DoorDash brings delivery robots to U.S.
DoorDash is bringing a pilot its international arm Wolt has been running in Helsinki, Finland with emissions-free Coco Robotics sidewalk delivery robots to Los Angeles and Chicago.
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Retailer Tariffs Survey
Tariffs are driving up costs, creating planning chaos, and threatening margins. If you’re feeling the pressure, you’re not alone—and we’re listening. InventAI is doing a survey of those in the thick of it.. No sales pitch, no strings attached—just a chance to speak up and help shed light on the real toll this is taking. We’ll share the results with everyone who participates. This survey only takes 4 minutes to complete. Thanks for participating!
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Sam’s Club to remove self-checkout machines from all 600 stores in huge shakeup
SELF-CHECKOUT machines will be removed from all 600 of Sam's Club's stores, in a huge shakeup for the chain and the industry at large.
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eBay streamlines mobile listings with 'magical' AI technology
eBay is taking its "magical" seller listing solution that uses AI to analyze, research and extrapolate details about listings from seller-provided data and combining it with a mobile-friendly listing flow in an effort to improve the ease, speed, and quality of listing creation for sellers.
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Snapchat and L’Oreal launch AR powered beauty vending machine at Westfield Shopping Centre
Snapchat has announced a collaboration with L’Oreal’s Colour Protect haircare range, which is now available in a refillable pouch and with a new key ingredient Vitamin Cg.
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Direct from factory online marketplace Temu connects with e-commerce ERP software firm PlentyONE
By integrating PlentyONE’s marketplace ecosystem, sellers on Temu can enhance their operational efficiency from inventory to order processing and unlock new opportunities as they grow internationally.
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Sunoco Brings In-Car Payment Option to Its North America Network
Sunoco LP is launching a strategic partnership to enable the in-car SheevaConnect platform across its network of 5,700-plus retail fuel outlets across North America.
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Woolworths Group taps RELEX Replenishment solution in Australia and NZ stores and DCs
RELEX is to partner with Woolworths Group to implement its Replenishment solution in all distribution centres and 1,400 stores in Australia and New Zealand for the retailer.
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American Airlines ends automatic boarding pass printing at kiosks
American Airlines has disabled the automatic printing of boarding passes at airport check-in kiosks for passengers who have already checked in online or via their mobile app.
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Aptos Customer News: Key Milestones from the First Half of FY2025
Read below for inspiring insights from executives from WSS, WHSmith North America, Buckle, Halfords, Finish Line and Skechers.
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Brandon Blackwood optimizes inventory accuracy
A luxury handbag and accessories brand is ensuring customers receive the correct items with help from a third-party logistics provider (3PL).
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Lids Rolls Out New Format Featuring ‘Build-A-Cap’ Kiosks to First 20 Stores
Customization, personalization and localization are key elements of the new Lids store format, which the retailer rolled out to 20 stores in 16 states this month.
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At C.H. Robinson, Artificial Intelligence Has Now Performed Over 3 Million Shipping Tasks
Today C.H. Robinson announced it has performed over 3 million shipping tasks with its fleet of generative AI agents – proprietary tech tools the global logistics provider has built to automate steps across the lifecycle of a shipment and reduce customers’ speed-to-market from hours to seconds.
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Walmart brings Vizio CTV inventory to advertisers in retail media push
Walmart Connect is rolling out a beta test to offer advertisers direct access to Vizio’s connected TV (CTV) inventory, marking the first major step in aligning Walmart’s retail media ambitions with its acquisition of the TV maker.
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Foot Locker Adds New Customer Data Platform to Enhance Personalization
Foot Locker has selected the Ometria customer data platform (CDP) as the retailer seeks to deepen relationships with customers by delivering more personalized experiences at scale, fueled by the data Foot Locker collects via its customer loyalty program and other sources
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Experiential retail trends
Over the past five years, we’ve seen profound shifts in the way consumers interact with brands, driven by rapid changes in technology, economic shifts and an overall feeling of instability in the world at large.
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Nedap Supports HEMA with RFID Rollout
All HEMA stores in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, and Austria will be live with the RFID solution by mid-2026.
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Kroger must avoid 'design by committee' approach to retail tech as it pilots Simbe and VusionGroup solutions
Kroger does everything by committee when it comes to piloting technology. This is done because no one at the retailer is willing to make a decision that they will have to defend. So says Brittain Ladd, a supply chain consultant and former Amazon executive.
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Schnuck Markets, DoorDash launch on-demand delivery, SNAP/EBT payments
Schnuck Markets, Inc. and the delivery platform have partnered to launch on-demand delivery of groceries and daily essentials.
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Walmart expands same-day delivery reach with geospatial technology
The discount giant is leveraging advanced geospatial technology to divide geographic areas into precise hexagonal grids for the purpose of optimizing delivery zones.
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Blaze Pizza rolls out optimized app, loyalty program
Fast casual pizza chain Blaze Pizza has launched an enhanced app and loyalty program in partnership with Thanx, according to a press release.
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Walmart, Eko cement partnership
Walmart and Eko are expanding their partnership to bring interactive and immersive elements to product pages on Walmart.com.
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Dierbergs and Instacart Launch Same-Day Delivery, Carrot Tags
Dierbergs Markets and Instacart have teamed up to offer same-day delivery in as fast as an hour. The retailer is also rolling out Carrot Tags, the grocery technology company’s electronic shelf label (ESL) software integration, to help Instacart Shoppers easily find ordered items and increase order accuracy.
