perfume Effect: What Moroccanoil's Meas...
The most persuasive TikTok data point Moroccanoil collected in 2025 was not in any dashboard. Staff overheard it at a tennis tournament. In February o...
View articleWhy ROAS Is No Longer Enough for Retail Media in 2026
Why ROAS Is No Longer Enough for Retail Media in 2...
E-commerce teams are measuring their retail media performance with a number that can be engineered to look good. ROAS is clean, reportable, and easy t...
View articleWhy Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists as AI Gets Better
Why Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists ...
The shopping journey has always involved a kind of surrender. You surrender to a brand’s editorial curation when you browse a site. You surrende...
View articleAt Target, the Only Wrong Move Is Opting Out
At Target, the Only Wrong Move Is Opting Out
Most organizations right now are running some version of the same experiment: distribute access to AI tools, watch what happens, and try to figure out...
View articleWhy Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built an Influencer Measurement...
Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built ...
Every influencer marketer has the same nightmare conversation. The CFO asks for the revenue number. The marketer opens a dashboard full of impressions...
View articleWhy Unique Vintage Replaced ROAS With Contribution Margin Per View
Why Unique Vintage Replaced ROAS With Contribution...
Most apparel brands know their gross margins. Fewer know whether the traffic they are paying for actually generates profit after returns, fulfillment,...
View articleNRF 2026
View MoreA Recap of NRF2026: Click's Main Takeaways
At NRF 2026, the signal was clear: AI is rewriting discovery, but the brands that win will be the ones that keep the customer promise, online, in-stor...
View articleHow Ralph Lauren is using AI to scale luxury service without losing heritag...
How Ralph Lauren is using AI to scale luxury servi...
At NRF 2026, Ralph Lauren and Microsoft shared how "Ask Ralph" brings brand heritage into conversational commerce, and what it teaches marketers about...
View articleHow Fran Horowitz quietly rebuilt Abercrombie
How Fran Horowitz quietly rebuilt Abercrombie
NRF 2026 Visionary award winner Fran Horowitz shares how humility, customer listening, and team autonomy powered Abercrombie’s turnaround and what com...
View articleREI’s CEO Is Betting on Trust in an Age of Agentic Commerce
REI’s CEO Is Betting on Trust in an Age of Agentic...
As AI reshapes commerce, REI’s CEO - Mary Beth Laughton, argues that trust and human expertise, not technology, will define the next era of retail. Re...
View articleThe Great Scale-Up: Retailers Going All In on In-Store
The Great Scale-Up: Retailers Going All In on In-S...
In-store retail media is no longer a “does it work?” question. It’s a “can you operate it?” question. At NRF, leaders from CVS, Loblaw, and STRATACACH...
View articleWhat Fanatics and Dick’s Sporting Goods reveal about the next era of retail...
What Fanatics and Dick’s Sporting Goods reveal abo...
Fanatics and Dick’s Sporting Goods are taking opposite paths, one digital, one physical, but their retail marketing strategy is built on the same idea...
View articleBuilding the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is scaling smarter
Building the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is...
Agentic commerce and GEO are coming fast, but JD Sports argues the real advantage is operational: clean data and order management that keeps the custo...
View articleThe AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead for Retail
The AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead fo...
At NRF'26, Google introduced UCP for agentic commerce while Walmart unveiled agent-led shopping in Gemini. Discover what Sundar Pichai (Google, CEO) a...
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