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Retail 2025: 10 AI Trends— An Inflection Point in the GenAI Revolution

Dive into 10 critical AI (artificial intelligence) trends for 2025. Spanning retail media, agentic AI and more, our recommendations help you understand how to harness the power of AI to drive real business results, aligning with the Coresight Research CORE Framework for AI in retail. This research report is made available to non-subscribers through its sponsorship by invent.ai.

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Party City and Big Lots To Close All Stores: What’s the $100 Billion Elephant in the Room?

Two major US retailers, Big Lots and Party City, are closing. Big Lots stated that it will conduct an out-of-business sale following the failure of a deal to sell the company, while Party City plans to close all its stores. We argue that these closures are indicative of an underrecognized pressure on retailers, which we identify as totaling about $100 billion in scale.

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