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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

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.

Omnichannel Retail

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

Andrew Adam Newman

“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

Erin Cabrey

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

With seven more stores slated for 2026 and roughly 15 planned for 2027, the Western wear brand is balancing physical growth with e-commerce and wholesale.

How Tecovas is spreading ‘radical hospitality’ across the US

With production financing through Bridge, Dog Sauce got funding after its bank said no. 

Manufacturing

This startup got a dream order from Walmart. Fulfilling it almost turned into a nightmare.

Alex Vuocolo

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

The state of stores

Marketing

Shelf esteem

The uptick comes as consumer prices rose 0.4% in August.  

Price Sensitivity

Retail sales rebound in August after July drop

She’s US sales director at VoCoVo. 

Coworking with Ashley Raysin

The warehouse store is simplifying its inventory. The process could make or break its business model. 

Merchandising

 BJ’s cuts 20% of SKUs to reduce ‘unnecessary choice’

Lower-income BNPL users financed groceries at triple the six-figure rate.

Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumer Needs

More than 4 in 10 who used BNPL for groceries incurred late-payment or overdraft fees

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

The Latest Retail Industry News

Retail sales rebound in August after July drop

Coworking with Ashley Raysin

BJ’s cuts 20% of SKUs to reduce ‘unnecessary choice’

More than 4 in 10 who used BNPL for groceries incurred late-payment or overdraft fees

Editor's Picks

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

How customer reviews went from novelty to necessity

Trail running hits its stride

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

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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