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Inditex-owned Zara will soon begin hosting 鈥淶ara Streaming鈥� live-shopping shows for customers in the US, the UK, Canada, and select European markets, following success with the format in China. The retailer plans to host the live shows exclusively on its app and website in an attempt to exert maximum control over aesthetics, as well as drive more shoppers to its owned channels.

In addition, TJX reported higher-than-expected Q1 earnings and plans to continue capitalizing on price-sensitive shoppers with another 1,300 new stores in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Listen to the full episode. This was originally featured in the Retail Daily newsletter. For more retail insights, statistics, and trends, subscribe here.

As a result, more than a third (34%) of ecommerce retailers in the UK, US, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain plan to increase their delivery charges in 2024, per a November 2023 study by ShipEngine and Retail Economics. But consumers don鈥檛 want to pay extra for delivery.

The role of mobile apps in retail media. Shoppers spend nearly twice as long on Temu鈥檚 app than its competitors. How to reach Gen Z in 2024, according to new data. Nearly a third of in-store shoppers buy something immediately after discovering it.

Over the past few years, Walmart has opened its marketplace to international merchants from China, Canada, Japan, and the UK, according to our US Retail Ecommerce Marketplaces Forecast 2023 report. Now, the marketplace offers around 400 million SKUs from marketplace sellers, up from 75 million pre-pandemic, per our report.

Despite early adoption, programmatic has stopped gaining much new ground in Canada. Though similar to the US in many respects, Canada likely owes its slightly higher programmatic penetration to Meta鈥檚 outsize influence. Like other social networks, Meta serves the vast majority of its ads programmatically. Meta will account for 30.2% of digital ad spending in Canada this year.

US retail marketplace ecommerce sales will grow 11.4% to reach $428.30 billion this year, per our forecast. Because Amazon (73.4%) and eBay (8.2%) will rake in the majority of those sales, smaller marketplaces like Shein, Michaels, and Wayfair are getting creative and taking the battle for sales in-store.

More than an AI pilot, Green Dot Assist will roll out across the US and Canada in fiscal 2026 as part of CEO Brian Niccol鈥檚 effort to reverse slowing US sales and restore brand efficiency. Starbucks showcased the tech to 14,000 managers, signaling confidence in scalability. Can AI brew efficiency?

The news: Publicis Groupe has won Coca-Cola鈥檚 US and Canada media business, taking it from WPP, according to Adweek. The decision followed a closed-door review between the two holding companies and marks a major shift in Coca-Cola鈥檚 media strategy.

While the administration鈥檚 evolving policies create uncertainty, we鈥檝e modeled three scenarios for 2025 retail spending鈥攔anging from limited to heavy tariffs. In the heavy tariff scenario, retail sales are projected to decline 1.0% YoY, compared to 2.9% growth under the limited scenario, making it clear that tariffs will significantly slow retail growth.

What happened: Earlier this year, a Canadian court ruled against Air Canada after its chatbot gave incorrect information about a funeral policy. The airline's defense that the chatbot was a separate legal entity was dismissed.

Victoria鈥檚 Secret, Party City, and Lush Cosmetics are the newest retail partners DoorDash has added to its platform as it expands beyond restaurant delivery to offer customers on-demand delivery for alcohol, grocery, and convenience items.

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So Insider Intelligence retail briefings analyst Rachel Wolf recently wrote about a few investments that major retailers are making in this in-store retail media space. So Canadian grocer Loblaw is adding digital screens to over 500 stores so brands can target shoppers.

Tariff escalation reshapes Latin America trade: New duties disrupt retail margins, inventory flows, and regional growth forecasts.

Building on previous measures (including a 25% duty on automobiles and certain auto parts, along with a 25% blanket levy on Canadian and Mexican goods not covered by USMCA), these evolving policies have created widespread uncertainty. There's significant uncertainty ahead.

The retail outlook for 2025 is worse than previously anticipated. However, many smaller emerging markets are still in line for strong years, and ecommerce continues to claw share from traditional retail.

On today鈥檚 episode, host Bill Fisher is joined by our analysts Paul Briggs, Matteo Ceurvels, and Carina Perkins to talk about the upcoming crowning of King Charles III in the UK, other major events around the world, and what sort of effects they will have on retail and marketing.

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A ransomware attack at supply-chain services provider Blue Yonder affected Starbucks鈥� ability to manage schedules and pay workers at 11,000 stores in the US and Canada. The attack also impacted UK grocers Morrisons and Sainsbury鈥檚.

I know in certain countries, including Canada for example, Amazon has 80% of the retail media ad spending market and it's similar in many other countries. What's it like in various LatAm countries? Matteo Ceurvels:.

Brazil will also be home to the world鈥檚 third-most-penetrated cross-border buyer market this year, behind only Singapore and Canada, per our forecast. Listen Next. Around the World: Economic effects on retail and ecommerce. Around the World: The international forecasts of past (2023), present (now), and future (2024).

The retail space is changing rapidly as marketers experiment with things like retail media, generative AI, and social commerce. In this discussion, Zia Daniell Wigder, Chief Content Officer, Insider Intelligence, talks about the trends on her radar and what she learned at Shoptalk.