by Mike Duff | Mar 27, 2025 | Retail Articles
Walmart has launched Wally, a new application of generative AI, to speed up and simplify merchant analysis and strategy development. Wally is an GenAI-driven assistant that, the company says, will help merchants with both big-picture thinking about and deep dive...
by Mike Duff | Mar 27, 2025 | Retail Articles
Dollar General Corp. has appointed four new executives to the company as it boosts leadership in supply chain, merchandising, store operations and finance. The appointments come after Dollar General revealed in February it had split its store operations and...
by Mike Duff | Mar 26, 2025 | Home + Housewares
The Kroger Co. has filed counterclaims to a complaint brought by Albertsons Cos. in the Delaware Court of Chancery in connection with the failed merger agreement between the two companies. Kroger stated in the counterclaim it worked diligently to seek regulatory...
by Mike Duff | Mar 26, 2025 | Beverageware, Dinnerware, Retail Articles, Serveware, Tableware
Williams-Sonoma’s Pottery Barn family of banners is expanding a partnership with fashion and lifestyle brand, LoveShackFancy, to include home decor and housewares products. New LoveShackFancy collections build on the popularity of the existing partnership with Pottery...
by Mike Duff | Mar 26, 2025 | Retail Articles
Dollar Tree released a complicated set of fourth-quarter results, including better comps but lower income from continuing operations, stirred up by the company’s decision to sell its Family Dollar business. On March 25, after a strategic review, Dollar Tree announced...
