Top Things You Missed IN Retail

In the space of less than three years, Amazon has achieved more than 20% of its goal to have 100,000 electric delivery vehicles on the road in the U.S.

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Walmart is expanding its delivery offerings, integrating prescription medications and general merchandise into one streamlined single order for delivery.

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The Coca-Cola Company is launching a new data and insights platform known as Coca-Cola Lens that aims to share consumer behavior and industry trends in a digestible manner.

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As part of a multi-year digital evolution to connect more closely with customers and consumers while growing our brands and operating efficiently, the Tyson Foods Global Technology team is radically improving how customers discover our products and recipes by leveraging the power of generative AI on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Shoppers pondering a new hairstyle can now try styles before committing to curls or a new color. An AI app by Ulta Beauty uses selfies to show near-instant, highly realistic previews of desired hairstyles.

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A parade of new technology captured the imagination of grocers and shoppers this year, with a flurry of AI-powered innovations. Here’s a breakdown of some of the biggest tech stories of the year. Click through the slides to see the top grocery tech from this year for Amazon, Sam's Club and others.

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Best Buy Ads Canada will use its technology to power relevant messages from third-party brands, whose products and services the company does not directly sell itself, on the confirmation page of the Best Buy Canada e-commerce site.

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The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), a retailer serving American soldiers, airmen, guardians and their families, has expanded its partnership with Manhattan Associates to include the solution provider’s AI-powered customer service chatbot.

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CarMax uses advanced technology to improve car images, reviews and details, providing targeted content based on individual customer preferences. It also aggregates information into easily digestible summaries, making the car-buying process more efficient for customers.

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A technology unlock has set the stage for growth on multiple fronts.

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Leveraging AWS's cloud infrastructure and services, Mondelēz aims to achieve greater security, agility, and reliability for its operations including migrating its ERP landscape to SAP RISE powered by AWS.

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KFC’s new Saucy concept features kiosk ordering, drive-thru and a mobile app with 20 points of customization.

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Lowe’s used OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 model for prompt engineering and fine-tuning, resulting in a 60% increase in error detection.

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This holiday season, Walmart’s innovations in data science are enabling its stores to make deliveries to 12 million more households.

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From Unilever using AI-driven molecular chemistry simulations to Instacart enhancing customer engagement through conversational commerce and CarMax automating product descriptions, get real-world examples of the transformative potential of generative AI.

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The company is working with Kinaxis and 4flow to install end-to-end supply chain capabilities that will boost its operational performance, elevate collaboration, and bolster sustainability efforts.

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Sezzle Inc. Sezzle, a leader in the flexible payments industry, is thrilled to announce its partnership with Bealls Inc., the beloved company known for delivering quality, value, and customer loyalty for more than a century through its banners; bealls, Bealls Florida and Home Centric.

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Ecity Electronics, a subsidiary of Albatha Group, has teamed up with Hanshow and Emitt Technologies to bring Nebular Pro electronic shelf labels (ESLs) to its Dubai locations.

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Flybuy, an AI-powered platform that uses mobile location and machine learning to streamline the guest experience, announced its strategic partnership with KFC as part of the brand’s innovative new concept, Saucy by KFC, store focusing on extreme efficiency through technology.

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Schnucks will deploy Cognira’s AI-powered PromoAI solution to transform promotional planning, optimization and analysis at the Midwestern grocer’s 114 stores.

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Best Buy and Target are the latest retailers leaning into AI to help holiday shoppers, using generative AI to help shoppers decide on gift ideas via text conversations in systems like Best Buy's Gift Finder and Target's Bullseye Gift Finder.

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But it’s a marathon, not a sprint — a concept e.l.f. Beauty has spiritedly embraced, consistently capturing Gen Z and Gen Alpha interest through bold and striking marketing activations that resonate.

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In the wine retail industry, where tradition blends with innovation, Full Glass Wine Co. is changing how consumers discover and purchase wine.

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VusionGroup has secured a contract expansion with Walmart to expedite the introduction of its advanced technologies across the US. The solutions will be deployed across Walmart's entire network of 4,600 stores in the US.

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Playa Bowls hopes to modernize its point-of-sale, improve kitchen systems and provide real-time reporting by partnering with Qu, a cloud-based unified commerce solutions provider.

