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Is your payment experience holding back your omnichannel strategy?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (585+ words) can get one clear view of payments across the business. A single payments platform can capture consistent...transaction data across stores, franchisees and corporate models, giving retailers visibility across channels, geographies...
Ace Hardware: ‘We’re in the business of building national brands’
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (875+ words) customers. “I don’t think about myself as in the business of selling a particular product,” Molly Hjelm,...in an interview with Retail Dive. “We’re in the business of building national brands.” RedVest Media offers...
Walmart’s stores have ‘evolved’ as e-commerce grows
3+ week, 2+ day ago (300+ words) industry analysts, though the strength of the overall business still shone through. “Importantly, we think Walmart...together to assess the underlying performance of the business.” As the industry enters another year marked by...
Target scores major sales growth in beauty, hardlines merchandise
3+ week, 4+ day ago (288+ words) Fiddelke added. The retailer invested heavily in the business during Q2, with capital expenditures jumping 27%...
Preparing your platform for agentic commerce: How to authenticate AI buying agents vs. synthetic bots
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (577+ words) Automated traffic on a marketplace meant scrapers, card testers, credential stuffers. The playbook was simple: detect automation, block automation. That playbook broke this year. AI bots made up 47.9% of commerce traffic on Akamai's global network in the second half of…...
E-commerce to outpace overall holiday sales growth as shoppers lean on AI
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (242+ words) The channel is expected to grow up to 8.4%, aided in part by consumers’ embrace of digital tools such as artificial intelligence, per Deloitte. As artificial intelligence becomes a more embedded part of the shopping journey, e-commerce sales stand to benefit…...
The Home Depot extends AI assistance in local stores
1+ week, 4+ day ago (249+ words) The retailer expanded its AI shopping assistant, Magic Apron, to include localized store knowledge to help customers quickly find items, ask product-specific questions and get project advice. Magic Apron is ready to help further assist customers in their local Home…...
Sephora to pilot TikTok Shop experience
1+ week, 3+ day ago (292+ words) The beauty retailer will debut exclusive monthly drops through the social media’s e-commerce feature with content-led videos and a TikTok Live. Sephora will debut on TikTok Shop in the U.S. through a pilot starting on Sept. 19. The launch will feature…...
Fragrance drives beauty sales as consumers seek ‘emotional and functional value’
2+ week, 5+ day ago (351+ words) Prestige and mass beauty retail sales were up in the U.S. in the first half of the year, underscoring the resilience of the category, according to Circana. Even as consumers prioritize their spending, robust growth in the beauty sector suggests that…...
How AI is powering Target’s back-to-school push
1+ week, 3+ day ago (482+ words) The mass retailer is utilizing AI for wish lists and recommended actions on its e-commerce site, Target’s senior vice president of technology told Retail Dive. The mass retailer found that customers who build wish lists drive about 45% higher demand in…...