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Sellers on the secondhand fashion marketplace can now use generative AI to populate product attributes for listings, including category, color and brand.

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Nordic Nest Group will implement promotion evaluation and reporting along with machine learning (ML)-based forecasting to enhance availability, forecast accuracy, and promotion effectiveness complementing the existing RELEX forecasting and replenishment solution already in place.

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Google’s Waymo One autonomous ride-hailing service will expand in three cities in partnership with Uber.

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Walmart is reportedly enhancing its pay-by-bank offering via a partnership with Fiserv.

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Hyatt has chosen the Oracle OPERA Cloud hospitality platform as the property management system (PMS) for its global hotel portfolio.

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Albertsons’ banners stores, including Safeway, Vons, Acme, Shaw’s and Jewel-Osco, are now accepting Synchrony’s CareCredit health and wellness credit card.

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Thanks to its partnership with Verity, Ikea has made progress with drones while its competitors lag.

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KFC is partnering with Giving Kitchen, a nonprofit organization with a goal to create a food service community in which needs are met with compassion and care, to expand the reach of its signature program, The Stability Network.

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PepsiCo is making recycling easier for its employees and consumers. The company is deploying an AI-powered assistant to improve recycling accuracy, guiding users on appropriately disposing of their containers.

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Love's Travel Stops is integrating with the digital payment network of fintech company Relay Payments.

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Loop has debuted a solution to help merchants offset the cost of returns and reverse logistics.

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Cinemark, a global entertainment company, is deploying Adyen's financial technology platform to power enterprise payments across the chain's more than 300 U.S. locations.

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Today, Aptean announced its recent collaboration with Snack Connection B.V., a prominent private label manufacturer of nut blends, seeds and sweet fruits in the Netherlands.

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Electric vehicle, fuel and business expense payment company, Allstar, has been selected by Sainsbury’s as the grocery giant’s first B2B roaming partner for its EV charging service, Smart Charge.

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Troc Vélo, a French second-hand bicycle marketplace, has selected Mangopay to manage payments between its individual users.

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Laithwaites, a direct-to-consumer wine retailer, has chosen nShift as its UK multi-carrier delivery and experience management partner.

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With Voyado, Holzweiler gains a 360-degree view of its customers and can use smart segmentation and automated marketing to create relevant and personalised customer experiences.

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New Seasons Market announced it is now available on the Amazon site for online shopping and same-day delivery.

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Michigan convenience-store chain will be able to integrate automated menus, ring-ups, more

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Piada Italian Street Food is partnering with retail technology provider Sparkfly to transform its guest loyalty program, which is part of Piada One, the digital engagement platform featuring the loyalty program, online ordering and digital gift cards.

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Loop Neighborhood Market is teaming up with Engage3, powered by Dexi, to enhance the execution of its fuel pricing strategy using Engage3's Price Image Management data.

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The company is working with multiple tech partners to streamline its business operations and elevate the consumer shopping experience.

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The collaboration between Vitality Bowls and the automated software service will help streamline online ordering and menu updates across point-of-sale (POS) systems, third-party delivery and other integrated systems.

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A specialty footwear brand has replaced its legacy technology stack with cloud-based omnichannel infrastructure, centered in its stores.

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The Very Group, which operates digital retailers Very and Littlewoods, has today announced the launch of ‘Very Media Group’, a reimagining of its retail media proposition in partnership with SMG, the UK’s leading independent retail media operator.

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HORNBACH Baumarkt has selected Blue Yonder Inventory and Commits Services, part of the company’s Order Management solutions.

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The Range and Wilko’s parent firm CDS Superstores has partnered with THG Fulfil, the delivery solution from the online group’s Ingenuity arm, which will provide fulfilment and courier management services for the chains.

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Small-to-mid-sized businesses and non-profits have a new printing option at Walmart.

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The global athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories brand, which deployed Google Cloud’s data analytics and AI solutions in March 2024 to make its e-commerce experience more efficient, agile and personalized, is now utilizing the Google Cloud Imagen 2 image builder on the Vertex AI platform.

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Lowe’s Cos. Inc. has added a new dimension to its retail media network capabilities, working with technology company Vibenomics to enable it.

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Walmart Marketplace has partnered with TrueCommerce to help Walmart Marketplace sellers optimize their order management and ramp up business growth with one of the fastest-growing e-commerce platforms.

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DoorDash has been utilizing a flexible ERP platform to expand its business.

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Darden Restaurants Inc. has signed a multi-year delivery partnership with Uber Direct to begin with Olive Garden in late 2024, the companies said Thursday.

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Phillips 66 Co. partnered with commerce platform WEX to expand the latter's DriverDash mobile payment app into more than 5,500 Phillips 66, Conoco and 76 brand locations nationwide.

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Richtech Robotics Inc., a Las Vegas-based provider of AI-driven service robots, installing its advanced robotic beverage system, ADAM, at a One Kitchen in a Rockford, Ill., Walmart – the second installation as part of a planned rollout across 240 U.S. One Kitchen locations, and the first one in Illinois.

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Coachtopia, the Coach sub-brand dedicated to circularity in fashion, has partnered with resale marketplace Poshmark and digital ID technology Eon to simplify the resale process of its upcycled products.

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By deploying the company’s suite of tools across 525 shops in 15 international markets, Pret says it is enabling its team to deliver consistently excellent brand experiences while prioritising customer and employee safety at every step of the way.

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IRIS has partnered with Hotel Kimpton De Witt (part of the Lore Group and IHG) to bring a new era of digital guest experiences to life to life with the launch of IRIS's mobile F&B ordering platform in their co-working space, Café Celia.

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Sonny's BBQ recently launched their mobile app and a new, app-exclusive rewards program as a part of their larger brand commitment to meeting the changing needs and priorities of their guests.

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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, a hotel franchisor with 25 brands and 9,200 hotels in more than 95 countries, is using Salesforce Data Cloud to unlock data trapped across multiple systems.

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Mirai is proud to announce the impressive results of its collaboration with Princess Hotels & Resorts on the implementation of Google’s Demand Gen campaigns, significantly enhancing Princess Hotels' performance in the competitive luxury travel market.

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