Shrink down, margins up at Dollar General a year after removing nearly all self-checkout
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A year after its move to take out most of...
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How digital signage plays in improving the customer experience in convenience stores
TechnologyAs c-stores increasingly embrace digital signage, commercial display providers in this sector continually innovate, offering advanced software solutions for monitoring, including dedicated cloud services and robust support.Photo: Generated by AI....
Small businesses say AI hasn’t lived up to the hype
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Small businesses using AI say the technology hasn’t lived up...
Numerator debuts tariff risk index for measuring vulnerability
OmnichannelPhoto: Adobe StockMay 30, 2025Numerator has released a Tariff Risk Index to quantify vulnerability across consumer categories to tariff-driven disruption.The analytical framework integrates government data with Numerator consumer purchase panel...
Why Most Retailers Will Fall Behind in the Unified Commerce Benchmark 2025—and How to Catch Up
If you have felt like the pace of change in retail is accelerating, you are right. The Unified Commerce Benchmark (UCB) 2025 report by Manhattan Associates, now covering 250 specialty...
Strengthen Your Tactical Demand Planning with These 7 Steps
As brands grow, demand planning evolves from a monthly or batch-based spreadsheet chore into a reality that can make or break a fiscal quarter. With sales channels multiplying, supply chains...
Consumer pessimism eases amid cooling in US-China tariff war
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Consumer pessimism about the future eased in May after a...
Kroger hiring 15K associates to drive better customer experience
Customer ServicePhoto: Kenishirotie - stock.adobe.comMay 28, 2025The Kroger Co. is aiming to hire 15,000 store associates across a wide range of roles in a quest to enhance the customer experience.The...
How small c-stores can survive
From the rise and fall of the COVID-19 pandemic to ballooning inflation and interest rates, difficult economic conditions have forced many small c-store operators to sell to competitors that are...
Parker’s Kitchen expanding in South Carolina’s Grand Strand
MarketingPhoto courtesy of Parker's KitchenMay 23, 2025Parker's Kitchen convenience brand is expanding its footprint to the Grand Strand area in South Carolina.The company began with one stores in 1976 in...
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