Retail Media Isn’t About Joining a Network. It’s About Owning One.
CPGs aren’t looking for a convenience customer. They’re looking for your customer [PAR Retail].
​🔥AI Hot Take: Retailers don’t need more ad partners — they need more first‑party power. The winners are the ones who turn their own data into the network.
How the Retailer-Supplier Model is Transforming Airline Partnerships
Today’s travelers demand a truly seamless experience. One where the offer they’ve purchased is delivered reliably across their entire journey [Amadeus].
🔥AI Hot Take: You can’t build modern airline retail on legacy plumbing. Standardization is the only path to dynamic offers that work across the ecosystem.
How Torchy's Achieved a 98% Training Completion Rate with Smarter Employee Enablement
To create a bigger sense of connection and make learning and culture more scalable, the team doubled down on what makes Torchy’s, Torchy’s [Wisetail].
🔥AI Hot Take: Frontline teams don’t resist training — they resist bad training. Torchy’s success shows that intuitive design beats enforcement every time.​
Six Lessons in Retail Technology Adoption and Change Management from Schnucks
​Two executives discuss what they learned along the way and what advice they would offer retailers implementing store intelligence technology today [Simbe].
🔥AI Hot Take: Retail tech doesn’t fail because it’s new — it fails because teams aren’t ready. Schnucks proved adoption is a culture strategy, not a deployment plan.
What Agentic Commerce Looks Like in Practice: Insights from Five Leading Retailers
Five retail brands share their strategies, challenges, and the questions they haven't answered yet [Adyen].
🔥AI Hot Take: The future of retail isn’t predictive — it’s proactive. Agents that act on signals in real time will define the next generation of winners.
You don’t spot them in restaurants much today, but after what we saw at last week’s NRA Show, that may soon change [Pictured: Attendees viewing one option from Zox Robotics].
