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Everyday store issues like cooler leaks, HVAC outages, or theft can go unnoticed for hours. AT&T Business joins Retail Brew to break down how Connected Spaces delivers near real-time insights, turning reactive fixes into proactive alerts before small problems become big ones.

Stores

Store Digitization

In-Store Only: Keeping up with Your Physical Storefront  

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!

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.

Retail Brew

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

Andrew Adam Newman

Marketing

Retail shelves validate The Cycle better than Instagram, Anastasia Sartan says.

Brand-Retailer Partnerships

How this founder landed her menstrual-care beverages on Sprouts’s shelves

Erin Cabrey

Interparfums CEO Jean Madar reflects on the changing fragrance landscape after over four decades in the business. 

Omnichannel Retail

This fragrance CEO says perfume’s popularity is the new ‘lipstick effect’

Jeena Sharma

CEO Crystal Landsem told Retail Brew that department stores are becoming both a sales channel and a profitable way to introduce new customers to the brand.

Why Lulus is betting big on Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, and wholesale in general

“I need to build trail runners,” says Ben Cooke, the retailer’s president.

Concept Stores

How Marathon Sports brought the trail indoors for its new concept store

Soliciting reviews, responding to bad ones, and why they’re more trusted than family.

Path to Purchase

How customer reviews went from novelty to necessity

Trail-running shoes jumped 71% at Brooks, and it’s REI’s fastest-growing shoe category.

Active Lifestyle Spending

Trail running hits its stride

Beauty wholesaler Beautyspace is striking out on its own with the opening of Little Luxuries in New York City’s Union Square.

Store News

A new retailer selling only mini beauty products is coming to NYC

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

Alex Vuocolo

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

The state of stores

Grace period

Plus, here come the holiday forecasts.

Same-Day Delivery

Retail sales, Amazon wage hike, and holiday promotions

Dollar General and Five Below among retailers restricting or eliminating the lanes.

Smart Checkout

Retailers using self-checkout fell 16%, Toast reports

After expanding Ariat beyond work boots and into apparel, the sports retailer is giving the brand dedicated spaces as demand for Western and lifestyle products grows.

Academy Sports is betting 200 Ariat shop-in-shops can turn Western wear into a bigger business

How this founder landed her menstrual-care beverages on Sprouts’s shelves

The Latest Retail Industry News

Retail sales, Amazon wage hike, and holiday promotions

Retailers using self-checkout fell 16%, Toast reports

This fragrance CEO says perfume’s popularity is the new ‘lipstick effect’

Academy Sports is betting 200 Ariat shop-in-shops can turn Western wear into a bigger business

Editor's Picks

This fragrance CEO says perfume’s popularity is the new ‘lipstick effect’

Why Lulus is betting big on Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, and wholesale in general

How Marathon Sports brought the trail indoors for its new concept store

How customer reviews went from novelty to necessity

Events

In-Store Only: Keeping up with Your Physical Storefront

How Smart Building Technology Transforms Stores

Lower Your Ad Spend and Reach New Customers? Sold!

Resources

Promotions for performance

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

The state of stores

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

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