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Ocado Smart Platform goes live in South Korea as Lotte Mart Zetta grocery app launches
South Korea’s Lotte has launched a new online grocery app, Lotte Mart Zetta, powered by the Ocado Smart Platform. Users across the country can now tap Ocado’s end-to-end solutions, including webshop functionality, AI powered fulfilment software for stores, and last mile routing technology.
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Royal Mail takes on InPost and Amazon by installing parcel lockers at Sainsbury’s stores across UK
Royal Mail lockers are being installed outside Sainsbury's supermarkets across the UK. The first six are ready to go, and plans are afoot to grow this number quickly in the coming weeks and months.
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Donatos Pizza automating phone voice ordering
Donatos Pizza is implementing a new ordering system from Revmo AI that will automate its phone orders. Rollout to all 174 Donatos restaurants across multiple states is expected to be completed by May 2025.
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DFS and inploi team up in bid to improve accessibility in hiring processes
DFS is aiming to make its hiring process more accessible and allow candidates to apply with confidence through an enhanced careers site, developed with UK provider inploi.
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Meijer, H-E-B are among top 5 grocery ecommerce leaders
When it comes to providing a good ecommerce experience for customers, the top-performing grocery retailers succeed by making ordering as intuitive as possible and following through with the right amount of relevant communication.
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Dr. Max teams with VusionGroup for store digitalisation push across Europe
VusionGroup has announced a new roll-out with Dr. Max, a pharmacy chain, to deploy its solutions throughout stores across Europe.
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Blain’s Farm & Fleet Leverages Zebra Workcloud to Optimize Employee Scheduling
To better serve its shoppers, Blain’s invested
in Workcloud Scheduling with the goal of enhancing scheduling, optimizing labor forecasting and delivering a better digital workplace experience for its frontline associates.
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Nedap connects with Dutch retailer HEMA for RFID roll-out at stores in Netherlands, Belgium, France
Nedap is implementing its iD Cloud RFID platform across more than 740 HEMA stores in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. Customers will be able to see exactly how many of their favourite items are available in a store via the app or website. Staff will also be able to track inventory faster and more accurately.
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Rack Room Shoes Maintains 95% Task Completion Rate Amid 4x Volume Increase
Rack Room Shoes, a leading footwear retailer, has modernized its operations by implementing Zebra’s Workcloud Task Management and mobile solutions.
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Alta Cycling Group Selects Cart.com as Its U.S. Fulfillment and Transportation Management Partner
Cart.com today announced that Alta Cycling Group, a premier cycling company that owns the Diamondback, Redline and IZIP bicycle brands, has selected Cart.com as its U.S. fulfillment and transportation management partner.
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Majors Management Updates Its Fuel Supply & Carrier Management Processes
Majors Management LLC is teaming with software partner Gravitate to help transform its fuel supplier and carrier management processes.
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Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Taps AI to Streamline Supply Chain
Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan turns to AI planning platform o9 to boost supply chain efficiency, data use and decision-making across its operations
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Northeast Grocery Ramps Up In-Store Media With Grocery TV Partnership
Through a new partnership with Grocery TV, the food retailer will roll out digital screens in nearly 300 stores across its six-state footprint.
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Zalando snaps up augmented reality specialist DeepAR
The acquisition will help boost the ecommerce giant’s 3D roadmap by producing 3D assets at scale and incorporating 3D experiences throughout the brand’s platform.
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Applebee’s revamps store operations with new POS system
Dine Brands Global Inc., the parent company of Applebee’s as well as the IHOP and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop casual dining banners, is implementing Toast technology at Applebee’s locations nationwide.
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Uber Advertising taps Instacart Carrot Ads solution in US for CPG advertisers on Uber Eats
Uber Advertising is set to leverage Instacart’s Carrot Ads solution in the US to help extend the reach of its Sponsored Items formats to CPG advertisers.
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SheerID teams with Albertsons Companies to provide SNAP recipients with various perks
SheerID has announced a partnership with Albertsons Companies, a food and drug retailer in the United States whose banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, ACME and Shaw's.
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How Kellanova’s Data Clean Room & AI Pilot Helped Develop Real-Time Consumer Personalization
Last year, Kellanova launched a pilot program for its Special K brand that combined clean room, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.
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L’Oreal Partners With Google on Gen AI-Accelerated Content Generation
The company has been using Imagen 3 and Gemini multimodal models within its AI-powered beauty content lab CREAITECH, established last year, to optimize creative ideation and streamline marketing processes.
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Smalls Sliders Partners with Bikky to Boost Guest Insights
Seeking to elevate their data strategy with clear customer profiles and robust segmentation capabilities, the brand reached out to Bikky.
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Crab Place secures network with cloud transformation
An online seafood retailer is taking a proactive approach to enterprise security with a cloud-based infrastructure.
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Croda taps HYPERVSN 3D holographic technology
British speciality chemicals company Croda has worked with HYPERVSN to bring its story to life at an exhibition via 3D technology.
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DoorDash provides quick service partners with AI promotional tools
DoorDash is launching its new AI tools for delivery orders placed through its e-commerce site and app as well as orders placed via its partners’ own digital touchpoints.
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