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A Retailer's guide to mastering customer data

Fragmented data wastes spend and frustrates customers, while unified data drives smarter marketing and loyalty. Join Retail Brew and Wunderkind to explore how identity resolution boosts efficiency, cuts costs, and strengthens retention.

Spend Smarter: Making Every Marketing Dollar More Efficient

The Future of Retail Marketing: Content, Data and the Power of Community

As consumer spending tightens and expectations for seamless shopping rise, retailers must adapt quickly to shifting behaviors and data signals. Join Placer.ai to uncover where and why shoppers are buying—and how these trends will shape a critical 2025 holiday season and beyond.

The New Retail Playbook: Consumer Trends and Retail Forecasting

Morning Brew Creative Studio

Vicky Wolak Freeman

Vidhi Choudhary

Alex Vuocolo

Erin Cabrey

Jeena Sharma

Quarter century project: Retail over the last 25 years

 National Retail Federation

A behind-the-scenes look at how NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show defines The Next Now and what industry events can deliver

Turning vision into strategy: From conference theme to framework for retail success

Shoppers stocked up on food steamers, roasting pans, and marshmallows.

Shopify’s November trends lead to the kitchen

AI is the biggest fundamental shift that will change the way DTC brands serve ads and how shoppers shop from DTC.

What’s next for DTC?

Department stores, pharmacies, and crafts and party suppliers all took a hit in 2025. Here’s who is left standing. 

Why specialized brick-and-mortar retailers struggled in 2025

Many consumers are worried there will be a pullback in discounts this year, and yet promotions have never been more important for getting shoppers in the door. 

Shoppers fear a discount gap this holiday season. Here’s how retailers are responding

On Dec. 1, Shopify experienced technical difficulties that temporarily blocked merchants from accessing their admin dashboards.

Shopify’s Black Friday-Cyber Monday sales surged 27% despite brief site outage

Murray’s Cheese unveiled its first-ever holiday window as it works to emphasize community this holiday season. 

Inside an NYC cheese shop’s sharp twist on a holiday retail tradition

The retailer is betting on high-traffic spaces, IRL connection, and experiential retail to captivate young shoppers.

Why Urban Outfitters is building sandcastles and igloos at Chicago's O’Hare Airport

Decades of dealmaking have changed the stakes for consolidation in the industry.

How players like LVMH and Kering shaped fashion M&A over 25 years

Major rivals saw their fortunes diverge in Q3, while off-price apparel brands benefitted as a group.

Target and Walmart have very different quarters, Lowe’s pulls ahead of Home Depot, and off-price triumphs

A recap of key pivots retailers like Build-A-Bear and brands like Oura and Burlap & Barrel have made to survive these days.

How retailers are pivoting their way through chaos

In just over a decade, Apple Pay has increased its penetration from 3% of US retailers to 85%. Here’s how the tech giant pulled it off. 

How Apple Pay became ubiquitous at retailers

Jonelle Dawkins at Scraplanta. Isadora Pennington

Holiday crafters may be choosing more eco-conscious, budget-friendly sources for their festive supplies.

How secondhand craft stores are mending the hole left by Joann Fabrics

From Zara to Shein and Temu, we look back at the key moments in fast fashion over the past 25 years.

Why specialized brick-and-mortar retailers struggled in 2025

The Latest Retail Industry News

Shopify’s November trends lead to the kitchen

Shopify’s Black Friday-Cyber Monday sales surged 27% despite brief site outage

Why specialized brick-and-mortar retailers struggled in 2025

Turning vision into strategy: From conference theme to framework for retail success

Inside an NYC cheese shop’s sharp twist on a holiday retail tradition

Quarter century project: Retail over the last 25 years

What’s next for DTC?

How Apple Pay became ubiquitous at retailers

How fast fashion transformed the way consumers shop in the 21st century

How players like LVMH and Kering shaped fashion M&A over 25 years

Events

The Future of Retail Marketing: Content, Data and the Power of Community

The New Retail Playbook: Consumer Trends and Retail Forecasting

Spend Smarter: Making Every Marketing Dollar More Efficient

Resources

Shoppers fear a discount gap this holiday season. Here’s how retailers are responding

How retailers are pivoting their way through chaos

A Retailer's guide to mastering customer data

How retailers are pivoting their way through chaos

Topics

Retail news that keeps industry pros in the know

Why specialized brick-and-mortar retailers struggled in 2025

The Latest Retail Industry News

Shopify’s November trends lead to the kitchen

Shopify’s Black Friday-Cyber Monday sales surged 27% despite brief site outage

Why specialized brick-and-mortar retailers struggled in 2025

Turning vision into strategy: From conference theme to framework for retail success

Inside an NYC cheese shop’s sharp twist on a holiday retail tradition

Quarter century project: Retail over the last 25 years

What’s next for DTC?

How Apple Pay became ubiquitous at retailers

How fast fashion transformed the way consumers shop in the 21st century

How players like LVMH and Kering shaped fashion M&A over 25 years

Events

The Future of Retail Marketing: Content, Data and the Power of Community

The New Retail Playbook: Consumer Trends and Retail Forecasting

Spend Smarter: Making Every Marketing Dollar More Efficient

Retail news that keeps industry pros in the know

Resources

Shoppers fear a discount gap this holiday season. Here’s how retailers are responding

How retailers are pivoting their way through chaos

A Retailer's guide to mastering customer data

How retailers are pivoting their way through chaos

Topics