Future of Retail

By Darko Pavic
November 7, 2026
AI, Future of Retail, Retail Technology

Legal news from Denmark: who presses the final button is accountable

[wpcode id="143619"] A new official interpretation makes the moment of posting—not the intelligence of the software—the critical question for accountability. For retailers and software vendors, it also exposes a missing layer between machine-readable rules...

AI, Future of Retail, POS Compliance, Research and Development, Retail Technology

By Darko Pavic
October 20, 2026

Community Day 2026: More Than a Conference

[wpcode id="143619"] I am still processing everything that happened at Community Day 2026 in Belgrade (https://www.communityday2026.com). Looking back, I think we managed to create exactly what we wanted: an international meeting where people working...

Future of Retail, Leadership & Innovation

By Darko Pavic
August 15, 2026

K-Beauty Is Not a Hype. It Is a Retail System.

[wpcode id="143619"] How Olive Young’s U.S. debut shows what happens when culture, product innovation, social media and physical retail are engineered into one commercial machine. A queue in Pasadena, a signal for global retail...

Fiscalization, Future of Retail

By Darko Pavic
June 30, 2026

Quantum Security Is Coming for Fiscalization

Why France's post-quantum certification signal could become an early warning for POS vendors, fiscal middleware providers and retailers operating in regulated markets. There is no evidence today that French POS certification directly requires post-quantum...

Future of Retail

By Darko Pavic
June 22, 2026

The Physical Store Is Not Dying, It Is Being Reinvented

Why the future of retail belongs to stores that communicate, learn and create experiences customers choose to remember. Physical retail is becoming more than a place of transaction: examples in the supplied source material...

AI, Future of Retail, Retail Technology

By Darko Pavic
April 18, 2026

Retail’s New Front Door Is AI

For years, retailers treated AI as a tool for efficiency. Adobe’s latest traffic analysis suggests that this is now too small a view. The bigger change is happening at the very start of the...

E-Invoicing & Tax Technology, Fiscalization, Future of Retail, POS Compliance, Retail Technology

By Darko Pavic
April 17, 2026

A Silent EU Rule Change Could Hit Every Webshop in Europe on 19 June 2026

The post-purchase change many webshops still underestimate — and what retailers and solution vendors should do now The next major e-commerce compliance change in Europe will not start on the product page. It will...

Future of Retail, Leadership & Innovation

By Darko Pavic
April 8, 2026

I Thought Shein Was the Real Fast Fashion Company. Then I Researched the Topic.

Here is a blog post in the tone you asked for: I Thought Shein Was the Real Fast Fashion Company. Then I Researched the Topic. A recent German article about Amancio Ortega’s 90th birthday...

Fiscalization, Future of Retail, POS Compliance, Retail Technology

By Darko Pavic
March 12, 2026

Fiscal Middleware Isn’t Just Middleware. It’s System Software.

Why the fiscalization layer belongs in the same technical family as device drivers, runtimes, and operating environments. In retail technology, words travel fast and get simplified on the way. One of those words is...

Fiscalization, Future of Retail, Retail Technology

By Darko Pavic
March 4, 2026

Why Pricing Fiscalization “Per POS” Doesn’t Make Sense. In 2026, What Even Is a POS?

Many retailers and POS software vendors ask us: “Can we pay a fixed monthly fee per POS instead of per transaction?” I understand the request. Fixed fees feel predictable. But for fiscalization, pricing “per...