Back-to-School 2026: How to Win the 75% of Shoppers Willing to Switch Brands This Season

The “old retail playbook” is officially obsolete. As we head into the 2026 back-to-school season, AI-driven shopping habits and shifting economic priorities have fundamentally rewritten the consumer journey. To win this year, retailers must move beyond broad-reach digital tactics and anchor their strategies in the precision of real-world behavior. Location data remains the most accurate.

Back-to-School 2026: How to Win the 75% of Shoppers Willing to Switch Brands This Season

May 22, 2026

The “old retail playbook” is officially obsolete. As we head into the 2026 back-to-school season, AI-driven shopping habits and shifting…

How We Test a Conversational API

April 29, 2026

Conversational APIs break most of the evaluation methods that search and recommendation teams have built up over the past two…

From Chaos to Clarity: 5 Complex Questions FSQ Spatial Agent Answers in Minutes

April 15, 2026

When we introduced FSQ Spatial Agent earlier this year, we talked about it as a bridge. On one side, you…

Introducing the Foursquare Ask API

March 10, 2026

The Problem: When Search Systems Don’t Speak Human Place search has always struggled with a fundamental challenge: the gap between…

Introducing FSQ Spatial Agent: Your Geospatial AI Analyst

February 11, 2026

When we launched the FSQ Spatial Product Family last July, we made a deliberate choice to build specialized tools for…

How We Built a Self-Calibrating POI Map from Human Input, Data Agents and AI

December 18, 2025

One year ago, we introduced Foursquare’s new Places Engine, a unique crowdsourcing platform that brought together humans and agents to create…