Latest Retail News

How Technology Leads to Lower FM Costs in the Retail Industry
Technology impacts facilities management in a few key areas. Learn more.
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.

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.
Supply Chain and Merchandising
Lifetime Brands, Traeger & Whole Foods Sign On As Early Adopters of AWS Supply Chain
The cloud app is designed to increase supply chain visibility by combining and analyzing data across multiple supply chain systems to provide manufacturers and retailers with real-time information.
Customer Engagement
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.
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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.
Retail Executives
Influentials: Top Movers and Shakers in Retail 2022
If this year in the retail industry has felt challenging, glean some inspiration from the retail influencers of 2022.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Analytics
Making the Future Foreseeable
How data-driven demand planning delivers business agility.

A collection of our latest news articles covering everything from customer experience and retail technology trends to best practices and digital transformation.

Latest Retail News

How Technology Leads to Lower FM Costs in the Retail Industry

Foot Locker Taps Ulta’s Supply Chain Veteran Elliot Rodgers Amid Leadership Shuffle

Yeti Taking Fresh Look at DTC and Omnichannel

Lifetime Brands, Traeger & Whole Foods Sign On As Early Adopters of AWS Supply Chain

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

How to Innovate and Modernize Simultaneously With Your Existing IT Teams

Influentials: Top Movers and Shakers in Retail 2022

How Dick’s Sporting Goods Fosters a Culture of Flexibility

Batteries Plus Hire New Chief Digital Officer to Spearhead E-commerce Transformation Plan

Deploying the Ironclad Store Experience

Why Your Store Experience Isn’t Working

Tech Transformation Podcast: K18 CEO Suveen Sahib On Social Commerce Strategies

Tech Transformation Video: Social Commerce Disruption With K18’s Suveen Sahib

Making the Future Foreseeable

The Surprising Way Well-being Is Branching Out into New Retail Sectors

RL Pro Exclusive Q&A: High-Ticket DTC Brand Dives into Physical Retail

Research Shows Consumers Believe Metaverse Will Be Mainstream in 5 Years