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The under-16 social media ban is becoming a global policy trend, although its commercial impact on social commerce is more limited and specific than most brands realize.
The Saudi fashion industry is defying the global slowdown. Behind the numbers lies a culturally confident consumer, a heritage revival with commercial logic, and global brands learning to play by Saudi rules.
European retail distress has not been this severe since 2009. The Weil European Distress Index explains why, and what comes next.
The Indian retail real estate market is expanding at a pace that demand is outrunning supply, even as Western counterparts continue to contract. Whether the infrastructure can keep up, well, this is the question.
Argentina’s non-human corporations bill promises companies run entirely by AI, with no humans required. Or does it? The actual legislation tells a different story.
Single-location retail sounds like a limitation. For some retailers, it turned out to be the most defensible department store strategy in the business.
Riyadh, Seoul, Mumbai and São Paulo are the new fashion capitals shifting the industry’s center of gravity. And they are doing it on their own terms.
Operators across the US, Europe, Latin America, and the Gulf reported Q1 2026 grocery retail earnings shaped by three very different forces: revenue earned beyond the shelf, currency swings, and geopolitical stability.
The new EU tax on fast retail lands on Shein, Temu and AliExpress, and on every small sender outside the bloc shipping anything under €150. Whether that adds up to meaningful reform is a different question entirely.
The Altagamma-Bain Monitor 2026 reveals a global luxury market that is stabilizing in numbers but transforming in every other way.
AI adoption in retail is accelerating at a pace that has no precedent. Across every major study published in the last six months, the returns tell a different story.
Ten years after the Brexit vote, the EU-UK trade data proves that political promises never materialized. With Britain's seventh prime minister incoming and single market re-entry back on the table, the Brexit trade impact is finally at the center of the conversation.
Eurostat’s consumer price map is widely referenced and rarely questioned. It is also missing the one major variable that makes it useful for retail: what consumers earn.
The most senior executives in fashion and luxury voted live at the 2026 RLC Fashion Summit in Milan. Several of their answers run counter to what the industry publicly professes to believe.
China's exports rose 14.1% in April 2026, beating forecasts by a wide margin, as AI-driven global demand absorbed the disruption caused by the war in Iran. The trade surplus widened to $84.82 billion. The numbers demand explanation.