
The Death of “Blast”: The New Rules of SMS Marketing for Retail in 2026
Your phone buzzes during dinner. It’s a text from a shoe store you visited three years ago offering a generic ‘20% OFF’ blast. You don’t click; you immediately block the number. Customers today are not just “mobile-first”; they are “filter-first.” Their phones utilize AI to block spam automatically. Their patience for irrelevant interruptions is zero.…
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