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Epicor today announced that Do it Best, a leading international home improvement cooperative, has named Epicor its exclusively endorsed point-of-sale (POS) vendor of choice for its member-owners.

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The pharmacy retailer said it is expanding its effort to address theft and organized retail crime across more than 2,200 stores nationwide in partnership with Alto US, a provider of loss prevention and tech-enabled security services. The Alto solution has been used across approximately 500 Walgreens stores since 2019.

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Alphabet, parent company of Google, is aiming to launch drone delivery this week in the area of Dallas-Fort Worth.

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American Eagle's recent purchase of Quiet Logistics has helped contribute to an approximately 35% reduction in delivery times.

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Australian retailer Coles Liquor has partnered with RELEX Solutions to implement its Living Retail platform across its 931 stores.

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East Asia Pacific to elevate store experience using digital tools to streamline the consumer journey, including installing LED portal entry archways and LED screens for marketing content.

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Careste is ensuring that online shoppers can have the same level of fitting accuracy they get in a brick-and-mortar store.

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Pure Table Top has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution.

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Agilysys, Inc. announced that Hong Kong-based Swire Hotels has activated Agilysys solutions in all its Hong Kong properties and plans to extend these across its entire property portfolio.

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Wakefern Food Corp. has announced a pilot with Simbe Robotics to deploy its business intelligence solution, Tally, at stores.

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As of April 11, 2022, the discount giant is launching the Walmart Circular Connector. The Circular Connector is designed as an online tool to link companies searching for more sustainable packaging options and those that offer them.

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Bojangles is overhauling its enterprise with Sparkfly technology. Leveraging Sparkfly solutions, Bojangles will integrate its POS systems with its offer management platform to connect the entire customer engagement experience.

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The iconic outdoor brand has entered into a partnership with travel-tech startup Cabana to offer vans and gear to rent for adventure enthusiasts.

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Oath Pizza was founded in 2015 and is already undergoing a rebrand. Learn what's behind the brand refresh and how it will affect the company's future.

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NewStore was selected to help Burton provide its store guides (associates) with improved access to inventory, customer, and order data, while gaining a unified view of its business at the corporate level. It took around a year and a half to get the POS and OMS live around the globe, including operations in North America, Europe, and Japan.

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M7 Services announced that the company has been selected to execute the technical aspects of a continued rollout of mobile phone-based digital access solutions at over 1,500 hotels and resorts in the North American market.

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Fast fashion giant Shein will tomorrow open the doors to a London pop-up in partnership with buy now, pay later big hitter Klarna.

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The nation’s largest retailer-owned supermarket cooperative, which operates the ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, The Fresh Grocer, Dearborn Market, Gourmet Garage and Fairway Market banners, is piloting Simbe Robotics autonomous shelf-scanning “Tally” robots.

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SquadLocker, a custom apparel and gear software and fulfillment company, is now the Official Online Retailer of USA Diving powered by Augusta Sportswear Brands.

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Cruise plans to expand the self-driving delivery pilot it has with Walmart in Arizona, the company’s senior government affairs manager said in a recent public meeting with state legislators.

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Whiplash, a nationwide provider of omnichannel fulfillment and logistics services, today announced its multi-year distribution and fulfillment contract with Tuckernuck, an online merchant of updated American classics of clothing for men, women, and kids.

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Asda has debuted a new personal shopper trial at some stores, which will be a team-up with Buymie, the delivery platform, a report says.

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The arena, home to both the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team and Dallas Stars NHL hockey team, is collaborating with hospitality company Levy and its design subsidiary DBK Studio to open a new Market To-Go store on the arena’s terrace level.

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INTELITY announced the launch of a new custom brand mobile app for Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe in Nevada. Powered by the INTELITY platform, the app offers a full suite of guest functionality including mobile check-in and guest messaging. The cloud-based platform also supports GEMS, INTELITY’S staff-facing suite of tools for Hard Rock’s staff.

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More than 50% of adults say they’ve already cut back on dining out and will consider reducing that further if inflation continues to surge, according to the CNBC + Acorns Invest in You survey, conducted by Momentive. The online survey of nearly 4,000 adults was conducted March 23-24.

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The casual-dining restaurant chain is the first retailer to evaluate and test the new Miso Robotics CookRight Coffee robotic coffee monitoring solution. The artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology is designed to monitor key coffee metrics such as volume, temperature and time data, and combine these with predictive analytics to help ensure properly served coffee and more efficient employee performance.

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Southeast fuel/convenience store operator Quality Oil is deploying the Swipeby geofencing-based curbside pickup platform at five select locations of its Quality Mart banner in the Winston-Salem, N.C. market. The deployment is taking place during April 2022.

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Superdrug recently announced the upcoming launch of Superdrug Marketplace for premium and emerging brands.

