Lowe's will open five new stores this year starting in Port St. Lucie, Florida in June, equipping locations with digital signage, QR-linked tools, and redesigned showrooms as big-box retailers continue to grow while others shrink.
A new sponsored analysis in Retail Dive argues that retail media's next growth constraint isn't inventory or demand, it's the organizational friction that stops good ideas from ever reaching the customer.
Horizon Media's Blue Hour Studios is using creators as a live feedback signal for SharkNinja campaigns, letting them pressure-test ideas and sometimes influence product development before anything goes to market.
Three senior Trade Desk executives are out, MiQ has now made five acquisitions since 2022, and one unnamed source says independent ad tech firms face a stark choice: bulk up or drift into 'zombie company' status.
UBS analysts project more than 40,000 U.S. store closures over the next five years, driven by e-commerce growth, AI-assisted shopping, and tariff pressure — with department stores and specialty retailers bearing most of the pain.
Ulta Beauty is enabling purchases through Google AI Mode and the Gemini app within the month, while simultaneously launching an on-site AI shopping assistant built on Gemini Enterprise — a double bet on Google's commerce infrastructure.
Sam's Club has rolled out a new sub-one-hour Express delivery tier across more than 600 locations, intensifying the fast-fulfillment arms race with Amazon and raising the stakes for commerce media placements tied to immediate-need shopping missions.