Roughly half of US adults say they have trouble affording each of nine categories, from gas (52%) down to health insurance (41%), according to a June survey from The Harris Poll cited by The Guardian.
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Become a ClientTikTok Shop has graduated from a social commerce experiment into the top player in a space that stumped every other US social network, and its future is now settled under domestic ownership.
Retail security is in the middle of a quiet but fundamental shift. For decades, cameras and alarms told retailers what had already gone wrong. Now, AI can push that same infrastructure forward by telling retailers what is going wrong right now, while there's still time for them to act.
Lenovo's North America president, Ryan McCurdy, says the AI supply constraints squeezing the industry aren't a warning sign but proof the demand curve is real. "AI adoption is increasing," McCurdy said. "The challenge is that it's outpacing the inputs into that...decade of AI." That mismatch is producing higher component costs and supply shortages across the industry, he said, but he frames it as an expected side effect of a sustained boom rather than a problem unique to Lenovo.
Q2 beat estimates as shoppers kept buying premium TVs, AI gadgets and memberships.
Meta’s settlement rewrites youth marketing: New teen safeguards will limit reach, making channel diversity and privacy compliance more critical.
TikTok brings Out of Phone to more markets: Wider DOOH access lets brands extend effective user-generated content offline.
Half of US adults (50%) respond to a bad delivery by buying the same brand somewhere else, according to a July report from Radial.
On today’s podcast episode, we present our “Unofficial Monthly Retailer Awards” (UMRAs) for August, focusing on Back-to-School activations. The awards include “Most Impactful Campaign,” “Best IRL Initiative,” and “Greatest Under-the-Radar Move.” Listen to the discussion with Vice President of Content and host Suzy Davidkhanian; Senior Analysts Arielle Feger and Carina Lamb; and Principal Analyst Sarah Marzano.
Wholesale and brand partnerships are helping fuel growth as the retailer looks beyond its own stores and website.