Shoptalk Spring 2026

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Culture Is a Lead Indicator of Revenue. Sarah Engel Has the Numbers to Prove It.
Leadership Q&A

Culture Is a Lead Indicator of Revenue. Sarah Engel Has the Numbers to Prov...

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Culture Is a Lead Indicator of Revenue. Sarah Enge...

Sarah Engel has spent more than two decades in marketing. As President of January Digital, she leads the marketing leadership company and media agency...

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What Shoptalk Spring 2026 Is Really About - Exclusive Interview with Shoptalk President Zia Daniell Wigder
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What Shoptalk Spring 2026 Is Really About - Exclusive Interview with Shopta...

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What Shoptalk Spring 2026 Is Really About - Exclus...

Retail executives arriving in Vegas this month are not debating whether AI will reshape their business. That debate is already over. The real question...

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Why Beauty's Smartest Growth Plays Start With Measurement, Not Media
Beauty Marketing

Why Beauty's Smartest Growth Plays Start With Measurement, Not Media

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Why Beauty's Smartest Growth Plays Start With Meas...

Emily Rose Campbell, Head of Performance at Iced Media, explains why beauty brands need to move past ROAS fixation and DTC-only measurement. She share...

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eTail Palm Springs

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How Bombas Keeps Its Mission Intact as It Moves into Mainstream Retail
eTail Palm Springs 2026

How Bombas Keeps Its Mission Intact as It Moves into Mainstream Retail

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How Bombas Keeps Its Mission Intact as It Moves in...

Most brands that talk about purpose treat it as a channel. A campaign lever. Something to activate when the quarterly numbers need a story. The result...

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The TikTok Perfume Effect: What Moroccanoil's Measurement Gap Tells Every Senior Marketer
AI in marketing

The TikTok Perfume Effect: What Moroccanoil's Measurement Gap Tells Every S...

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The TikTok Perfume Effect: What Moroccanoil's Meas...

The most persuasive TikTok data point Moroccanoil collected in 2025 was not in any dashboard. Staff overheard it at a tennis tournament. In February o...

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Why ROAS Is No Longer Enough for Retail Media in 2026
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Why ROAS Is No Longer Enough for Retail Media in 2026

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Why ROAS Is No Longer Enough for Retail Media in 2...

E-commerce teams are measuring their retail media performance with a number that can be engineered to look good. ROAS is clean, reportable, and easy t...

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Why Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists as AI Gets Better
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Why Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists as AI Gets Better

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Why Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists ...

The shopping journey has always involved a kind of surrender. You surrender to a brand’s editorial curation when you browse a site. You surrende...

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At Target, the Only Wrong Move Is Opting Out
eTail Palm Springs 2026

At Target, the Only Wrong Move Is Opting Out

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At Target, the Only Wrong Move Is Opting Out

Most organizations right now are running some version of the same experiment: distribute access to AI tools, watch what happens, and try to figure out...

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Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built an Influencer Measurement Model That Finance Actually Trusts
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built an Influencer Measurement...

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Why Allbirds Ditched Earned Media Value and Built ...

Every influencer marketer has the same nightmare conversation. The CFO asks for the revenue number. The marketer opens a dashboard full of impressions...

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Why Unique Vintage Replaced ROAS With Contribution Margin Per View
eTail Palm Springs 2026

Why Unique Vintage Replaced ROAS With Contribution Margin Per View

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Why Unique Vintage Replaced ROAS With Contribution...

Most apparel brands know their gross margins. Fewer know whether the traffic they are paying for actually generates profit after returns, fulfillment,...

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How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Into a Fashion Audience
eTail Palm Springs 2026

How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Into a Fashion Audience

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How Walmart Turned 145 Million Weekly Shoppers Int...

Most retailers chasing fashion credibility start by shrinking their audience. They curate harder, raise prices, and build mystique around scarcity. Th...

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NRF 2026

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A Recap of NRF2026: Click's Main Takeaways
AI

A Recap of NRF2026: Click's Main Takeaways

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A Recap of NRF2026: Click's Main Takeaways

At NRF 2026, the signal was clear: AI is rewriting discovery, but the brands that win will be the ones that keep the customer promise, online, in-stor...

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How Ralph Lauren is using AI to scale luxury service without losing heritage
NRF 2026

How Ralph Lauren is using AI to scale luxury service without losing heritag...

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How Ralph Lauren is using AI to scale luxury servi...

At NRF 2026, Ralph Lauren and Microsoft shared how "Ask Ralph" brings brand heritage into conversational commerce, and what it teaches marketers about...

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How Fran Horowitz quietly rebuilt Abercrombie
NRF 2026

How Fran Horowitz quietly rebuilt Abercrombie

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How Fran Horowitz quietly rebuilt Abercrombie

NRF 2026 Visionary award winner Fran Horowitz shares how humility, customer listening, and team autonomy powered Abercrombie’s turnaround and what com...

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REI’s CEO Is Betting on Trust in an Age of Agentic Commerce
Customer Marketing

REI’s CEO Is Betting on Trust in an Age of Agentic Commerce

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REI’s CEO Is Betting on Trust in an Age of Agentic...

As AI reshapes commerce, REI’s CEO - Mary Beth Laughton, argues that trust and human expertise, not technology, will define the next era of retail. Re...

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The Great Scale-Up: Retailers Going All In on In-Store
Commerce & Sales

The Great Scale-Up: Retailers Going All In on In-Store

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The Great Scale-Up: Retailers Going All In on In-S...

In-store retail media is no longer a “does it work?” question. It’s a “can you operate it?” question. At NRF, leaders from CVS, Loblaw, and STRATACACH...

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What Fanatics and Dick’s Sporting Goods reveal about the next era of retail marketing
Advertising & Promotion

What Fanatics and Dick’s Sporting Goods reveal about the next era of retail...

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What Fanatics and Dick’s Sporting Goods reveal abo...

Fanatics and Dick’s Sporting Goods are taking opposite paths, one digital, one physical, but their retail marketing strategy is built on the same idea...

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Building the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is scaling smarter
AI

Building the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is scaling smarter

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Building the AI-ready enterprise: How JD Sports is...

Agentic commerce and GEO are coming fast, but JD Sports argues the real advantage is operational: clean data and order management that keeps the custo...

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The AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead for Retail
Marketing Technology

The AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead for Retail

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The AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead fo...

At NRF'26, Google introduced UCP for agentic commerce while Walmart unveiled agent-led shopping in Gemini. Discover what Sundar Pichai (Google, CEO) a...

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