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Walmart is partnering with health tech startup Soda Health Inc. to launch the Walmart Everyday Health Signals program to eligible Medicare Advantage and Medicaid members who opt in.

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According to IHL Group, overstock costs retail businesses $562 billion. These warehouses filled with surplus products aren’t just storage liabilities — they represent a potential gold mine of untapped revenue, waiting to be channeled back into the circular economy.

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Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM), the retail media business of Kroger, is leveraging technology from Barrows Connected Stores to let participating brands deliver animated content in the store.

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CarGurus today announced the release of its AI-powered search experience. This innovation delivers a more personalized and intuitive car shopping experience, embedded directly into the CarGurus website.

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A global French retail giant is testing a store platform that includes computer vision and electronic shelf labels. French retail conglomerate Carrefour S.A. Group is piloting the VusionGroup EdgeSense store technology platform in a hypermarket in Villabé, France.

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A grocery technology company and a beauty brand popular with Gen Z are both integrating different parts of their operations with a visual-oriented social platform.

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The new platform is integrated into McDonald’s digital ecosystem, including its mobile app. A notification prompts customer feedback — from food quality to service efficiency — about an hour following an order. Once submitted, responses are analyzed using tools that sort feedback by relevance and urgency.

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After some testing last year, Amazon has released an AI-powered video generator to U.S. advertisers. Available on the Amazon Ads console, the video creating software produces six unique videos based solely on a product’s ID.

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Monoprix, a French retail chain and part of the Casino Group, has selected RELEX Solutions and Accenture as it looks to transform the planning and replenishment of its textile, home, and leisure categories.

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H&M is betting on upgrading a slimmed-down store network to regain ground lost to rivals that sell purely online, and hopes artificial intelligence will smooth out the integration of its digital operations with its physical footprint.

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The Pittsburgh-based regional grocer has implemented the Manhattan Associates Active Warehouse Management solution at its largest supply chain facility, a more than one-million-square-foot hub in Bedford Heights, Ohio.

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The move extends Newell’s broader adoption of Adobe’s enterprise tools, including Workfront for project management and Experience Manager for digital asset governance.

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A baby clothing brand taps Birdseye to drive customer engagement as well as optimize inventory turnover.

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Voyado has secured backing from investment firm Viking, in a deal that puts its valuation at SEK 3.5 billion (approximately £260 million). This makes Viking its new majority shareholder.

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Sainsbury’s loyalty, insights and retail media business, Nectar360, has announced the upcoming launch of a new unified retail media platform: Nectar360 Pollen. Designed to solve for the industry’s biggest pain points and to support Nectar360’s mission to create valuable relationships between customers and their favourite brands.

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Sitoo has announced a partnership with Sunkost. In a LinkedIn post, it said: "Sunkost is Norway’s largest health chain who believe healthier people are happier people. And happier people make for a happier world.”

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Deploying THG Commerce’s end-to-end solution, THG Fulfil, HYROX will receive support across e-commerce, marketing, and fulfilment.

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In the Just Salad mobile app, users can navigate to the Salad AI section, complete a short preference survey, and instantly receive personalized order recommendations based on their flavor profile.

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David’s Bridal is unifying e-commerce and brick-and-mortar operations in partnership with Shopify.

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The fashion retailer faced the challenge of fragmented customer data spread across multiple touchpoints, including web, mobile, and social media. Without a unified view of customer behaviour, marketing campaigns lacked precision, driving up acquisition costs while limiting customer retention.

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MFG, the UK’s largest independent forecourt operator, says that adding parcel lockers makes practical and commercial sense, as the company invests in its 1,200 service area

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Nestlé, LVMH and L’Oréal are launching AI-powered digital twins that will help the companies produce marketing content at scale.

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Lowes extends its branding and thoughtfulness across other tech activations. “We’re making sure that we are leading technology decisions with strategy.

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Bikky, a customer data platform built exclusively for multi-unit restaurants, announced its partnership with Tiki Taco, a fast-growing, neighborhood taco joint.

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Sedano’s Supermarkets, the largest Hispanic retailer in the U.S., has selected RELEX Solutions to unify pricing and promotions across their supermarkets in Florida.

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Mattel is looking to optimize its business operations, using advanced artificial intelligence capabilities to enhance product development and creative ideation, drive innovation and deepen consumer engagement.

