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With online orders for takeout and deliveries accounting for 70% of its business, Local Pizza Co. in St. Petersburg, Florida, realized an internet outage would be devastating to its bottom line.

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Pandora Jewelry will deploy the Appian Workforce Safety solution to support workplace health and safety across its U.S. operations.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology with diverse applications in several industries, including online gambling.

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UK independent country store, Millbry Hill, has automated post purchase operations using Brightpearl.

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Retail Assist has extended support from first line help desk services, to carry out a full UK store opening for cosmetics retailer Morphe.

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A Northeast regional grocery chain is now accepting payments via electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card for online pickup and delivery orders.

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Casey's General Stores Inc. is deploying Momentive's technology to measure employee feedback, gauge product awareness, gain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior and direction on product launches.

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Like so many other aspects of the robotics world, the pandemic has dramatically accelerated interest in the automated kitchen. After all, the food and restaurant industry was deemed essential amid global shutdowns, but finding kitchen staff proved a problem for many, especially early on when questions remained around COVID’s transmission.

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Checkpoint Systems has announced a new three-year RFID solutions partnership with Dutch fashion retailer Scotch & Soda.

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Fareway Stores now offers online shopping at 126 Fareway Meat & Grocery and Fareway Meat Market locations in a five-state region through Shop.Fareway.com or via the Fareway mobile app.

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Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced a collaboration between the Hyatt Place brand and Gopuff, a go-to platform for consumers’ immediate everyday needs, such as drinks, snacks, over-the-counter medications, home and baby products and more, including alcohol in select markets.

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Stinker and Liquid Barcodes are rolling out the convenience retailer’s latest rewards and gamification loyalty program.

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Studio Moderna, an omnichannel retailer of home and wellness brands across Central and Eastern Europe, has chosen Shippeo to power new parcel track and trace capabilities for customers.

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Walmart is expanding its relationship with a Canadian ghost kitchen operator to the United States.

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JCPenney Chief Information Officer Melissa Pint said the retailer has always seen payments as “a very big part of the retail experience,” aiming to make the consumer experience easy, frictionless and secure.

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Bright Pattern, a provider of AI-powered cloud contact center software, has been deployed by a leading multinational wholesaler.

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National Convenience Distributors (NCD) LLC is partnering with Eco-friendly delivery subscription service Lula to convert its convenience store customers into micro-fulfillment centers, connecting each location with delivery partners such as Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats.

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Earlier this year Walmart renamed its media business Walmart Connect (formerly known as Walmart Media Group). Now the retailer announced it’s expanding its offsite media opportunities at scale by introducing a new demand-side platform offering, Walmart DSP.

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Customers at the Asda Stevenage innovation store can now create a personalised gift card after a new piece of technology launched this month.

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Celerant Technology today announces a new partnership and integration with HLC. HLC is a leading wholesale distributor in the bicycle industry servicing the United States and Canada.

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Giant Eagle Inc. is installing digital TV screens from Mesmerize, an out-of-home media company specializing in patient education at the point of care, at 165 Giant Eagle Pharmacy locations.

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Grubhub is directly integrating the Clover platform, including the Clover online ordering solution, which provides a consolidated view of an entire online ordering operation — from menu updates to order management.

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The Home Depot is prioritizing high-demand categories and chartering ships to build its inventory levels and mitigate the effects of supply chain disruptions, company executives said on the company's Q2 earnings call.

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InPost UK has announced its first commercial real estate partnership with The Derwent Group.

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Paytronix will provide Uno Pizzeria & Grill with a set of its features that includes order and delivery, data insights and loyalty. The Paytronix update will give Uno an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered way to offer guest experiences from order to payment.

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Stellar Lifestyle, a retail management, media and digital advertising solutions provider formerly known as SMRT Commercial, has teamed with Crown Digital, a Singapore based food and beverage technology provider, to deploy robot baristas to 30 MRT stations throughout Singapore by the end of 2022.

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Zoom 1hr Delivery reports its fulfilment of over 100,000 orders for the Co-op.

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Global Partners convenience store brand Alltown Fresh has launched a customer-focused mobile app in collaboration with Paytronix, a digital guest experience platform.

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Amazon is partnering with Affirm for its first ever buy now, pay later option on the e-commerce site.

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Charlestowne’s latest tech investments provide the infrastructure necessary to manage all 50+ hotels from one central hub while strengthening the framework for a number of the company’s core disciplines, including marketing services, revenue management, strategic operations and F&B management.

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Augmented reality (AR) technology provider Nextech AR Solutions Corp. announced on Tuesday (Aug. 31) that it has expanded its partnership with department store chain Kohl’s to include more AR capabilities within the eCommerce segment of the business.

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In line with its growth plan, Krystal Restaurants LLC will leverage SiteZeus' A.I.-powered location intelligence platform to better understand its customers and choose locations with high revenue potential.

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Movado Group Incorporated is a great example of what we've come to love in the post-pandemic market.

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Sephora has unveiled its latest endeavor to help all its customers find their best foundation match, as part of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) commitments. The beauty retailer will relaunch its in-store Sephora Color iQ foundation matching service, featuring new artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

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A digitally native home furnishings brand is renewing its partnership with risk management solutions provider Riskified.

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Wing, a drone company operated by Alphabet, is getting close to the 100,000 item delivery mark in Australia.

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US-based supermarket chain Big Y has partnered with FutureProof Retail to roll-out its new myExpress Checkout Scan & Go service.

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UK garden centre group Blue Diamond has partnered with customer interaction management specialist Critizr.

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Digital guest-experience platform Paytronix has announced that KC Hopps, a Kansas City-based restaurant management group which owns Stroud's, has rolled out a new set of takeout-only establishments.

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Performance jeanswear brand, DUER, today announced the opening of its new flagship store. It will be transformed into a sensory experience complete with DUER's signature Performance Playground and 3-D installations built from eucalyptus, recycled plastic bottles, and wood chips.

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Walmart is revealing more details about its coming ad platform, including an October launch date, and the retailer tells Ad Age that the new ad network is designed to withstand the pending collapse of cookies.

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The integrated service offered by Worldline and Bitcoin Suisse, named WL Crypto Payments, lets merchants accept bitcoin and Ether as a payment option at the point-of-sale (POS) and in e-commerce.

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