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. …
City Beach Australia’s Head of Marketing and Content on its US Expansion Strategy
While attending Shoptalk 2025 in Las Vegas from March 25-27, Total Retail’s Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan had the opportunity to speak with Talia Bianchi, head of marketing and content at City Beach Australia. Bianchi provides an overview of the Australian apparel brand, why the U.S. market …
Online Resale Marketplace GoodwillFinds Shutters
GoodwillFinds, Goodwill’s online resale marketplace, announced it stopped taking new orders and was shuttering on March 28, according to its website. The nonprofit thrift chain that operates over 3,300 locations launched GoodwillFinds in 2022, creating its first centralized online business. Thrifted items were listed on …
Target Reduces Salaried Employee Bonuses Following 2024 Results
Target salaried employees who are eligible for bonuses will only receive 87 percent of their potential bonus for fiscal year 2024 based on total-year financial performance, reports YahooFinance. That percentage is a considerable drop from FY 2023, when bonuses were paid at 100 percent. In …
How Better Product Experiences Can Reduce Returns, Enhance Brand Loyalty, and Protect the Planet
The holiday season has come and gone, and as the dust starts to settle, this means one thing for most brands: returns. While it’s always been normal for consumers to exchange that one gifted shirt that didn’t quite fit right or that well-intentioned but hideous …
Dollar Tree to Sell Family Dollar Brand
Ten years after acquiring the Family Dollar brand in an effort to fit it into its wider bargain store business, Dollar Tree is selling off the retailer for $1 billion. The Virginia-based company announced Wednesday it was selling Family Dollar to private capital firms Brigade …
Rethinking Retail Loyalty: Why Travel Rewards Could Be the Next Big Strategy
American consumers have become value-obsessed, shaping their shopping behaviors. In the last quarter of 2024, McKinsey reported that 74 percent of U.S. shoppers admitted to trading down — i.e., switching retailers, delaying purchases, or seeking better value — despite spending more overall than in previous …
Inbox Tabs Become Standard: What Marketers Need to Know
Apple Mail adds tabs, making tabs a near-universal inbox feature. What does this mean for marketers? And how are Apple Mail’s tabs different? …
NetSuite Announces Innovations to Help Organizations in Mexico Increase Efficiency and Drive Success
Oracle NetSuite announced a series of new AI-powered capabilities and product updates across the suite to help organizations in Mexico increase efficiency and take advantage of new opportunities. The latest innovations include powerful new predictive, generative, and agentic AI capabilities embedded in NetSuite, as well …