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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.

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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

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

Jeena Sharma

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.

The Tinuiti study also found those users more apt to resell or rent clothing. 

Purchase Frequency

GLP-1 users much more likely to increase clothing spending

Ron Johnson says AI won’t shift people from physical stores to online, or vice versa.

Apple’s former head of retail on brick and mortar today

Alex Vuocolo

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

The state of stores

Marketing

Running wild

She’s founder and CEO of Corner Market Communications. 

Brand Storytelling

Coworking with Meghan Kelleher

Adtaxi’s survey found 93% of consumers have adopted at least one cost-saving behavior. 

Deal-Seeking Behavior

Most Americans are trying to save money, and it’s changing the way consumers shop

New data from Colliers and Placer.ai reveals the strongest retail performers during the event this summer. 

These retail stores were the winners from the World Cup

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. 

Customer Journey

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

How customer reviews went from novelty to necessity

The Latest Retail Industry News

Coworking with Meghan Kelleher

Most Americans are trying to save money, and it’s changing the way consumers shop

Trail running hits its stride

These retail stores were the winners from the World Cup

Editor's Picks

Trail running hits its stride

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

Everyone wants to be a prestige beauty retailer now

How Tecovas is spreading ‘radical hospitality’ across the US

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

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

The state of stores

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

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

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