The Cost Behind the Cost: Why Retailers Need to Rethink Their Payment Strategy
Emanuel Pleitez
Credit cards and e-commerce now dominate modern retail, making cash increasingly obsolete and payment processing critical to a retailer’s financial health. Yet many small and medium-sized businesses still do not fully understand how processing fees impact their bottom line. …
6 Ways that Subject Line Writing Has Changed
Roop
Have your subject line writing strategies and tactics kept up with the times? Check and see if you’re accounting for these six changes in subject line writing. …
Email Marketing Trends for 2024: Competitive Differentiators
Offering the biggest reward for the least risk, these 7 email marketing tactics and technologies are rated as low adoption but high impact by our digital marketing experts. …
A Recap of Top Trends and Takeaways From Shoptalk 2025
Kristina Stidham
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail’s Joe Keenan and Marie Albiges share their biggest takeaways from Shoptalk 2025, held from March 25-27 in Las Vegas. They detail the key industry trends discussed on stage at the event as well as the insightful …
The Peak Season Reality Gap: What Retailers Must Do Differently in 2025
Josh Lett
In retail, confidence is a double-edged sword. Our recent industry analysis revealed a startling disconnect: while 93 percent of supply chain leaders entered the 2024 peak season confident they would meet customer expectations, post-season data showed that 58 percent struggled with delivery timing and order …
How REBEL is Tackling Retail’s Returns Problem
While attending Shoptalk 2025 in Las Vegas from March 25-27, Total Retail’s Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan had the opportunity to interview Emily Hosie, founder and CEO of REBEL, formerly REBELStork, a Certified B Corp and the leading tech-driven recommerce solution for returns and overstock in North …
Apparel, Footwear Retailers Delay Orders, Freeze Hiring as Tariffs Hit
Clothing and accessories retailers across the United States are delaying orders and freezing hiring ahead of tariff hikes that take effect Wednesday on products imported from Vietnam and China, reports Reuters. These businesses, much like Nike and Lululemon, face an impossible choice: offset the cost …
Navigating the Cloud with Confidence: A Strategic Guide to Oracle NetSuite ERP Transformation
ERP News
In an era defined by disruption, agility, and relentless digital innovation, cloud ERP is no longer a “nice to have”—it’s the engine of modern enterprise. For many mid-market and growing businesses, Oracle NetSuite has emerged as the cloud-native ERP platform of choice. But making the …
Deloitte Launches AI Advantage for CFOs With AWS and Anthropic
Deloitte announced AI Advantage for CFOs, an integrated AI-powered analytics and insights platform built in collaboration with Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic’s large language models (LLMs). This solution includes Finance Automation Agents, designed to automate key finance processes using intelligent AI agents and AI finance analysis …
Email Marketing Trends for 2024: Proven Essentials
These 16 email marketing technologies and tactics are considered by Oracle Digital Experience Agency’s experts to be Proven Essentials–that is, high adoption-high impact trends that every brand must master. …
