Merchandising news and trends

Trax Debuts ‘Signal-Based Merchandising’ to Brands In-Store Visibility
Retail // 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 Tuesday (Feb. 27) news release, engaging shoppers in-store to gather data points so brands can...

Algolia Launches Merchandising Studio With AI Shopping Features
eCommerce // 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 marketers and eCommerce professionals to manually merchandise their category and product landing pages, the company...

Jewelry Brand Pandora Adopts o9 Solutions’ AI-Powered Planning Platform
Retail // November 20, 2023

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...

Bloomreach Adds Group Merchandising to B2B eCommerce Search Solution
B2B Payments // September 27, 2023

Bloomreach has enhanced its eCommerce search solution with group merchandising and other new features that specifically cater to B2B merchandisers. These updates to Bloomreach Discovery aim to give merchandisers greater control in optimizing the eCommerce experience for their customers, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 27) press release....

Interviews & Exclusives
How AI Will Decide What You Wear

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 […]

Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi: How Star Wars Blasted Merchandising To A New Level

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....

Quick Reads
Retail Inventories Increase 5.6% Year Over Year in February

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 Friday (March 29) press release sharing advance economic indicators. The bureau also revised its previously released figure for the percentage change from December 2023 to […]

Trax Debuts ‘Signal-Based Merchandising’ to Brands In-Store Visibility

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...

Algolia Launches Merchandising Studio With AI Shopping Features

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...

Jewelry Brand Pandora Adopts o9 Solutions’ AI-Powered Planning Platform

November 20, 2023
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...