Black Friday Breaks Online Sales Record, But What About Stores?

Shoppers hit the stores, and the screens, on Black Friday. Learn what new record was broke and how the storied shopping day played out.

Roadmaps

IT Intervention: Shortcutting the Backlog to Enable Retail’s Digital Future

Legacy systems are ranked as top challenge for retailers. Learn the steps to determine the sweet spots for low-code in critical app modernization initiatives and begin leveraging them in your digital transformations.

Roadmaps

How to Innovate and Modernize Simultaneously With Your Existing IT Teams

RIS sits down with Erika Arena, retail industry principal, Mendix, to discuss how retailers can increase the capacity of their IT teams to tackle digital transformation and stay on top of innovation.

Marketing
Reduced Consumer Spending Requires Smarter Tactics In-Store
Location-based marketing is key to allowing retailers to build hyper-personalized campaigns. But how can retailers get started? Learn here.
Big Data
How Technology Leads to Lower FM Costs in the Retail Industry
Technology impacts facilities management in a few key areas. Learn more.
Research and Reports
Voices From The Frontline: What the Seasonal (and Yearly!) Retail Workforce Wants
Almost half of U.S. frontline retail employees are thinking of leaving their jobs in the next few months. Learn how retailers are navigating this talent crunch by offering more flexibility, personalized benefits, and a powerful, people-centric culture.

Store Systems
How Dick’s Sporting Goods Fosters a Culture of Flexibility
In conversation with RIS News, Penelope Sur, the vice president of talent management for Dick’s Sporting Goods, outlines the ways the team has embedded flexibility into their benefits and the impacts these initiatives have had on the business overall.
Digital Transformation
Batteries Plus Hire New Chief Digital Officer to Spearhead E-commerce Transformation Plan
As part of a broader effort to revamp digital experiences, Batteries Plus have brought in Aaron Bundschuh as its chief digital officer. In this new role, Bundschuh will oversee the digital transformation of the company's e-commerce operations.
Sponsored
Roadmaps
Deploying the Ironclad Store Experience
Welcome to the omnichannel experience 2.0, which moves beyond merely integrating selling channels, to retailers creating truly unified customer experiences. Read on to learn what retailers need to bulletproof their store experience in the year ahead.
Sponsored
Roadmaps
Why Your Store Experience Isn’t Working
Shoppers need flexible, real-time fulfillment options and a bad experience can leave them dissatisfied – and looking elsewhere to shop. Learn what stores need to create the perfect shopper experience and how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can help.
Tech Transformation Podcasts
Tech Transformation Podcast: K18 CEO Suveen Sahib On Social Commerce Strategies
In this episode of Tech Transformation, we’re digging into social commerce with the disruptive haircare brand K18.
Retail Executives
Foot Locker Taps Ulta’s Supply Chain Veteran Elliot Rodgers Amid Leadership Shuffle
Foot Locker is making several changes to its executive leadership team. See who was hired and who is being promoted. Hint: One veteran leader was named our CIO of the year in 2021.
Tech Transformation Videos
Tech Transformation Video: Social Commerce Disruption With K18’s Suveen Sahib
Watch to learn how disruptive haircare brand K18 is leveraging social commerce to turn heads in the crowded beauty retail market.
Supply Chain and Merchandising
Yeti Taking Fresh Look at DTC and Omnichannel
Yeti Holdings is increasingly looking at total acquisition and retention trends as it thinks about measuring the reach of direct-to-consumer, a channel the company remains full-speed-ahead on growing.