This essential article pulls together what NRF 2026 revealed across the Retail Technology dispatches and what the KPMG Retail Think Tank is flagging, into five trends retailers should keep front-of-mi …

Ian McGarrigle, Chairman, World Retail Congress shares his views on the US consumer and the retailing mood following NRF 2026.

Gaurav Pant, Co-Founder and Chief Insights Officer at Incisiv gives his analysis on this year’s AI-dominated NRF and what retail executives should really be thinking about. 

Veteran retail technology expert, Jon Stine, shares his reflections on what NRF’s crowded expo floors told us about how AI is being deployed and how it is remodeling retailing.  

There are many reasons why retailers converge on New York for NRF every January. And one of them is to see as many stores as possible around the City – still one of the world’s retail capitals. We ask …

What happened at NRF’s Big Show in New York this week suggests retail may be entering not just a new chapter — but a new world. From agentic AI to Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol, from Walmart’s …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a force in the retail industry for nearly half a century.  While there is much data to show the widespread adoption, there is just as much that indicates the disa …

Want to go behind closed doors at some of the world’s most iconic retail organizations?  Step inside the minds of visionary leaders who are transforming the retail landscape across Asia, North America …

The next five years look set to be see the most radical transformation to ever impact the global retail industry. Which is why the 2026 Congress theme will be “retail’s roadmap to 2030”. To start the …

Which were the most outstanding new stores to open in the last 3 months? We asked store design expert, John Ryan, Managing director, Newstores, for his selection.