Why Lowe's is closing 51 stores

CEO Marvin Ellison was brought in earlier this year to transform the world’s second-largest home improvement retailer, and that's exactly what he's doing.

Technology and Innovation

The digital first CEO transforming Sam's Club

Sam's Club President and CEO John Furner has innovation on his mind and is building a warehouse club retailer for the next generation. Costco should be as concerned about Sam's as Amazon is about Walmart.

Human Capital

Essentials, Part 2: Insights & Inspiration from the Top Women Shaping Retail

Women account for 85 percent of all consumer purchases, but not even 30 percent of today’s retail industry leaders are women. Hand in hand with retail’s struggle to retain female employees, is the industry’s challenge to respond to its evolving shopper demands.

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The Perfect Forecast: How AI makes it possible

The Journey to Growth

6/22/2018 — Capturing consumers and sales has become more complex than ever. Technology has spawned unprecedented retail disruption, completely redefining the competitive landscape and giving shoppers virtually unlimited options of where to shop and what to buy.

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Suppliers

Food Retail's New Frontier

No topic in retail is hotter right now than omnichannel fulfillment, and click and collect in particular, as retailers race to meet customer expectations so that they can shop where, when and how they want. To provide insights, Retail Leader has partnered with Numerator to produce a res

Retail News

The Fresh Market delivers on brand promise

Any retailer bold enough to declare itself, “The Fresh Market,” sets a high expectation among shoppers before they ever set foot in a store. And so it is with Greensboro, N.C.-based The Fresh Market, a chain that is taking its name very serious.

Technology and Innovation

The blurry line between retail and restaurants

Restaurant delivery isn’t new, but in the age of meal kit mania and grocerants, where all types of operators are vying for share of stomach, traditional retailers face an expanded market opportunity with new competitive dynamics.

Retail News

Why stores still matter but the definition doesn't

As holiday shopping intensifies this week so will the nonsensical debate over physical vs. digital retail. In what promises to be the most highly integrated season ever, the word “store” has outlived its usefulness.

Technology and Innovation

The Perfect Forecast: A 2019 Retail Reality

The perfect demand forecast is the retail equivalent of Sasquatch or the Lochness Monster. The rumored existence of a perfect forecast, unlike those mythical creatures, will be confirmed in 2019 thanks to the advent of artificial intelligence.

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A Tasty and remarkable tale of growth

Buzzfeed’s Tasty division has experienced meteoric growth in two and a half years and there is even more ahead as Tasty’s exuberant General Manager Ashley McCollum explained in her Summit keynote presentation and this video interview.

Why Lowe's is closing 51 stores

The digital first CEO transforming Sam's Club

Essentials, Part 2: Insights & Inspiration from the Top Women Shaping Retail