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Amid an industrywide shortage of truck drivers, the retail giant is raising the average starting salary for first-year drivers in its private fleet from around $88,000 to a range of $95,000 to $110,000, which the company says is nearly double the average long haul driver salary. Drivers who have been with Walmart longer can earn more, based on factors like tenure and location.

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C&S Wholesale Grocers has chosen NielsenIQ Brandbank, a provider of digital product content solutions, as its digital product content partner. This implementation will make NielsenIQ Brandbank content available across all C&S Wholesale business functions and all stores supported by C&S Wholesale.

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ParTech, Inc. today announced that its leading customer loyalty, offers and engagement solution, Punchh, has been selected by CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc. (CKE) – the owner, operator and franchisor of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s –to introduce an upgraded digital loyalty program to all of their stores.

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epay, a business segment of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. has integrated Alipay+ to support in-store cross-border mobile payments via QR and bar codes at the Müller drugstore chain in Europe.

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Instacart has expanded its US partnership with value retailer Grocery Outlet to offer same-day delivery (in as fast as an hour) from nearly 400 stores in California, Oregon, Washington and Pennsylvania.

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Mallozzi excitedly speaks of future innovation at Paris Baguette, from table ordering using a QR code to futuristic image-recognition technology for seamless and contact-less checkout.

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Baseball season began last week, and from the West Coast to the East, stadiums are approaching this year with a fresh focus on the concessions experience. Implementing new contactless digital technologies, they aim to bring the frictionless convenience that consumers are used to in their daily lives into the ballpark.

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US retailer Premier Pet Supply has partnered with logistics technology startup OneRail.

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Primark has unveiled a new website, featuring thousands of products from across its ranges, as well as a fresh design, enhanced navigation and a new feature that allows customers to check stock availability in their local store.

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Qdoba is testing three ghost kitchens, one each in Seattle, Austin and Atlanta, thanks to a partnership with Reef, an operator of mobility, logistics hubs and neighborhood kitchens in the United States and Canada.

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Starship Technologies has launched its robot delivery service for groceries in Finland. The firm has partnered with grocery store chain Alepa, owned by HOK-Elanto Group.

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The Coco Loco Arcade, SeaWorld theme park in San Diego, California has gone cashless, according to a press release.

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Capital Tacos is preparing to expand its reach beyond the borders of the Tampa Bay area and into five markets across the Southeast. Through a recently unveiled partnership with CloudKitchens, a virtual restaurant company, the brand will serve customers in Orlando, Atlanta, Miami, Nashville and Charlotte.

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FABRIC implemented Lectra's solutions to make technology the central part of their operations, empowering designers to grow their brands to the next level thanks to on-demand domestic manufacturing.

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FLO rolled out Invent Analytics’ AI-based retail planning solutions, including Allocation Optimization, Replenishment Optimization, Transfer Optimization, and Markdown Optimization. As a result, leading footwear retailer has reduced out-of-stocks and inventory, lowered fulfillment costs, and improved gross profit.

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For the first time, Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology is live in a Major League Baseball stadium.

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Ask Chris Abbruzzese, VP of Trade Marketing for Bollé Brands, how the company increased year-over-year sales by 456% from January 2020 to January 2021, and the answer will be a somewhat unlikely one: augmented reality (AR).

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The men’s casual and sportswear brand decided to replatform its website to one that improved both customer experience and its developers’ capabilities. It teamed with API platform provider Algolia to implement a search and discovery platform that’s leveraging artificial intelligence to serve relevant content to consumers, as well as automate manual product updates.

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European meal-ordering service Just Eat Takeaway.com is partnering with Albert Heijn, the Netherlands-based flagship division of supermarket operator Ahold, to deliver groceries and convenience products.

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Landed’s AI-based intelligent matching technology is designed to matches candidates to best fit jobs and employers near them.

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When Mainsail Lodging & Development was looking for a technology partner for three of its new-build hotels opening within a few months of each other, they found the solutions, services and end-to-end support they needed from one provider: SONIFI Solutions.

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Merlin Entertainments to ensure guests have the best visit from the theme park to hotel room, the company is using Oracle MICROS Simphony Point-of-Sale (POS) and Oracle Hospitality OPERA Property Management technology.

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Worldline has been chosen by Monoprix to roll-out its omnichannel payment platform across all 700 of the retailer’s stores in 250 towns in France.

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Nextech AR has inked a deal with Bothwell Cheese which uses its tech to place a QR code triggered and floor anchored hologram on the latter’s cheese labels.

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Quality Mart has implemented SWIPEBY, an off-premises platform for curbside, pick-up and delivery, at five convenience stores. The technology platform is used for ordering and in-store pickup.

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The 2021 National League West Division Champion San Francisco Giants have added Oracle MICROS Simphony Cloud Point of Sale (POS) to their roster.

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Ocado-powered e-commerce service extends reach in Ontario, Quebec

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