Retail Sales

Santé raises $15M to put AI sales agents in nearly 1,000 liquor stores

Liquor store POS and payments platform Santé raised $15M to build AI agents that drive sales for nearly 1,000 stores.

Deloitte: Holiday e-commerce to reach up to $319B in 2026–27

Deloitte expects online holiday sales to grow 7.5% to 8.4% from November through January, well ahead of the 4% to 4.8% it projects for all retail.

Club stores drove nearly half of the growth in $330B U.S. store-brand sales

Circana puts U.S. private label at $330B and 24% of units, with club stores driving nearly half of private brand growth and the pace set to ease through 2026.

Walmart’s e-commerce is past 23% of U.S. sales, and stores are being reworked into the fulfillment layer

Walmart’s U.S. e-commerce sales grew 24% in Q2 and now exceed 23% of the segment’s mix. The operational story is how stores are being engineered to carry that l

Walmart’s 24% e-commerce growth is forcing a store ops rewrite, even as stores still carry the volume

Walmart's Q2 showed e-commerce sales up 24% and now over 23% of U.S. segment sales. For operators, the question is how fast stores become fulfillment nodes without breaking labor and inventory systems.

Whatnot hits $20 billion valuation as live-auction commerce goes mainstream retail

Whatnot raised $545M at a $20B valuation, nearly doubling in months, as live-auction commerce forces enterprise retailers to rethink digital selling.

Whatnot hits $20 billion valuation as retailers weigh live shopping amid soft domestic demand

Whatnot nearly doubled its valuation in under a year, reaching $20B, as brands face slowing domestic demand and hunt for new sales channels.

Agentic AI is rewriting retail operations, and Salesforce's Brunello Cucinelli deal shows how fast

Salesforce's Callimacus deployment at Brunello Cucinelli signals a shift in how enterprise retailers are operationalizing agentic AI at scale.

Agentic AI is reshaping enterprise retail operations as Salesforce, Lululemon, and Brunello Cucinelli move from pilots to production

Salesforce's Callimacus deployment with Brunello Cucinelli and Lululemon's expanding AI stack signal a shift from retail AI pilots to operational infrastructure

Tractor Supply, Albertsons, and DoorDash-Shopify moves signal a structural shift toward digital retail investment

Tractor Supply, Albertsons, and DoorDash-Shopify are each making structural bets on digital commerce as online retail's share of total commerce keeps growing.

Conversational commerce, retail media, and a 0.2% June sales print are rewriting the enterprise retail playbook

Three converging forces, AI chat shopping, booming retail media, and a soft June sales number, are forcing enterprise retail operators to act now.

AI-influenced retail ecommerce is on track to reshape how enterprise merchandisers plan and buy

AI is moving from a back-office tool to a measurable driver of online retail sales, with implications for how operators source and forecast demand.

Amazon Business hits $60 billion in annualized sales as AI and computer vision reshape B2B ecommerce in 2026

Amazon Business, Instacart, and agentic AI are rewriting the rules of B2B and grocery ecommerce, here's what operators need to know.

How omnichannel 3PLs are closing the retail compliance gap for growing brands

Brands managing DTC, wholesale, and marketplace channels from separate inventory pools face OTIF penalties and rising fulfillment costs. Here's what the shift l

Sports Retailing with Matt Powell

A sports retail expert examines how brands are rethinking their go-to-market strategies in an increasingly competitive marketplace