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The beauty giant is releasing a new mobile app experience called GLAMlab Hair Try-On that lets users take a photo, upload a headshot or use a model’s picture to virtually see near-instant, realistic previews of how different hair colors and styles would look. The solution is based on the Nvidia StyleGAN2 generative AI model.

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Veesion has announced a partnership with SPAR International. The company said: "Together, we’re bringing AI powered innovation to licensed SPAR organisations worldwide, redefining the standards of retail security.

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With the opening of its newest restaurant in Udine, Italy-based smashburger chain Smashie is deploying checkout solutions from Diebold Nixdorf.

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Geissler’s Supermarket in Agawam has partnered with popular grocery technology company Instacart to incorporate their new ai-powered shopping carts in all their store locations, including right here in western Mass. To tell us more about this new technology, we stopped by to learn how it works and to see how it’s helping shoppers.

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In 1886, from a small NYC office, David H. McConnell founded Avon, creating a single fragrance (Rose Extract) and recruiting a team of women to be sales representatives. His aim was to give these individuals economic freedom through a move that many looked at as a radical business model at the time, which still stands strong 138 years later.

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Mere months after Marvin Ellison became Lowe’s CEO in 2018, he hired Seemantini Godbole as chief information officer to help revamp the home-improvement retailer’s technologies. “It was kind of shocking how behind we were from a technology perspective,” says Godbole, who took on the additional role of chief digital officer in 2022.

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The bridal and special occasion dress retailer has acquired Love Stories TV, a video-focused digital wedding planning platform, and is introducing a new retail media network called Pearl Media Network.

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Stingray is excited to announce the expansion of its retail media network with the introduction of video advertising across METRO food and pharmacy banners.

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Picadeli, and Digimarc Corporation today announced a strategic partnership aimed at tackling the increasing problem of retail shrink and food fraud in the fresh and prepared foods market.

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Nordic beauty company to incorporate comprehensive supply planning capabilities to support business growth

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Fashion retailer Twinset is seeing big gains from deploying Tealium's customer data platform and partner ecosystem.

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Mondelez International is extending its relationships with AWS to migrate its on-premise SAP systems to SAP RISE on AWS. As part of this, they’re currently migrating workloads from Azure into AWS and moving to a serverless, automated infrastructure.

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Partnership with Upside supports Associated Wholesale Grocers members in Mississippi

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Vyking has announced a partnership with Next, with the retailer launching both its 3D viewer and virtual try-on solutions on its mobile site. As a result, shoppers can now see in 3D and virtually try on over 200 pairs of shoes.

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A brand can’t make it in the 21st century with technology from the 19th, so in 2022, the British footwear brand undertook a massive digital transformation that encompassed everything from its ecommerce sites around the world to the point-of-sale (POS) systems in its 500+stores.

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REWE To Go and Lekkerland SE have launched an autonomous store at Koblenz Central train station, Germany.

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VusionGroup has been selected by The Fresh Market, an American fresh food and specialty grocery chain, to digitalise both signage and inventory management of its physical stores.

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GoTo Foods has been upgrading its loyalty program by encompassing more consumer data to personalize customer experiences.

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Refundid has announced a partnership with Bec + Bridge. The company now has tie ups with over 200+ retailers across Australia, USA, and New Zealand, including Country Road Group, Adore Beauty, Princess Polly, PE Nation, DISSH, and Culture Kings.

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The Loop Restaurant has formed an exclusive partnership with Uber Eats to improve the dining experience by offering a convenient and seamless takeout and delivery service.

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Global-e has been selected by Victoria's Secret to help bolster its e-commerce strategy in key international markets, namely, Canada and leading European markets such as Germany and France, with better insights, customer experience, logistics and flexibility.

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Sheetz Inc. is expanding its partnership with digital payments leader Flexa to give customers the ability to use digital currencies for in-store purchases at all Sheetz locations across the Mid-Atlantic area.

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PUMA has chosen Sitoo to power its stores globally and enable a unified shopping experience to customers worldwide.

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Qu today announced that Playa Bowls has selected Qu’s enterprise platform to modernize its point-of-sale (POS), improve kitchen systems and provide real-time reporting to support its ambitious growth.

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Cilantro Taco Grill has released an online ordering app to elevate customer convenience, streamline franchisee operations and enhance its loyalty program.

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The North Face EMEA revamped the London store space to go beyond traditional shopping in partnership with in-store experiential media provider Mood Media to provide an integrated space that combines realistic virtual simulations of nature with the physical shopping environment.

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