StoresThe chain drug industry's annual gathering opens August 15 at the Menino Convention Center. It is not a product show, it is a meetings show, and the first one held since Rite Aid disappeared and Walgreens went private.
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The US grocery and CPG industry's strategy event.
Shoptalk's invitation-curated US fall edition, focused on senior retail leadership meetings and operator-led sessions.
Iberian-region anchor for tech and retail tech.
The largest retail event in the world.
The B2B beauty show's January edition at the Miami Beach Convention Center, and the industry's door to Latin American distribution.
The 24th Las Vegas edition at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, the beauty industry's fastest route into the US market.
BeautyA 10 billion dollar hair styling market where the growth is going to products that style and treat at once. Cosmoprof's Style & Care trend is category convergence arriving at the shelf, and it is bad news for anything that only holds a curl.
BeautyA 15.8 billion dollar category growing at 7.3 percent, exosomes in a daily mist, cooling serums sold as a spa ritual, and a demand driver almost nobody says out loud: GLP-1 drugs. The scalp is being rebuilt as skincare, and retail has not decided where to put it.
BeautyPrestige sunscreen is outgrowing mass, the scalp has become a sun care target and the innovation is no longer in the filter. Cosmoprof's Haute Sun trend is really an argument about texture, and it moves the category off the seasonal endcap.
BeautyThe longevity molecule that built a supplement industry is now being formulated into masks, serums and devices. Cosmoprof's trend report made it the first of five directions for 2027, and the delivery question is the one nobody at the showcase wanted to answer.
BeautyCosmoprof North America brought its Buyer Meetings format to Las Vegas and published the list of retailers attending for the first time. Read that list closely and it describes a category where distribution has moved to the front of the product brief.
BeautyThe most photographed object at Cosmoprof North America was a gift set shaped like a house, built around a Finnish cartoon family. Nostalgia was named one of the show's five trends. On the floor it looked less like a mood and more like a distribution strategy.
BeautyExosomes, PDRN, NAD+ and two decimal places on an acrylic card next to the product. At Cosmoprof North America the clinical vocabulary finished its migration from the clinic to the trade stand, and the number stopped being a differentiator.
BeautyDr.BRID C turned its Cosmoprof booth into a fuselage, complete with windows, a service trolley and an hourly turbulence alert. Behind the set design sits the most crowded positioning in skincare right now: the barrier.
The business of beauty retail: brands, channels, private label, and the science behind the shelf.
BeautyThe 23rd Las Vegas edition drew more than 26,500 attendee visits and over 950 exhibitors to Mandalay Bay. More traffic across fewer stands, and a floor where the first question was no longer what is new but what does it actually do.
BeautyThe Americas' largest B2B beauty show returns to Mandalay Bay July 13-15. The exhibitor mix and the buyer program say more about where beauty retail is heading than any single product launch.
BeautyThe serum on a prestige shelf and the one at mass are often filled on the same line. As retailer own-brands expand, the contract manufacturer is quietly becoming the most important company in beauty.
How software, AI, and data are reshaping retail operations.
After years of gimmicky AR mirrors, AI-powered virtual try-on is reaching the accuracy threshold where it actually reduces returns. The early data is encouraging.
A practical look at where retailers have replaced human copywriters with LLMs, where they've quietly reverted, and what the unit-economics actually look like.
AI & TechRetail media keeps getting called the highest-margin business in retail. We unpack who's actually capturing those margins and who's spending them on tech that doesn't ship.
Marketplaces, DTC, and the economics of selling online.
Three years into the post-pandemic correction, returns remain the single biggest hidden cost in direct-to-consumer P&Ls. We look at what's actually working to bring them down.
As secondhand luxury volumes grow, the technology and cost of verifying that a handbag is real (and not a very good fake) is becoming the bottleneck.
E-commerceBetween FBA increases, referral fee shifts, and the new low-inventory penalty, the all-in cost of selling on Amazon has quietly crept past the breakpoint for several mid-tier brands.
Formats, footprints, and the future of physical retail.
StoresChristian Louboutin CEO Alexis Mourot used his Shoptalk Europe session in Barcelona to lay out something rare in luxury: an actual operating framework for desirability. Notes from the Headliner Stage.
StoresCélia Megias, visiting Shoptalk Europe in Barcelona, gives us her impressions as Retail to See's fashion and beauty director. Postcards from the main stage, the exhibition halls, and the conversations in between.
From Selfridges to Galeries Lafayette, Europe's grand magasins are cutting floor space and leasing entire wings to mono-brand tenants. The economics behind the retreat.
Sourcing, fulfillment, and the logistics of getting stuff to shelves.
The first nearshoring rush was about announcements. The second wave, now underway, is about getting the contracts, the labor, and the ports to actually line up.
Zara's parent keeps pulling away from the pack on inventory turns and margin. The operational system behind it is now so far ahead that the gap may be structural.
After more than a year of routing around the Horn of Africa, most carriers have settled into a new normal. Retailers are paying for it in inventory carrying cost, not freight.
Checkout, fraud, BNPL, and the plumbing of retail finance.
PaymentsThe post-2024 regulatory tightening on buy-now-pay-later thinned the field. We map where the surviving players added retail value and where they just added friction.
A handful of merchants are running real stablecoin checkout pilots in 2026. The use cases are narrower than the pitch decks, but the savings on cross-border are not imaginary.
With the EU caps holding firm and the Visa-Mastercard settlement in the US under renewed scrutiny, the cost of card acceptance is diverging between the two markets in ways that matter for global retailers.
Reporting, materials, and the cost of decarbonizing retail.
SustainabilityWith the first full CSRD reports landing in early 2026, retailers had to put numbers next to commitments. The first lesson: scope 3 is still mostly an estimate, and everyone knows it.
After a decade of growth, secondhand and resale platforms are facing the same gross-margin reality that retail learned the hard way. The model isn't dead, but it's getting smaller and pickier.
After five years of venture-backed experimentation, clothing rental has not cracked its cost problem. The survivors are pivoting hard.
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