From real-time stock visibility to social commerce and AI personalization, grocery retailers are embracing omnichannel innovations that enhance convenience, boost conversions, and reshape shopping habits in 2025.
EY highlights five key strategies - insights, inventory, distribution, logistics, and real estate - that retailers must integrate to build resilient and customer-centric omnichannel operations.
Y Combinator’s 2025 retail cohort features startups like Two Tap, Aleph, and SureBright, pioneering innovations in seamless checkout, marketplace scaling, and AI-powered warranties that are redefining modern commerce.
IKEA and Best Buy are testing a first-of-its-kind U.S. partnership, bringing IKEA’s home planning services and furniture into 10 Best Buy stores across Florida and Texas, blending design and technology to streamline home improvement projects.
Combining deep industry experience with AI-driven creativity, AdFury.ai streamlines retail media advertising, saving time, ensuring brand consistency, and boosting performance for brands on platforms like Walmart Connect.
Walmart posted 4.6% U.S. sales growth last quarter, outpacing rivals even as tariffs and operating costs pressured margins.
By saving time, cutting costs, and offering sensory engagement, BOPIS has become a preferred shopping method, and retailers are evolving it further with curbside pickup, smart lockers, and AI-driven efficiency.
Leading retailers are advancing beyond greenwashing, leveraging circular models, traceability, and operational efficiencies to meet modern consumer and investor demands while driving business resilience.
Retail brands are safeguarding their core values by embedding cultural context, soft skills, and adaptability into digital transformation training programs.
Grant Thornton outlines how retailers can unlock AI’s true potential by aligning intent, timing, and transparency across the omnichannel journey.
Walmart is remodeling over 650 stores in 2025 with digital touchpoints, activated experiential zones, and upgraded pharmacies—part of its “Store of the Future” agenda.
On Labor Day, Walmart delivers deep savings across home, tech, and school gear, cementing its omnichannel strategy as summer winds down.
Malls in 2025 are leveraging omnichannel tools and sustainability strategies to stay relevant and attract modern shoppers.
Omnichannel merchandising software powered by AI is helping retailers streamline planning, reduce inventory risk, and respond faster to market trends.
Retailers must move beyond Amazon’s digital-first playbook to win in Retail Media 2.0 with native, omnichannel media experiences.
Retailers are adopting omnichannel merchandise planning software with AI and real-time integration to improve agility, visibility, and customer satisfaction.