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The Structural Reset: Navigating the Post-De Minimis Era in DTC Ecommerce

For years, the de minimis exemption served as the silent engine behind the global direct-to-consumer (DTC) explosion. By…

Executive Viewpoints May 29
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How Retailers and Brands are Winning on Reddit

As shoppers increasingly favor candid community advice over polished ads, retailers are using authentic engagement and new commerce…

Features May 28
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Why Retail’s AI Fraud Problem Starts at the Identity Layer

Retail has always attracted fraud, but what’s happening now is different in both scale and sophistication. 69% of…

Executive Viewpoints May 27
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From Alexa to ChatGPT: The AI Shopping Race is Rewriting Retail Media

In the last few weeks, Amazon embedded an AI shopping assistant into its search bar, OpenAI launched product…

Executive Viewpoints May 26
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AI Commerce Depends on Open, Foundational Location Data

The shift toward autonomous AI shopping agents is accelerating, moving agentic commerce from an experimental concept to an…

Executive Viewpoints May 25
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Is Your Data Ready for the Era of AI-Powered Search?

Data requirements for being found by an agentic commerce search go far beyond having the right basic product…

Features May 19
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Is Brand Visibility Misleading Retail Marketers?

There was a time when marketing carried a reassuring sense of logic. Your growth could be traced back…

Executive Viewpoints May 19
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Michaels Grows Shop-in-Shop Party Assortments by 60%, Adds New Piñata Category

Michaels is doubling down on becoming a party planner’s all-in-one resource by expanding assortments at The Party Shop…

News May 14
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Convenience vs. Discovery: How AI-Powered Shopping will Impact Brick-and-Mortar Retail

People thinking about the impact of agentic AI in retail focus, quite naturally, on how the digital shopper…

Features May 14
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