Apr 13, 2026 | Retail
Online shopping has made buying and returning clothing seamless for consumers. But for retailers, returns have become an expensive problem: The process requires retailers to pay to retrieve any garment that does not fit before inspecting it and deciding what to do...
Apr 13, 2026 | Retail
Ecommerce continued to account for larger portions of U.S. retail sales in 2025, according to Digital Commerce 360 analysis of data from the Department of Commerce. Both the dollar amount and percentage of sales that ecommerce accounted for in 2025 set new records — a...
Apr 13, 2026 | Retail
Photo by Unsplash from Freerange Stock WASHINGTON — The National Retail Federation forecasts retail sales in 2026 will grow by 4.4% over 2025 to $5.6 trillion, based on a newly enhanced forecasting approach developed in partnership with Oxford Economics, one of the...
Apr 13, 2026 | Retail
Social Media Week: SMW returns to NYC April 14 to 16, bringing together the people behind the feed to define what works now in social and content. Secure your spot today. In this episode of Adspeak by ADWEEK, senior media reporter Mark Stenberg speaks with David...
Apr 13, 2026 | Retail
An article from Dive Brief AI will enable loyalty personalization on a massive scale by helping brands dig through behavioral data and other relevant information for targeted offers, Gartner predicts. …Click here for the full...
Apr 6, 2026 | Retail
NEW YORK — Shoppers increased their spending in February, particularly on cars and clothing, after pulling back at the start of the year due to severe winter storms.Retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.6% in February, from a revised 0.1% decline in...
Apr 6, 2026 | Retail
Consumers had already begun to discover the joy and benefits of shopping secondhand, and now economic pressures have accelerated that adoption. In 2025, 59% of consumers shopped secondhand apparel, a seven-point increase in just three years, according to ThredUp’s...
Apr 6, 2026 | Retail
The federal government’s decision to end penny production last year has caused confusion and compliance risks for retailers. How should you handle cash transactions? Can you round down without violating consumer protection laws? Can you round up without taking a major...
Apr 6, 2026 | Retail
As Poshmark looks to woo more brands, retailers, and larger enterprise sellers to the platform, are casual consumer sellers being left behind?When the second-hand fashion site launched in 2011, it started as a social marketplace aiming to turn closets into storefronts...
Apr 6, 2026 | Retail
The best way to understand a city might just be through its shopping. Beyond the landmarks and attractions, each destination reveals a mix of influences—luxury and local, familiar and unexpected. In some places, like Miami, that means designer flagships and polished...
Apr 6, 2026 | Retail
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Mar 30, 2026 | Retail
As traditional shopping malls continue to struggle, discount retailers are experiencing something of a renaissance. As consumers hunt for bargains, Ross has opened new stores in Southern California in recent weeks and says it plans to open more than 100 additional...
Mar 30, 2026 | Retail
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Shrink — a mismatch between inventory a retailer has on hand and what records say it should have — continues to confound the industry. But several companies in recent weeks reported that shrink is...
Mar 30, 2026 | Retail
An article from Dive Brief Nearly all consumers are at least neutral toward back-in-stock alerts, one study found. But for some, personalization based on information they never shared feels uncomfortable. …Click here for the full...
Mar 30, 2026 | Retail
Mar 30, 2026 | Retail
Amid information overload and declining trust, more purchase journeys are happening on Reddit than ever before. To help retailers and ecommerce businesses reach these shoppers more easily and effectively, we’re launching several new shopping tools to enhance the...
Mar 23, 2026 | Retail
1/3 free articles used this month. Last year, service-oriented tenants, led by gyms, fitness studios and spas, accounted for over 50% of total retail square footage in the U.S. for the first time ever, indicating a significant shift in consumer spending toward...
Mar 23, 2026 | Retail
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Month after month — despite inflation, tariffs and rising debt — the fragile U.S. consumer has come through for retailers, even in the discretionary categories covered by Retail Dive. Case in...
Mar 23, 2026 | Retail
Updated on: March 20, 2026 / 12:46 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google For U.S. consumers, soaring oil prices due to the Iran war don't just mean pain at the pump — the impact is also likely to be felt by shoppers both in stores and online.Global oil prices...
Mar 23, 2026 | Retail
Nearly nine-in-ten would trade personal data for better recommendations, but 70% draw the line at AI being used to tailor pricing , /PRNewswire/ — A new Omnisend survey of 1,072 U.S. shoppers shows that consumers are increasingly trusting AI to take a larger...
