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The U.S. Sun spoke exclusively with retail expert Greg Buzek, president of retail analyst and market research firm IHL Group, about the price increase.

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The e-tail giant has partnered with TikTok and Pinterest to allow people to shop the adds on those apps to buy products from Amazon — without having to leave the apps.

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As Starbucks’ new CEO, Brian Niccol, the current CEO of Chipotle (CMG), faces a tough road ahead: he must win the favor of both the former CEO Howard Schultz, and the demand of shareholders. Balancing the two has tripped up past leaders, making his task all the more critical.

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Wendy’s Quality Supply Chain Co-op (QSCC), a purchasing cooperative that services more than 6,400 Wendy’s restaurants in the United States and Canada, teamed with Palantir Technologies to accelerate its digital transformation and adoption of artificial intelligence.

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Kroger's implementation of a new artificial intelligence-powered "dynamic pricing" model has sparked controversy, with critics, including U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bob Casey, expressing concerns about potential privacy violations and increased inequality.

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DoorDash is enhancing its DashPass membership benefits with the help of a major streaming service.

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The new feature, which is accessible via the retailer’s ecommerce site and mobile app, is designed to give shoppers to-the-minute tracking details on their order’s progress, including a real-time map view of where a driver is on their delivery route.

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The big-box retailer’s cross border network provides full container load freight service from China to the U.S.

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The convenience store retailer achieved a 225% increase in sales dollars since it added Paytronix Order and Delivery, and a custom mobile app to its preexisting Paytronix-powered loyalty program.

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The hardware co-op, which is celebrating its 100th year in business, is implementing advanced digital shelf label (DSL) technology from VusionGroup across its stores.

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Hugo Boss has unveiled a 3D printing powered facade at its Boss location at İstinyePark Shopping Centre in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Boll & Branch has implemented the Oracle NetSuite enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to advance its brand mission of transforming the way home textiles are sourced, made and purchased.

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Starting with 3D Cloud 360 Spins and 3D Cloud WebAR in 2024, CITY will integrate the full suite of the company’s visualisation tools for furniture over the next six to eight months.

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The nation’s largest rural lifestyle retailer has rolled out the Co-Pilot AI platform from store operations technology provider Quorso in an effort to simplify daily work for store-level and field managers while driving sales, customer service and other key in-store performance indicators.

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Grocery TV will promote prescription savings programs and information about the pharmacy in-store.

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Porto’s Bakery & Café announced today its partnership with Tillster. This collaboration aims to enhance the digital ordering experience for Porto’s guests, further streamlining operations and expanding guest engagement.

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Jacksons Food Stores is partnering with Lula Commerce as it looks to create a smooth online ordering and delivery experience for customers in properties across five US states.

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Slimstock reports that Sally Europe, the UK and Continental Europe operating arm of Sally Beauty, has leveraged its forecasting, replenishment and supply chain optimisation platform, to support a transformation initiative.

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J.P. Morgan Payments announced an expanded relationship with PopID to deploy in-store biometric payments to pilot merchants across the United States.

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Chomps, Flavorman and PriceEasy, among others, also announced new initiatives and partnerships.

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As Yum Brands aims to be a “leading global digital restaurant company,” per CEO David Gibbs, the quick-service restaurant (QSR) giant is tapping its tech acquisitions to create a unified eCommerce ecosystem on which to layer artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to drive sales and productivity.

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Freeosk partners with Place Exchange to enable messaging on existing demand-side platforms

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Convenience-store chain partners with Bounteous x Accolite, PAR Retail to transfrom its rewards program

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Winking Lizard Tavern has partnered with Onosys to elevate its off-premises guest experience.

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Aniai, has announced the deployment of 15 hamburger grill robots across burger chains in South Korea, including the hamburger franchise brand Lotteria (part of Lotte GRS, a food affiliate of Lotte Group).

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Luxury bedding and home décor brand Boll & Branch has deployed a new enterprise resource planning system to help support its growth and improve efficiencies.

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Amazon is continuing an overhaul of its Amazon Fresh stores in the UK, with the reopening of its Aldgate, London location on Monday.

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Superdry has gone live with a new global e-commerce platform in Ireland.

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The department store retailer has expanded an existing partnership with AI-based e-commerce solutions provider Rokt to deliver online shoppers targeted offers from non-endemic advertisers that participate in its retail media network.

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Ocado Retail says it has become the first major supermarket to pilot a new reusable packaging scheme, specially designed for online, in an effort to reduce the use of single-use packaging from customers' weekly shops.

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Kenco, a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, reports that AutoStore, an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), is live at the company’s Jeffersonville, Ind. distribution centre in the USA.

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Cleaning products maker McBride has appointed Paul Boardman as the new programme director for implementing its new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Boardman will be responsible for implementing the SAP S/4 Hana system - a part of McBride’s ongoing transformation journey.

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Jet Food Stores tapped BOHA! Terminal 2 from TransAct Technologies Inc., a global leader in software-driven technology and printing solutions, to streamline operations at all 42 of its locations that offer fresh food.

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Lowe's Companies, Inc. is making new advancements to its media network to deliver a world-class retail media experience with enhanced white glove service for its brand advertisers.

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WK Kellogg Co. has unveiled a half-billion-dollar supply chain modernization plan aimed at hoisting margin growth into double digits by the end of 2026.

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Hugo Boss has gone live with a smart fitting room in its new flagship Boss store in Düsseldorf, Germany, which has around 1,000 square metres of sales space, spread over two floors.

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JD Sports Israel has launched new digital kiosks in its stores.

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Bridgestone Retail Operations is now issuing paperless results of vehicle inspections to customers.

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Pret a Manger has become the latest high street staple to deploy body-worn cameras for some of its staff.

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The retailer is leveraging technology from restaurant solutions provider Olo Inc. in an effort to streamline online ordering and payments.

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