#RICE24 Agenda First Look: How We’re Bringing Content, Community and Commerce to Life!
Are you ready to dive into the evolving customer journey with us at the Retail Innovation Conference & Expo (#RICE24) this June!? This year’s event will feature more than 55 sessions, including Workshops, Roundtables, Next Stage Sessions in the expo hall, Keynotes and Breakouts across three tracks – Content, Community and Commerce, plus our new […]
What Are Retailers’ Top Omnichannel Priorities?
Every year, Retail TouchPoints surveys its community of industry executives to understand their top omnichannel challenges, successes and priorities. Although historically, retailers have focused on the strategic benefits of omnichannel, such as creating a consistent brand experience and reacting more quickly to changing market dynamics, this year, results pointed to more executives wanting to connect […]
Meet Our #RICE24 Keynote! Dr. Marcus Collins: Professor, Author and Culture Scholar
Culture has a profound influence on commerce. How we buy, why we buy and where we buy is driven by how we live and the cultural moments that shape our communities. This is a foundational theme for this year’s Retail Innovation Conference & Expo, which is why we’re thrilled to introduce our keynote speaker: Dr. […]
#RICE24 Registration is LIVE! Special Rates Now Available
While we’re surviving the cold temperatures and heavy snowfall here in the northeast, we’re eagerly awaiting the arrival of June! Of course, the warmer weather is a big reason for that (let’s fast forward the clock, please), it’s also because we’re so stoked to share everything we have planned for the Retail Innovation Conference & […]
Pinterest Showcases the Trends that will Shape 2024 at Shoppable NYC Pop-Up
2023 BEA Winner for Convergence of Content & Commerce – Babylist
This year’s Brand Experience Award winners represented the shifting priorities of the industry – from focusing on speed, efficiency and safety to complete immersion and personalization across all channels. Check out the full report, which includes a variety of insights and tactics from each award winner! One brand winner that we’re thrilled to highlight is […]
Demystifying Connected TV: How to Leverage Advertising’s Hottest New Channel
Inside Our 2024 Theme: The Evolving Customer Journey – Converging Content, Community and Commerce
After months of analyzing event feedback from the past few years and having in-depth conversations with our attendees, we discovered that understanding (and adapting to) the evolved customer journey is at the heart of many retail organizations’ leadership discussions and priorities. And digging further into this topic, we found that these discussions revolve around three […]
What Trends Are Driving Store Ops Budgets?
The Store Operations Survey has become a pillar resource for Retail TouchPoints. Through a survey of retail executives and practitioners, the editorial team has identified top store priorities and the challenges facing managers and operations teams. Every year, associate hiring and retention have been respondents’ top challenge. But this year, the context surrounding these challenges […]
40 Under 40 2024: Nominate an Emerging Leader!
The 40 Under 40 Awards were designed to spotlight emerging leaders who have made a tangible impact on not just their business, but the retail industry and the world. For our 2023 class of winners, we were thrilled to spotlight executives who have not only driven incredible projects and initiatives at their organizations; they have […]