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Ikea USA has introduced its first ever buy now, pay later (BNPL) programme in partnership with Afterpay.

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Walmart advertisers have a new, direct way to reach out to customers. Walmart Connect is officially introducing sponsored videos, the retail media group’s first onsite video advertising solution.

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Restaurant executive T.J. Schier made a pit stop at a Chick-fil-A in Bryan, Texas, and was taken aback Wednesday morning when he saw a robot named Wall-E zipping around the dining room delivering food to breakfast customers.

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Walgreens is partnering with Pearl Health, a health care provider enablement company, to accelerate the expansion of value-based care in collaboration with community-based primary care physicians.

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Uber Eats has expanded its partnership with The Save Mart Companies to now offer on-demand and scheduled delivery, expanding the availability of the grocer’s private label products.

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Zebra Technologies Corporation announced that Aramtec, a prominent United Arab Emirates (UAE) premium food service distributor, will deploy a Zebra warehouse automation solution to further digitise and enhance its warehouse operations.

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A number of stores are now offering a checkout-free shopping option for apparel and other softlines merchandise with Amazon technology.

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Pacsun is riding the wave of the fast-growing third-party logistics (3PL) market. The lifestyle apparel retailer is putting Cart.com in charge of its lone fulfillment center and chasing the benefits of outsourcing.

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Apparel shopping, particularly for women, too often puts consumers into an emotional minefield — so much so that some female shoppers don’t even feel comfortable sharing their clothing sizes with sales associates.

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Ingram Content Group (“Ingram”), a global book distributor and wholesaler, announced the expansion of their usage of RELEX Solutions, provider of unified supply chain and retail planning solutions.

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Wakefern Food Corp. has launched live tracking with Delivery Solutions for the delivery of online grocery orders. The cutting-edge tracking technology is available through many ShopRite and The Fresh Grocer locations, with live tracking of home deliveries offered at more than 200 stores.

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The discounter is now offering its Express Delivery service until 10 p.m. on orders placed by 9:30 p.m. at 4,000 stores across the U.S.

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The warehouse club retailer, a division of Walmart Inc., is now providing advertisers participating in its Sam’s Club Member Access Platform (MAP) retail media network access to the Media and Sales Performance Dashboard.

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Hy-Vee is upping the ante in retail media with the launch of Hy-Vee RedMedia, the Midwestern retailer’s own retail media network.

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The app will feature a revamped interface and navigation, making it easier for shoppers to manage coupons via a redesigned wallet feature, explore weekly ads and find products, the discount store chain said in a Friday (Sept. 15) press release. There will also be a redesigned wallet feature.

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Crunch Fitness, a New York City-based global fitness chain, has become the first fitness brand to introduce the Amazon One palm recognition service as an entry option for its members at select locations nationwide.

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Luxury performance trainer brand, Athletic Propulsion Labs (APL), has worked with True Fit to achieve a boost in e-commerce revenue while reducing fit related returns.

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Prisma Peremarket, a well-known Estonian grocery retail brand operated by SOK, has created a smoother shopping experience by expanding their collaboration with RELEX Solutions.

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Pixevia has partnered with IKI, a member of REWE Group, to launch a fifth autonomous store in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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The convenience store operator partnered with Jolt to implement a digital food label content distribution and printing platform across its network.

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UK-based Bare Kind reports that sales jumped from £200,000 to £540,000 last year and are expected to hit £750,000 this year as more retailers stock its eco-friendly animal themed socks which help to support 25 conservation and rescue charities.

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The Very Group has been working with Kyndryl to migrate applications to the public cloud. And the online retailer is now extending the agreement and moving over more applications.

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Several major retailers have released investment news this week, focusing on areas such as inventory management to IT infrastructure. Among the companies making significant changes are Pacsun, Loblaw, Heinen's, Duluth Trading Company, and Denver’s Choice Market.

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DoorDash has announced eight new grocery partners available for on-demand delivery via the DoorDash Marketplace.

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South African retailer Absolute Pets has selected Quant Retail unified space planning technology.

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New Jersey-based ShopRite operator rolls out Focal Systems AI technology to all its stores on the East Coast.

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Duluth Trading Company has implemented the Manhattan Active Warehouse Management platform at its new distribution and fulfillment facility in Adairsville, Ga.

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Jacksons Food Stores is enhancing how it manages the space within its stores using the SaaS-based Blue Yonder category management solution. Blue Yonder partner Plantensive is implementing the technology.

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The automated “Supply Chain” solution will leverage advanced machine learning capabilities to assist sellers in optimizing shipping and delivery.

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The discounter, which launched GoLocal as a hosted white-label, delivery-as-a-service platform to manage last-mile deliveries in 2021, is teaming up with SmartKargo, which works with airlines to enable an alternate delivery network to established carriers.

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Metacask, an online marketplace which allows users to buy, sell and collect spirits via the blockchain, has teamed up with crypto payment processor BitPay.

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WOWorks is partnering with BigZpoon, a provider of food-ingredient-based analysis technology solutions for the restaurant and hospitality industries.

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Certco, Inc., a retail coop serving more than 200 stores in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa, is offering its members and other retail customers an enhanced digital engagement platform from eGrowcery.

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Grocery e-commerce solution provider Mercatus and marketing technology company Swish Brand Experiences (SwishBx) have formed a strategic partnership to advance the value of product sampling for grocery retailers and CPG brands.

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The grocery conglomerate is providing Flash as part of its in-house DriveUp & Go curbside pickup offering and online delivery service. Flash is currently available now at more than 2,000 locations.

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Cradlepoint, reports that Nando’s will be using its E300 routers to provide restaurants with a unified and stable communications platform across all 279 sites in South Africa.

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Amazon.com Inc. is offering a new service that will let its 2 million merchant partners deliver inventory directly to physical retail stores and warehouses, the latest push by the e-commerce giant to expand its logistics network beyond serving online shoppers.

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Hillarys, a retailer of made to measure blinds, curtains, and shutters, has selected IPI’s contact centre-as-a-service (CCaaS) offering, ElasticCX CCaaS, as it transitions away from its incumbent on-premise telephony solution.

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The retailer is utilizing Microsoft Cloud for Retailing technology to analyze anonymized customer data collected by networked, ceiling-mounted cameras equipped with AifFi Refresh technology.

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Recurly, a subscription management and billing platform, has partnered with hotel and lifestyle brand citizenM to enhance its mycitizenM+ guest subscription service.

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The merchandise mix Walmart will carry rests not purely on retail executives' judgment but rather on software it developed around 2019. Its machine-learning algorithm relies on weather patterns and each store's past sales data to predict inventory needs of its more than 4,700 U.S. locations.

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Cart.com has announced a new partnership with Pacsun. This will see the company leverage its logistics expertise and order and inventory management capabilities to support US fulfilment for the brand.

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Bodi.Me, a specialist in sustainable fashion fit technology, has collaborated with uniform and work wear supplier, Incorporatewear, to develop a bespoke fittings solution for Marks and Spencer’s new gender neutral staff uniforms.

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'Marty the Robot’ is taking on new tasks at Stop & Shop. Initially deployed at more than 300 Stop & Shop stores throughout the Northeast by parent company Ahold Delhaize to help detect hazards such as in-aisle spills in 2019, a seven-foot-tall robot model nicknamed “Marty” from Badger Technologies is now being used to conduct additional workflows.

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Canada’s leading food and pharmacy retailer has migrated its SAP systems to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in an effort to modernize its IT infrastructure to more efficiently scale operations.

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