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In this survey, we asked 1,500 grocery shoppers about their experiences with the industry's biggest brands. Learn what's...

5 Amazing Tales of Apparel Retail Comebacks

The Secret to Localizing Assortment the Easy (CB4) Way

Retail Bankruptcies of 2019: Lessons Learned from Forever 21, Gymboree, & More

How to Energize Your Retail Workforce

In these interviews, learn how the top women in grocery are tackling challenges in the industy, and what they think are ...

AI in Apparel Retail: From High Tech Gadgetry to Revenue Builder

How American Eagle is Building the Denim Brand of the Future

3 Ways CB4 Helps Grocers Bring Home the Bacon

6 Ways to Enhance Your Retail Hiring and Onboarding Processes

In this article learn how top retail brands are using AI to improve their store walks and ability to discover and correc...

5 Ways Lululemon Dominates the World of Athleisure

7 Tips to Supercharge Your Retail Influencer Strategy

The Secret to Successful Supermarket AI Deployment

3 Reasons CB4 is Tailor-Made for Apparel Retail

In this report, learn what convenience shoppers care most about, and how they rank the top c-store brands according to e...

5 Retailers Using Tech Incubators to Stay Competitive

A Peek Inside Whole Foods’ New C-Store & Takeaways for Grocers

Retailers are Joining the Rental Economy. Who Will End Up on Top?﻿

7-Eleven’s Tech Innovations, and How Other C-Stores Can Keep Up

In this article, learn how CB4 helps operations and IT teams accomplish their shared goals with a minimum requirement of...

Staying on Top: Highlights of Levi’s Tech Infrastructure

Why Machine Learning is the Key to Driving Same-Store Sales

Key Takeaways from CB4’s Interviews with Top Women in Grocery

7 Things Legacy Retailers Should Know About Digital Native Brands

A comprehensive overview of our perspective on the retail industry and into each vertical that we service: fashion, conv...

3 Ways Fashion Retailers are Using AI for Operational Efficiency

How Digital Tech is Changing Human Life (and Retail) as We Know it

7 Ways to Crush it in Convenience Retail in 2019

CB4’s 1st Annual Grocery Store Loyalty Awards

In this article we discuss three obstacles to improving same-store sales and how machine learning helps solve them....

L’Oréal’s Tech Arsenal: How The Legacy Brand Stays On Top

How CB4 Lifts the Burden on Retail IT Teams

5 Partnerships That Could Transform Your Local Walgreens

5 Ways to Attract Retail’s Conscious Consumer

In the survey of over 1,500 shoppers across 90+ stores, you’ll learn: • How apparel categories stack up to meetin...

Five Below: What’s Behind this Discount Retailer’s Success?

3 Types of Data You Need for Killer Clienteling in Fashion Retail

The 7 Most Common Obstacles to Brick-and-Mortar Execution

9 Questions to Ask Before Paying for New Retail Technology

Learn what store managers told us about threats to store execution and what shoppers told us about how these affect thei...

High Impact, Low Ask: How CB4 Creates IT Department Heroes

5 Tech Innovations Responsible for H&M’s Turnaround

3 Grocers Using Tech to Combat Food Waste and Drive Profits

CB4’s 1st Annual Apparel Retail Loyalty Awards

Back to Retail Content In this white paper, CB4 reveals retail’s increasing reliance on part-time associates and s...

How CB4 Mitigates Loss Across Retail Chains

How to Increase Basket Size in Your C-Store

Retailers are Joining the Rental Economy. Who Will End Up on Top?