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All Ahold Delhaize USA supermarket chains — Stop & Shop, Giant Food, Giant/Martin’s, Food Lion and Hannaford — now provide 30-minute delivery of convenience-oriented products via Instacart.

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Masters of Meat Smokey Bones has partnered with Personica, a marketing and analytics platform for restaurants, to launch a new, more robust Smokey Bones rewards program.

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As part of efforts to accelerate a digital-centric strategy, CVS Health is teaming with Microsoft and will be tapping into its cloud computing and artificial intelligence technologies, the company announced this week.

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Hot Topic has partnered with Signifyd to revamp its online order approval process and reduce false declines. The retailer’s recent ecommerce growth has been hampered by its manual fraud review process, which was time-consuming and resulted in too many mistaken rejections of legitimate orders.

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The New England-area company partnered with Paytronix Systems Inc. to launch Yatco Rewards. Paytronix will provide the program with loyalty, a branded mobile app, and, for three of the Yatco stores, order and delivery.

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Mike Maresca, Global CTO for Walgreens Boots Alliance, talks about what keeps him up at night and why building internal and external partnerships is key for digital transformation success.

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Online shopping has the potential to enhance the WIC shopping experience. Learn how Walmart will help move the technology along.

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Woolworths South Africa, has completed an overhaul of its store Point of Sale system with global unified commerce platform provider, Flooid, to support long-term technology plans. During the past 24-months, Woolworths SA has fully implemented new commerce systems, including point-of-sale, as well as, future digital enablement initiatives to improve the customer shopping experience and store efficiency across some 396 store locations and 5000+ lanes.

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The Southeastern regional department store chain is partnering with buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform Afterpay to give customers the opportunity to have flexible payment options when shopping, both in-store and online.

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Using Freshdesk and Freshdesk Contact Center, 7-Eleven automates and more quickly resolves queries to deliver the same in-store conveniences to their regular customers and online shoppers.

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To improve early treatment of hearing loss, Giant Eagle Inc. has partnered with InnerScope Hearing Technologies Inc. on deploying the latter company's automated self-check hearing screening kiosk in select supermarkets in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

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JFKIAT, the operator of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, has teamed with SSP America and Zippin to launch a contactless, frictionless retail concept leveraging artificial intelligence technology, the first of Zippin's locations in an air terminal, according to a press release.

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Schnuck Markets is serving up cash-back offers to customers at its 110 stores in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana through the GetUpside mobile app.

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Foodservice remains one of the most critical ingredients in a convenience store operator’s success, especially in the face of the current challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the labor crisis, and supply chain breakdowns.

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Walmart is partnering with commerce technology firm Payoneer to power three types of working capital solutions for Walmart.com’s third-party sellers.

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With its recent digital initiatives, it seems that Chipotle is setting itself up to be the Uber of food commerce.

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Gift cards are shaping up to be a holiday hero this season, as consumers and retailers continue to grapple with supply and shipping issues.

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Clickatell, a leader in mobile communications and chat commerce, has been selected by African retailer Pick n Pay, to manage their WhatsApp customer communication channel.

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The PGA of America today announced a strategic partnership agreement with Legends, a global premium experiences company specializing in data-intelligence fueled holistic solutions for sports and entertainment organizations and venues.

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Asda is testing out new technology which aims to make it easier for blind and partially sighted customers to navigate their way around its Stevenage store.

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Big Lots, Inc. has added several new pay options to its online shopping experience and made thousands of new products available online in time for shoppers to take advantage of Cyber Week promotions.

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Children’s apparel retailer Carter’s Inc. is emerging from the pandemic a stronger, more profitable, omnichannel enterprise, armed with new point of sale (POS) and RFID capabilities.

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Jernia, a Norwegian omnichannel retailer, will partner with RELEX Solutions, provider of unified retail planning solutions, to optimize and automate their core planning processes and integrate their supply chain management.

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Payments big hitter Adyen has announced the extension of its partnership with fast food brand LEON to include Adyen Giving.

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OFFICE has chosen Infor’s CloudSuite Fashion offering to align multiple business processes within a unified ERP system.

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After a small pilot test, Barburrito, a Mexican restaurant chain with 150 locations in Canada, has decided to roll out a POS system by Givex in all locations.

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Buzz 3D has partnered with Build-A-Bear Workshop to launch Bear Builder 3D Workshop.

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Cloth & Company is working with 3D asset creation and management provider All3D to help even small retailers and designers overcome this challenge through the creation of virtual showrooms using 3D rendering software.

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Discount Tire is acquiring Tire Rack. Discount Tire intends to continue to use the Tire Rack brand name as TireRack.com online, TR Wholesale Solutions in car dealer and wholesale channels, and Tire Rack Mobile Installation in the mobile installation arena.

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Online food delivery platform DoorDash on Monday is introducing “ultra-fast” grocery deliveries in 15 minutes or less beginning with a new DashMart location in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, with more locations and partners coming over the next few months.

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Solace announced today that the EDEKA Group, one of Germany's supermarket companies, has selected Solace's event streaming and management technology to build an event mesh that streams real-time master data across their enterprise – from datacenters to wireless devices on the store floor.

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Giant Food has launched the Ship2Me marketplace on its website, which will add tens of thousands of new items that expand Giant’s online selection beyond traditional grocery.

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Klarna has announced a partnership with Harrods, offering customers buy now, pay later options throughout the retailer’s Knightsbridge store, H beauty locations in Essex (Lakeside) and Milton Keynes, and Harrods.com.

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WalkOut, which has developed an autonomous checkout solution, has announced a deal with Machsanei Hashuk, a supermarket chain based in Israel.

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Medallia Zingle’s intelligent messaging platform will help Outrigger Hotels and Resorts improve communication, increase efficiency, and deliver the best possible guest experience.

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IDeaS, a SAS company, announced today its expanded partnership with Millennium and Copthorne Hotels. Following a thorough market evaluation and piloting phase, the global hotel group will transition to IDeaS G3 Revenue Management System (RMS) at over 40 properties across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

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Party City began using AI-powered copywriting platform Phrasee to increase the engagement and open rates of its customer email campaigns earlier in 2021.

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A division of footwear retailer Genesco, Johnston & Murphy is deploying the Yoobic all-in-one digital workplace platform across its 168 company-owned retail locations.

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C.L. Thomas Inc., owner and operator of the Speedy Stop chain of gasoline and convenience stores in southcentral and eastern Texas, has partnered with DailyPay, a provider of on-demand pay, a benefit that allows employees to receive instant access to their earnings.

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The high-tech center will include human associates, artificial intelligence (AI) software, and automated robots working together to ship orders to customers as efficiently as possible. The new fulfillment center will mark the retailer’s first high-tech facility in the state of Tennessee.

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