Category: Retail

During our recent 2022 Industry Innovators: Retail & CPG virtual event, AWS’ Justin Honaman met up with Seth Goldman, executive chairman of Beyond Meat and co-founder of PLNT Burger and Eat the Change®, to discuss Goldman’s background in the food and beverage industry as well as the keys to innovation he discovered along the way. […]

Retail has greatly transformed over the last few years, as more commerce happens online and influencers play a growing role in driving product affinity. In Asia, live stream commerce is revealing massive revenue opportunities, with retailers generating billions of dollars in minutes. Accordingly, McKinsey estimates that live stream commerce sales could account for as much […]

A lot of the changes triggered by the pandemic are here to stay, and businesses must think on their feet to meet changing demands successfully. Ecommerce has exploded, growing two to five times faster than pre-pandemic levels, according to this McKinsey report. Like all eruptions, this one too, unveiled a host of behind-the-scenes drama in […]

Learn more about the sessions and speakers featured in Track 4: Sustainability at this year’s Industry Innovators Conference for Retail & CPG 2022. You’ve heard of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG). These nonfinancial factors are taking the world by storm, but is your organization actively applying them? Sustainability is no […]

Learn more about the sessions and speakers featured in Track 3: Data & Analytics to Drive Transformation at this year’s Industry Innovators Conference for Retail & CPG 2022. Want to drive costs out while accelerating decision-making? Digitally transforming your organization is a smart place to start. It’s time retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies […]

Learn more about the sessions and speakers featured in Track 2: Future of Commerce at this year’s Industry Innovator’s Conference for Retail & CPG 2022. Gone are the days of customers shopping in silos. If the last few years have taught us anything in retail, it’s that people are looking for less separation and more […]

Learn more about the sessions and speakers featured in Track 1: Engaging Shoppers and Consumers at this year’s Industry Innovator’s Conference for Retail & CPG 2022. Brand loyalty is always at the top of companies’ minds, but it’s not the simplest thing to keep up. With a rapidly shifting economy, customer demographics, and unpredictable market […]

In just a few years, the global retail industry was uprooted. Evolving customer demand, unprecedented supply chain delays, and staffing disruptions have fundamentally altered the retail landscape—likely for good. As companies adjust to these major shifts, one thing is abundantly clear: accurate business planning can make a tremendous difference. But building precise forecasts can be […]

In our previous post How to Integrate Your Headless Commerce Retail Store With Commercetools—Part 1, we walked you through the process to integrate an ecommerce store front end with a backend retail microservice from the commercetools solution using commercetools’s APIs. Built in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, commercetools provides a set of flexible REST […]

Following a year of labor shortages, supply chain issues, and high inflation, industry leaders can’t ignore the fact that shoppers and consumers have changed. They don’t want what they wanted 5 years ago; they don’t even want what they wanted 12 months ago, leaving innovators to question: How can we best serve shoppers and consumers […]