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In its never-ending quest to get products to customers more quickly, Amazon has deployed three AI-powered innovations designed to speed up and streamline fulfillment and delivery processes.

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Large retailers are finally embracing cryptocurrencies as they become a more mainstream method of financial transfers. So much so, even Walmart and Amazon are reportedly exploring options to create their own U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins for consumers.

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Buddy’s bar-b-q, East Tennessee’s hometown favorite known for its Hickory-smoked meats and Southern hospitality, continues to grow its off-premises sales through a long-standing partnership with ezCater.

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AllSaints has gone live with Dixa's CX platform.

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The grocery conglomerate’s Albertsons Media Collective retail media arm is partnering with shopper engagement solution provider Stratacache to deploy a fleet of digital screens that will support in-store advertising in its stores.

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Global Partners LP is launching a new mobile app and revamped loyalty program, Bee's Knees Benefits, designed to unify and enhance the loyalty and digital experience across its family of brands, including Alltown Fresh, Alltown and ExtraMart.

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A leading sporting goods retailer has landed on a new third-party delivery platform. Over 800 Dick’s Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy locations across the United States will now be available on Uber Eats beginning this week.

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L’Oréal has invested in an AI-powered startup, Noli, that acts as a personal beauty advisor. The “AI Beauty Trust Agent” tool delivers personalized, science-backed recommendations for consumers by drawing on beauty science, clinical skincare, product reviews, and consumer data.

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Amazon is taking a multi-pronged approach to enhance management of delivery processes using artificial intelligence. The online giant is introducing three tools built with advanced AI functionality designed to streamline and improve the accuracy of delivery operations.

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VusionGroup has announced a partnership with Carrefour to trial what is pitched as a new generation of connected stores powered by EdgeSense technology.

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IKI Lithuania, a supermarket chain owned by REWE Group, has launched AI driven age estimation technology in its stores. It worked with StrongPoint, IKI, and Yoti on the project.

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While artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzzword dominating conversations in every industry, The Human Bean is turning talk into action—leveraging AI not just for efficiency, but to elevate the customer experience, support franchisee partners, and infuse brand personality into every touchpoint.

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Qu today announced its partnership with Pokeworks. By selecting Qu as its next-generation point-of-sale (POS) provider, Pokeworks is strategically investing in modernizing its restaurant technology, streamlining operations, and gaining real-time insights to drive future growth.

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By deploying ARC device lockers, Walmart Canada is emphasizing its dedication to equipping its associates with the best tools to do their jobs, according to a press release. The smart lockers will manage and protect handheld devices critical to Walmart Canada store operations.

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Rocket Stores is teaming with Lula Commerce to enhance its digital presence and operational efficiency at more than 600 convenience stores.

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With vision, grit, and a knack for execution, this rising star is reshaping how Dine Brands brings AI innovation to life.

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The launch comes on the heels of a successful pilot with West Coast favorite pizza chain Pizza My Heart, Palona is now working with more than 20 restaurants and brands nationwide including Twenty Five Teishoku House, Kobunga, MOTO Pizza, CaliBBQ, and Pleasure Pizza Santa Cruz, among others.

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Carnival Corporation announced that it has cut unit food waste by 44% since 2019—surpassing its 2025 target of a 40% reduction a full year early. The initiative, dubbed the “Less Left Over” strategy, has saved the cruise company over $250 million in avoided food costs.

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H-E-B is leveraging the Epsilon Retail Media solution to provide new self-service capabilities enabling brands participating in its retail media network to independently activate and manage promoted products campaigns across its website and consumer app.

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Walgreens is providing participants in its retail media network with faster, more transparent access to first-party data and analytics. The pharmacy giant is now partnering with data collaboration platform LiveRamp.

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VusionGroup reports installation of its electronic shelf label (ESL) solution for grocery retailer, IGA, with over 8,500 of these deployed across its French's Forest store, located north of Brisbane, Australia.

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Five Below Inc. has implemented the Invent.ai retail planning suite, an AI-driven platform that automates forecasting and decision-making processes, to help position the right inventory at the right locations, in the right quantities, on a daily basis.

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Beginning today, members of Loblaw Companies’ PC Optimum rewards program can earn five points for every dollar spent on eligible DoorDash orders delivered from their favourite restaurants and Loblaw banner stores.

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The investment is designed to support customer demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, accelerating AI adoption and capability, and the continued modernization of Australian organizations.

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