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The online giant is entering a strategic collaboration with San Francisco-based generative AI developer Anthropic that includes investing up to $4 billion in the company and taking a minority ownership position.

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Leading Swedish chain of builders’ merchants to optimize supply chain forecasting and replenishment processes, ensuring enhanced availability and efficiency for both professional and DIY customers.

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Australian fashion brand, City Beach, is leveraging NewStore technology to design and launch an app, which will debut on iOS and Android in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States in the coming months.

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Free People, a banner of Urban Outfitters Inc., is leverages a platform from Bambuser to offer customers a livestream shopping experience.

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General Motors is enhancing its retail solutions with a new self-dispense option for grocery pickup. The feature from GM’s electric commercial van and logistics subsidiary BrightDrop enables shoppers to retrieve their online orders directly from secure compartments at a store’s curbside pickup area, without the need for associate assistance.

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GK today announced its latest solution, GK Engage, a modern, comprehensive and AI-powered loyalty program for every omnichannel retail touch point. This solution empowers retailers to create highly contextualized and personalized outreach including messaging, discounts and rewards that improve customer lifetime value and enrich a retailer’s competitive differentiation.

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Today Ben Bridge, is using a unique subscription model to solve this inventory paradox and guarantee it has the optimum diamonds in its showcases, in each store, every day of the year.

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As Starbucks rethinks its store concepts with an eye towards the restaurant industry’s digital future, the coffeehouse chain is reportedly opening its first in-airport pickup-only location.

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lue Diamond is the world’s largest almond processor and marketer. To streamline its supply chain, the company implemented SAP’s Transportation Management (TM) and Logistics Business Network (LBN) solutions to complement its SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) solution.

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CEO Tom Krouse points to the restaurant chain’s Innovation Hub as key to its success.

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Giant Eagle Inc.’s recently launched Leap Media Group (Leap), the regional food retailer’s self-built retail media network, has added closed- loop reporting capabilities to help measure the effectiveness of its marketing in a standardized and proprietary way.

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Retail group True Alliance has partnered with global payments platform Adyen to deliver improved customer experiences across 19 brands.

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The supermarket has used data from menus, online cuisine and social media posts to shape its Japanese range

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Ham specialist, Enrique Tomás, has implemented nsign.tv’s digital signage platform in its new model of vending machines that recently launched at Barcelona Airport.

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The industry cloud company Infor has announced a significant development in its partnership with Georgia-Pacific’s Packaging and Cellulose business.

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Gordon Food Service has named Toast Inc., provider of a digital platform built for restaurants, as its preferred point of sale partner for Gordon Food Service Canada.

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Mastercard has launched an in-car payment partnership aimed at Mercedes drivers in Germany. The collaboration will let customers use a fingerprint sensor in their car to make digital payments at more than 3,600 service stations in Germany.

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Chipotle is working with Hyphen, a startup that uses robotics to make up to 180 bowls per hour.

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AI-powered platform TCS OmniStore enables global brands to run unified operations across banners

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shopreme is working with ALDI Nord on a project across several stores in the Netherlands that involves scan and go, self-checkout kiosks and exit terminals.

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Aldi has become the latest supermarket to offer staff body-worn cameras in a bid to deter shoplifters. Chief executive Giles Hurley said the move was being trialled in a handful of the supermarket’s stores as crime rates across its portfolio surged.

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Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. entered into a 10-year, C$380 million strategic partnership with CGI Inc. for managed IT services.

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Harps Food Stores is on a mission to elevate operational efficiency and enhance customer satisfaction. The retailer recently tapped a new partner, joining forces with Upshop to implement its inventory and replenishment optimization solutions.

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Maverik — Adventure's First Stop is now accepting Comdata fleet and fuel card payment options at the forecourt across its network of convenience stores.

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Uber Eats is currently providing or will soon roll out four new customer-facing digital offerings – an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, sales aisle functionality, SNAP/EBT payments, and health benefit payments.

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Scotiabank Arena in Toronto and Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary are spending the fall rolling out Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology allowing some of the venues' stores to offer fans checkout-free shopping — and the Seattle-based e-commerce giant says this is just the beginning.

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Retail space planning specialist CADS has helped Northern Ireland’s largest Spar retailer and wholesaler, Henderson Group, improve its space management process with StoreSpace.

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Chevron Products Co. partnered with technology and solutions provider Vontier Corp. and its subsidiary Invenco by GVR to deploy the microservices platform, the iNFX Electronic Payment Server, at Chevron and Texaco gas stations in the United States.

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The CEOs of two large home improvement retailers, The Home Depot and Lowe’s Cos., shared insights earlier this month into the impact of modernizing their respective company's supply chains.

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Lyreco, the European leader in the distribution of office supplies and business solutions, has selected RELEX Solutions to provide forecasting and replenishment to support their supply chain network.

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Fiserv, Inc., a provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, today announced an expansion of its relationship with Inspire Brands, a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 32,000 restaurants worldwide.

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Panera Bread has added "Crunch Time" (one-swipe) ordering to its app to help busy customers quickly place orders.

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Walmart is introducing a new mobile subscription service that allows users of its mobile app to subscribe to thousands of everyday essential products.

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UPS’s latest effort to prevent ‘porch piracy’ is using artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms that assign delivery addresses a confidence score based on address-specific data, and it is working with retailers including Costco Wholesale.

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El Florido supermarket chain has chosen the Infor WMS (warehouse management system) offering. This will be implemented by Infor partner Cerca Technology, a specialist in technology for supply chains in Latin America.

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The retailer is deploying the Nedap iD Cloud RFID solution across more than 650 stores in Eastern Europe.

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Tracking customer feedback is no small task for any omnichannel retailer, big and small, as consumers have a slew of channels — site feedback buttons, email, chat bots, social media channels and customer call center interactions.

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Canada’s biggest grocer moves on-premises SAP database—touching most parts of its business—to a cloud-based infrastructure.

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RaceTrac is integrating Cobi 18 autonomous floor scrubbers from ICE Cobotics in its Travel Center store locations. Cobi 18 robots are designed to clean 5,000 to 7,000 square feet of floorspace per hour and can be deployed multiple times per day to clean floors.

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WinCo Foods has selected Invafresh to optimize its fresh operations in several departments, beginning with its deli, foodservice and seafood divisions, to reduce shrink, improve in-stocks and provide a fresher experience for customers.

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Customers at all Big Y stores can go through the checkout process faster, thanks to the completion of a new mobile checkout solution. The grocer announced that it has fully deployed myExpress Checkoutsystems at all of its 73 locations.

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At Miraj Cinemas digital payment and cashless options are available, and customers can order at Pop Express kiosks, which are located throughout the multiplex.

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Clorox is one consumer goods company who has signed on to leverage the Sam’s Club retail media platform, MAP, now featuring expanded analytics capabilities with the newly launched Media and Sales Performance Dashboard.

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Upside’s mobile app and partner apps provide a platform for retail partners to reach 30 million potential customers, boosting the business’ chances of tapping into on-the-go demand.

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Quicktext, the world leader in AI and big data in the hotel industry, announces a new partnership with Precise hotels, a German hospitality brand having nineteen selected hotels in four countries (Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland).

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White Castle is expanding its delivery service in partnership with the white label delivery service of Uber.

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