Mitchell Parton

On Thursday, Sam's Club hosted its first-ever Sam's Wellness Club, an exclusive event bringing together creators, media and merchants at a loft event space overlooking Midtown Manhattan. Here's why the club retailer is so keen on promoting its health and wellness offerings right now.

Retail media content is becoming more complex, with major brands like Procter & Gamble making big investments in videos made specifically to reach shoppers on screens in grocery stores or while shopping on an app.

When e-commerce website Bookshop.org launched in January 2020, its goal was to take share from Amazon and deliver some of its profits to local bookstores.

Kroger's announcement last month that it would buy Giant Eagle for just under $1.7 billion was one of the grocer's first major moves under new CEO Greg Foran, an indicator of how the company's strategy could look going forward.

One of the best-known arts and crafts retailers in the U.S. has lifted the curtain on how its new Google Gemini-powered AI assistant has performed so far.

St. Louis-based regional grocer Schnucks just launched a new AI assistant, but behind it is a larger idea around how agents could eventually take over the shopping process and help people eat healthier.

In and around New York City, national discount grocery chains like Aldi and Lidl have found new neighborhoods to pop up in — following the local success of chains such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe's over the past decades.

Over the past couple of years, Walmart has been taking more control of Sam's Club from the corporate level, in some cases merging teams or using shared platforms in areas like supply chain and e-commerce.

Circle K is more openly promoting and expanding its retail media network, Full Circle Media, as a way for advertisers to reach shoppers across its convenience stores, fuel pumps and digital channels in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Kroger has made advertising part of its AI shopping assistant on day one, following the implementation of advertising features on competitors' chatbots.