by Mike Duff | Mar 27, 2025 | Retail Articles
Walmart has launched Wally, a new application of generative AI, to speed up and simplify merchant analysis and strategy development. Wally is an GenAI-driven assistant that, the company says, will help merchants with both big-picture thinking about and deep dive...
by Mike Duff | Jan 24, 2025 | Featured News, Retail Articles
Retail will delve deeper into a more personalized digitized future in 2025, according to the 2025 U.S. Retail Industry Outlook from Deloitte. Deloitte expects a shift from a supply-driven model based on matching goods and mass market movements to a data-driven...
by Mike Duff | Dec 17, 2024 | Featured News, Retail Articles
Coresight Research’s annual year-ahead outlook concludes a substantial proportion of retailers will move toward a unified strategy supporting seamless transitions connecting shopper touch points while leveraging emergent technology in consumer service and...
by Mike Duff | Nov 1, 2024 | Featured News, Retail Articles
The third quarter was kind to Amazon.com as it beat Wall Street estimates on sales and earnings while generating substantially more product and service revenues. Net income was $15.33 billion, or $1.43 per diluted share, versus $9.88 billion, or 94 cents per diluted...
by Mike Duff | Oct 14, 2024 | Retail Articles
Walmart has developed a system of platforms as the basis of a combined proprietary artificial intelligence, GenAI, augmented reality and immersive commerce function that the company maintains will allow it to accelerate its entry into a new retail era. The company...