Retail inventories increased to $808.8 billion in February. That figure is 0.5% higher than January and 5.6% higher than it was a year earlier, the Census Bureau said in a Friday (March 29) press release sharing advance economic indicators. The bureau also revised its previously...
Retail brand management company Trax has debuted its signal-based merchandising (SBM) solution. The new tool lets brands gain visibility down to the individual product level, the company said in a Tuesday (Feb. 27) news release, engaging shoppers in-store to gather data points so brands can...
Algolia has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced, data-driven Merchandising Studio that delivers improved data and visibility functionality and provides enhanced recommendations. This new offering eliminates the need for merchandisers, digital marketers and eCommerce professionals to manually merchandise their category and product landing pages, the company...
Jewelry brand Pandora has partnered with o9 Solutions, a provider of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software platforms, to enhance its integrated planning capabilities. With a focus on digital transformation, Pandora has selected o9’s AI-powered Digital Brain platform to revolutionize its planning and merchandising processes, the...
December 26, 2019
At the start of the 2010s, retail merchandising was, at base, a lot of guesswork. The fashion industry made decisions on its seasonal lines once or twice a year, production runs were ordered and goods were shipped. If things went well, and brands guessed right about consumer tastes, that was all well and good. If […]
December 16, 2017
It all started with an empty box under the Christmas tree back in 1977. More precisely, it started with several hundred thousand empty boxes under several hundred thousand Christmas trees....
January 09, 2025
Zebra Technologies has debuted a set of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for frontline retail workers. The company’s Zebra Mobile Computing AI Suite, announced Thursday (Jan. 9), comes with an AI data capture software development kit (SDK) and example applications designed for select Zebra Android mobile devices. The company says its AI capabilities allow frontline workers to capture workflow […]
March 29, 2024
Retail inventories increased to $808.8 billion in February. That figure is 0.5% higher than January and 5.6% higher than it was a year earlier, the Census Bureau said in a...
February 27, 2024
Retail brand management company Trax has debuted its signal-based merchandising (SBM) solution. The new tool lets brands gain visibility down to the individual product level, the company said in a...
January 15, 2024
Algolia has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced, data-driven Merchandising Studio that delivers improved data and visibility functionality and provides enhanced recommendations. This new offering eliminates the need for merchandisers, digital...
