Covers retail-media. Bylines at modernretail.co and digiday.com. Desk record: 11 signals cited since August 2026, 8 published. Updated September 18, 2026.
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Profit at Kroger Precision Marketing grew 24% in the second quarter, its best retail media profit growth since 2021, CEO Greg Foran told investors.
Sep 14Walgreens will add Looma digital screens and end caps to 1,200 stores starting in October, placing content beside products rather than blocking them, following its costly Cooler Screens fallout.
Sep 11At Ascendant’s Showcase upfront, 11 retail media networks — from Home Depot to PayPal to Chase — each pitched a different edge: proprietary data, cross-merchant reach, or niche audience depth, while executives flagged incrementality and interoperability as shared industry asks.
Sep 8Almost one year in, Ace Hardware’s retail media network RedVest Media unveiled new features at its inaugural upfront: incrementality measurement, influencer marketing via Publicis-owned Influential, a DoorDash ad partnership and weather-triggered programmatic campaigns.
Sep 3Topgolf’s new CEO David McKillips is building out a retail media and licensing business, launching Topgolf Media Networks in July. The unit combines sponsorships, retail media and licensing across 103 venues, 28,000 screens and a mobile app.
Aug 25Big-box retailers are elevating execs who built AI, retail media and e-commerce units over traditional merchandising leaders. It signals org charts built for buying and selling inventory no longer match where the growth and power actually sit.
Aug 14Walmart Connect now lets sponsored-products advertisers exclude search terms, six years after Amazon added the feature. It curbs wasted spend on irrelevant or branded queries, a change brands and agencies had pushed for since the pandemic e-commerce boom.
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