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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

TikTok is investing in shopping like never before.

Marketplace Models

TikTok Shop adds big names like Best Buy in push to become a mainstream marketplace

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

Alex Vuocolo

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

Physical Retail Strategy

The state of stores

Closed quarter

Retailers are tapping fashion school students not only as future employees, but as sources of new thinking around products, marketing, accessibility, technology, and the future of retail.

Training & Upskilling

Why fashion's biggest retailers want a seat in the classroom

Boll & Branch is using AI to scale its bed installation program.

AI in E-Commerce

How Boll & Branch stores helped build the brand’s first AI tool 

A new Quantum Metric study highlights a growing “listening gap” between collecting consumer feedback and responding to it.

Customer Experience (E-Commerce)

Retailers are asking for feedback but are shoppers feeling heard?

Retail Brew’s rundown of Halloween’s biggest shopping trends.

Trade-Down Behavior

Halloween shoppers are shopping early, seeking low-cost and analog options

The Ibotta Performance Network

Ibotta Sept 2026 Custom Whitepaper

Why promotions deserve a seat at your strategy table

Promotional Strategy

Promotions for performance

Hibbett, a 1,000+ location sporting goods retailer, has kept a 99%+ mobile audience retention rate through standout mobile campaigns. Join Vibes' Mara Miller and Hibbett's Kayla Brown for an inside look at what's worked this year and their mobile-first plans for the holidays.

Mobile Commerce

The Gift of Innovative Mobile Marketing Meets Holiday 2026

TikTok Shop adds big names like Best Buy in push to become a mainstream marketplace

The Latest Retail Industry News

Why fashion's biggest retailers want a seat in the classroom

How Boll & Branch stores helped build the brand’s first AI tool

Retailers are asking for feedback but are shoppers feeling heard?

Halloween shoppers are shopping early, seeking low-cost and analog options

Editor's Picks

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

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

Events

The Gift of Innovative Mobile Marketing Meets Holiday 2026

In-Store Only: Keeping up with Your Physical Storefront

How Smart Building Technology Transforms Stores

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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