Target is seeing results from the artificial intelligence-powered shopping features it added to its app over the past year, the retailer said in a Tuesday (Sept. 8) press release. “Guests move naturally between our stores and digital channels, and we’re using AI and personalization in...
Today’s most consequential retail technology investments have little to do with making things better, and more to do with redesigning them entirely. Walmart is rolling out tap-to-pay across its U.S. stores, opening checkout to Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, contactless cards and wearables after...
The summer’s biggest retail sales events did more than create a larger shopping crowd. Their overlap also changed who showed up, how much they spent and how consumers moved between retailers. A PYMNTS Intelligence report, “The Overlap Effect: How Amazon and Walmart Expanded the Crowd...
Labor Day traditionally tells Northeasterners to locate a sweater, inspect the foliage and pretend the beach chairs will be stored before Thanksgiving. This year, retailers have added another instruction. Begin thinking about Halloween immediately. The pumpkins have arrived, the skeletons have achieved architectural scale and...
Retailers are discovering that in a world of tariffs, supply chain uncertainty and cautious consumers, more choice can come with a surprisingly high price. Companies are shrinking their product assortments to reduce the cost and complexity of importing, transporting and storing merchandise, The Wall Street...
The next retail battleground may be the few seconds between receiving a suspicious notification and clicking it. Amazon on Wednesday (Sept. 2) introduced a feature in Alexa for Shopping that lets U.S. customers ask whether a message, email, phone call or text actually came from...
Amazon announced Wednesday (Sept. 2) that it is giving consumers a new way to fight back against one of scammers’ most effective weapons, impersonation. The company is adding a feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether an email, text, phone call or other...
IKEA is reducing prices on 1,500-plus products in Europe amid ongoing cost-of-living pressures. The Swedish furniture retailer announced Tuesday (Sept. 1) that it was investing nearly $1.4 billion to mark down prices by 15% to 25%. “The investment is not an activity or short-term campaign—it’s...
Watch more: Need to Know With Rundoo’s Nick Hershey Independent supply stores like to do things their own way, which gives them competitive strength. However, one of the things they’re doing could be getting them into trouble in the artificial intelligence era. Rundoo Co-Founder and...