Nicole Silberstein

(From left to right) CNBC’s Courtney Reagan talks with Olivier Bron, CEO of Bloomingdale’s; Tony Spring, Chairman and CEO of Macy's Inc.; and Maly Bernstein, CEO of Bluemercury in a keynote address at the NRF Big Show. (Image courtesy National Retail Federation)

One of the core values of Dick Schulze, Founder of Best Buy, was “learning from challenge and change” — a prescient insight from a retail leader in the ’80s who realized even then that in retail, especially in consumer electronics retail, there would be constant change. It’s a tenet that the company’s latest CEO, Corie Barry, kept front of mind as she took the helm in 2019, throughout the upheaval of the pandemic and into today.

Lifestyle retailer DTLR and footwear and apparel chain Shoe Palace — both owned by JD Sports — will deploy mobile POS and inventory orchestration solutions from Jumpmind across their combined 450 stores in the U.S.

Michaels ’ board of directors has established an interim Office of the CEO that will be led by three of the retailer’s existing leaders, as the company continues to search for a replacement for former CEO Ashley Buchanan, who left Michaels earlier this month to lead Kohl’s.

Resale marketplace Rebag has joined the Walmart marketplace, making its selection of luxury goods available on Walmart.

British footwear and accessories label Kurt Geiger has unveiled plans to bring its London verve across the pond in a big way. Following the opening of its first U.S. store, at the Mall at Millenia in Orlando in early 2024, the brand has opened its next three U.S. stores at Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, N.Y., Del Amo in Los Angeles and Fashion Valley in San Diego.

WHSmith North America has partnered with SMG to launch a retail media network centered on its 347 travel-based stores in the U.S. and Canada.

Within hours of taking office, Trump made a number of major moves involving TikTok, tariffs, AI regulation and DEI initiatives.

The parade of Big Tech CEOs through the White House continued on Tuesday as the CEOs of OpenAI and Oracle, joined by the CEO of SoftBank, joined newly inaugurated President Trump to announce the launch of Stargate, a joint venture that will invest at least $500 billion over the next four years in developing AI infrastructure in the U.S.

Walmart Data Ventures — the business unit within Walmart that harnesses the retailer’s vast data resources to offer insights to its suppliers — is launching a new service that will allow brands to get feedback on their products via in-home tests with everyday consumers.