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Wakefern names Own Brands director
The company recently promoted Chris Ruane to head a newly formed group responsible for private label strategy.
Protein powder shortage threatens America’s biggest food craze
Companies are now grappling with whether to raise prices at a time when consumers are already reeling from a prolonged period of inflation.
Flashfood launches loyalty integration to offer grocers more shopper insights
The new capability, which Meijer has already implemented, is the start of the food waste company’s “major technical transformation,” CEO Jordan Schenck said.
Grocery shoppers are trading down to lower-priced retailers, report finds
Rather than just seeking cheaper brands, more shoppers are planning to switch retailers entirely, opting for less expensive stores, Alvarez & Marsal found.
Consumer spending is healthy, but gas prices remain a risk
Higher-income shoppers have kept retail sales healthy, but the economic impact of the war in Iran presents an unknown, according to industry analysts.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. subsidiary closing Tennessee office
The Brand House Collective, formerly known as Kirkland’s Home, will close its Brentwood office — impacting 88 employees.
Simon Property Group drops effort to evict Saks Global stores behind in rent
The parties have settled a dispute that threatened to derail progress in Saks’ effort to exit bankruptcy court next month.
Carter’s interim CEO: ‘We’re in line for our refund’
Richard Westenberger said that the company has filed for around $130 million in refunds from the government due to IEEPA-related tariff charges.
Elastic Introduces Jina v5 Omni Family: Two Models to Power Text, Image, Video, and Audio Search
New addition to the Jina v5 model family delivers flexible, cost-efficient AI search across media types without rebuilding existing systems Elastic, the Search AI Company, announced jina-embeddings-v5-omni, a new family of multimodal embedding models with the ability to represent text, images, video, and audio as vectors. Developers can now perform search, classification, clustering, and deduplication […]
LTM Introduces SAP Centric AI Powered Platform to Orchestrate Intelligent, Autonomous Enterprise Operations
LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, announced the launch of the LTM Business Orchestration Platform, an AI-powered offering designed to enable enterprises to move from fragmented decision-making to real-time, intelligent operations across SAP and the wider enterprise landscape. LTM BlueVerse™ serves as the marketplace layer for scalable onboarding of SAP‑focused agents […]
GO plc Joins Connectbase Platform to Accelerate Wholesale Growth Across Malta and Cyprus
Connectbase, the global marketplace for connectivity, announced that GO plc, Malta’s leading communications provider, has joined the Connectbase platform as a Seller. The partnership will enable GO to accelerate its wholesale sales across Malta and Cyprus, enhance visibility of its network capabilities, and expand access to its Dedicated Internet Access (DIA), International Private Leased Circuit […]
GoDaddy’s Airo for WordPress Delivers AI that Builds, Grows and Continuously Improves Websites
Faster site creation and updates — all inside the familiar WordPress experience GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, launched Airo for WordPress, an AI-powered experience that transforms how small businesses and web professionals build, manage and grow their WordPress websites. Today, customers can create and launch a fully functional WordPress site in minutes with Airo for […]
New Emerson Industrial AI Platform Delivers Enterprise-Scale AI
AspenTech AVA enables customers to act faster, develop more informed strategies, improve operational reliability Global automation leader Emerson introduced the AspenTech AVA™ AI platform, specifically designed for industrial companies to accelerate AI adoption across the enterprise for measurable business impact. Offering agentic, domain-aware AI capabilities, AVA delivers the agility, efficiency and autonomy companies need to […]
Dhar Mann Launches ‘What Happens Next’ Podcast With Jameela Jamil and Anderson .Paak Among Guests (EXCLUSIVE)
Dhar Mann Studios is expanding its content slate with the launch of its first original podcast, “What Happens Next,” hosted by Dhar Mann. Premiering May 18, the weekly series marks a significant push into audio for the company founded by one of the world’s most-watched digital storytellers. The podcast builds on the success of Mann’s […]
AI remains a top priority for CMOs, but spending lags: Gartner
While 70% of CMOs say AI is a key focus for 2026, only 30% feel they have the infrastructure to achieve their goals.
Heineken focuses agency roster on fewer future-fit partners
Dentsu retains global media duties, extending a decade-long relationship, while creative is being consolidated with Publicis, WPP and Stagwell.
Brands Are Already Losing the World Cup
U.S. brands have a unique opportunity, but many are wasting it.
VideoMagic Appoints Alyson Young Castillo to Advisory Board to Accelerate Growth of AI-Powered
VideoMagic Positioned at the Intersection of Generative AI, Content Intelligence, and Video Automation VideoMagic, an AI-native platform pioneering the emerging “understanding engine” category, today announced the appointment of Alyson Young Castillo to its Advisory Board. Castillo brings extensive experience advising and scaling growth-stage SaaS and technology-enabled companies, with a strong focus on go-to-market (GTM) strategy, […]
AKOOL Unveils Breakthrough AI Video Inference Engine, Delivering 10-20× Speed Gains and Enabling Real-Time AI Video at Scale
AKOOL announced a major breakthrough in AI video infrastructure with the launch of its production-grade video inference engine, delivering 10–20× faster performance than conventional approaches and enabling real-time AI video applications at global scale. Traditional AI video generation has been constrained by speed, often requiring tens of seconds to produce a single clip. AKOOL’s new […]
Semify Launches Industry’s First Scalable AI Optimization Service Built for Agency Success
Comprehensive AI visibility platform and services combines validated tactics, proprietary SEO and AI Optimization technology built with API and MCP connectors, and white-label services to help agencies scale in AI search era Semify, a leading white-label digital marketing platform, announced the launch of its AIO service, an AI Optimization service designed to help marketing agencies […]
ImageKit Launches DAM Agent, Bringing Conversational AI to Digital Asset Management
Marketing, creative, and digital operations teams can now use natural-language prompts in ImageKit DAM to discover assets, manage taxonomy, intelligently apply tags, enforce governance policies, generate renditions, and streamline asset lifecycle workflows. ImageKit, an AI-powered digital asset management and media delivery platform, announced the launch of DAM Agent, a native AI assistant built on top […]
Stonebranch Showcases AI-Powered SAP Automation and Orchestration at SAP Sapphire 2026
Company highlights SAP-certified orchestration solutions designed to help enterprises modernize SAP operations across hybrid, cloud, and AI-driven environments. Stonebranch, a leading provider of service orchestration and automation solutions, will showcase its AI-powered platform at SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, helping enterprises modernize complex SAP operations across hybrid and cloud environments. “Stonebranch helps SAP customers orchestrate […]
The Website Is No Longer the Center of Local Discovery
For years, multi-location brands built local marketing around a fairly simple model. A customer searched, clicked a result, visited the website, and made a decision from there. Visibility was measured through rankings and traffic. Persuasion was expected to happen on the site. Performance was judged largely by what could be tracked after the click. That […] The Website Is No Longer the Center of Local Discovery first appeared on Street Fight.
How Home Depot is crafting content on the road to the World Cup
The retailer and soccer-focused media network Men in Blazers are teaming up on a traveling studio that will tap into the game’s culture across the U.S.