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# Walmart, Target, Best Buy reshuffle C-suites around AI and retail media
- URL: https://fabric-media.ghost.io/walmart-target-best-buy-reshuffle-c-suites-around-ai-and-retail-media/
- Published: 2026-08-14T13:59:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-22T22:03:08.000Z
- Description: Big-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.
- Author: Fabric.Media Editorial
- Tags: Retail-media, Mitchell Parton

**Why it matters.** Merchandising chiefs at other retailers lose their default claim to the top C-suite seat, as AI, retail media and e-commerce leaders now set the template for who gets promoted.

*Signal from* [*modernretail.co*](https://modernretail.co/?ref=fabric-media.ghost.io) *·* [*Mitchell Parton*](https://fabric-media.ghost.io/tag/by-mitchell-parton/) *·* [*read the original*](https://www.modernretail.co/operations/big-box-briefing-whos-in-whos-out-in-major-retailers-c-suites/?ref=fabric-media.ghost.io)*.*