Retailers in May 2025 focused technology efforts in areas including robotic food service, RFID inventory tracking, and AI assistants for shoppers and employees.
From logistical headache to commercial edge, reverse logistics is fast becoming retail’s most overlooked profit center—and the backbone of a truly circular economy.
RaceTrac Inc. is teaming up with leading fleet expense management and fuel card platform RoadFlex to offer fleet operators across the country enhanced access to competitive fuel pricing, expanded acceptance and powerful spend controls through the RoadFlex platform.
Wayne and Garth had us laughing out loud to their famous skit from Wayne’s World that made it to SNL. That brings back some great memories. But when it comes to the speed and adoption of AI, it’s not a factor of worthiness, but readiness. We’re not ready.
Two prominent digital payment platforms are both releasing new physical payment cards. PayPal is introducing a new physical credit card issued by Synchrony, while Klarna is piloting a physical debit card.
The retailer is shedding light on its technology and AI strategy following the release of its new Retail Rewired Report, and in conjunction with its annual Associates Week, being held June 4-6 in Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Ark.
NCR Atleos Corporation today announced that Morrisons Daily has extended its collaboration with Atleos, providing even more consumers with reliable, secure access to cash through Atleos’ Cashzone Network.
The enhanced search experience will build on the electronics retailer’s e-commerce success, which was a bright spot in an otherwise lackluster quarter.
Epicor commissioned IHL Group to complete an anonymous study of small and medium retail businesses to understand technology plans, technology and operational pain points, and how they view their current operational challenges in hopes of better understanding which technologies are defining their operations for the next several years.
Cotswold Outdoor Group, a British company behind high street brands Cotswold Outdoor, Runners Need and Snow + Rock, has announced the launch of its new retail media network, Cotswold Outdoor Group Media Portal, in partnership with Zitcha.
Luxury brand Longchamp first partnered with Yocuda in 2021 with the latter's digital receipts being rolled out across 135 of the former's stores in 23 countries worldwide, replacing the traditional PDF receipts.
Irish DIY, home and garden retailer, Woodie's, has partnered with Virtualstock with the aim of scaling its online product offering and delivering a richer customer experience.
Trust Retail reports a collaboration with East of England Co-op at its new Ipswich train station store. This opened yesterday and represents a cashless first for the retailer.
The relationship, which began in 2017 with the roll-out of Toshiba’s Point of Sale hardware solutions across Matalan’s store estate, now sees the latter become the first retailer in the United Kingdom to implement the former’s VisualStore Commerce Platform.
Pret-A-Manger is leveraging the FreedomPay payment acceptance solution in the U.S., U.K. and Hong Kong. The retailer plans further deployments of the system in Europe later in 2025.
Kurt Geiger is now live on the NewStore Omnichannel unified commerce platform across more than 70 owned stores, outlets, and airport locations in the U.S. and U.K.
The beauty giant, a subsidiary of global retail conglomerate LVMH, is leveraging the recently expanded NielsenIQ omnishopper and digital purchases solution capabilities to gain access to NielsenIQ’s beauty panel of 250,000 consumers.
Peter Tyson reports a 53% year-on-year revenue uplift after an omnichannel revamp with e-commerce partner Visualsoft. What began as a simple affiliate migration grew into a wide ranging transformation across paid search, SEO, email, social and CRO.
In collaboration with Asset Recharge Center (ARC), Walmart Canada is introducing smart lockers designed to support and enable its associates to better serve customers in its more than 400 stores nationwide.
This week, Radisson announced the launch of a new online platform that allows guests and local diners to browse and reserve tables across its global portfolio of 1,900 restaurants—directly on RadissonHotels.com.
Starting Thursday, May 29, 2025, the Amazon Prime paid subscription service is available in Colombia with a dedicated local membership for $6 a month or $40 annually (a 45% saving compared to the monthly plan).
Camco has selected RELEX Solutions, provider of unified supply chain and retail planning solutions, to implement the RELEX demand, supply, and inventory planning solutions.
Jason Gowans, chief digital and technology officer, Levi Strauss & Co. cited several specific digital commerce solutions it has developed, including a new search tool, high-quality content images, and more videos on product pages designed to create a dynamic online shopping experience and showcase items as they look in real life.
Experimentation with ingredients such as ghost peppers and Calabrian chiles requires more than just gut feeling. The company is using big data and social listening to identify the latest in food trends, Lisa Selk, SVP of Hormel’s center of excellence, Brand Fuel, tells CGT.
Charles Heidsieck Champagne Company is adopting RFID technology to benefit not only complete traceability of its bottles from its production site to the points of sale, but better monitoring of its distribution channels.
Warby Parker is using AI to bring its in-store experience online with the introduction of Advisor, an AI tool for its iOS app that gives personalized recommendations to help customers pick frames, the company announced on Tuesday.
Walmart shoppers are losing their minds after learning that the store’s budget-friendly Great Value items come equipped with invisible barcodes — a secret hiding in plain sight since 2019.
The discount giant has unveiled a new skills translator tool specifically designed to let veterans upload their resumes, which are then translated into professional skills that align with its needs, such as logistics planning, GPS routing and inventory control.
The Canadian subsidiary of a major home goods retailer is partnering with a flexible omnichannel payment platform.
Approved shoppers at Williams-Sonoma Canada banners can now split their purchases into monthly payments with Affirm.
Sweden-based GLOWiD, a provider of Korean products as well as skincare inspired cosmetics, says that a partnership with delivery platform, nShift, has enabled it to optimise its warehouse operations. This has reduced shipping errors and saved thousands of euros through efficiency gains.
The discount giant is making a cohesive effort to integrate agentic AI into its enterprise. Agentic AI builds upon the prescriptive capabilities of generative AI to streamline enterprise workflows even further.
SuperValu, a Musgrave Group owned supermarket chain that operates throughout Ireland, has been testing out Simbe’s Tally in-store shelf scanning robot.