As 2026 takes shape, the most successful leaders will adopt new tools with responsibility and vision while keeping the human side of shopping alive. These 10 tech trends in retail tech and AI are ...

The year 2025 promises a retail landscape unlike anything we've seen before. As the pace of innovation accelerates, retailers are breaking boundaries to engage customers, empower employees and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Erdly is a UK-based small business retail expert. Retail trends mirror human behavior in all its complexity. They are ...

The National Retail Foundation (NRF) estimates American consumers will finally surpass $1 trillion in holiday shopping this season, which represents a roughly 4% increase since 2024 and the most ...

For households navigating the persistent gap between stagnant wages and rising costs, the definition of "essential spending" is undergoing a radical shift. Consumer spending remains a vital barometer ...

A new year always brings new trends with it — headwinds and tailwinds that will end up defining retail for that period of time. While it’s impossible to predict all of them (a pandemic that upended ...

The three days of hype, hope and unease about a teetering economy and potential technology disruptors that were the NRF 2023 Big Show at the Javits Center in New York City, culminated in a discussion ...

Runway shows are often seen as aspirational spectacles, but their influence extends far beyond dramatic lighting and front-row cameras. The way looks are styled on the runway directly affects what ...

Hello, everyone. Welcome to today's webinar called the U.K. Retail Update. My name is Charlotte, and I work in the Customer Success team at GlobalData. For those of you who aren't familiar with ...