Retail’s Reality Check

Gala Foods is upgrading its online shopping experience with eGrowcery, developer of a retail food industry e-commerce platform for grocers.

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A restaurant in Brandon, Fla., is testing drone delivery and anticipates growing its delivery radius from 1.2 miles to 2 miles “soon.”

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Online ordering technology provider, Hungrrr, which is part of Snappy Group, has announced a partnership with German Doner Kebab (GDK).

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It's an approach that will appeal to anyone looking to make an example out of every person who tries to steal (Walmart and Target take note).

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Checkout technology company, Bolt, has launched with Saks OFF 5TH, Shinola, Filson, Lafayette 148, and Toys“R”Us.

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Amazon is now offering Weis Markets same-day grocery delivery in additional cities across New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland so customers can get fresh groceries delivered right to their door.

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Retailers are continuing to invest in retail technology to modernize their enterprises as they look to enhance consumer experience, bolster supply chain visibility, reduce waste, and become more data-driven.

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As grocery retailers look for ways to make their curbside pickup businesses more profitable, membership warehouse club chain BJ’s Wholesale Club is using robots to drive margins by lowering labor costs.

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Standard AI, a startup working with customers including Circle K and Compass Group, has announced the extension of its Vision platform.

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"Nestlé has chosen Dynamics 365 as the preferred platform for agile and speedy business system requests for M&A activities." Denis Kapetanovic: Head of IT Nestlé M&A

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Target is running a restricted pilot of self-checkout in order to determine if the approach can help shorten customer wait times at full-service cashier lines.

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Grocery technology provider Afresh is rolling out its platform to more than 2,200 Albertsons meat and seafood departments following a pilot program, as retailers turn to fresh-food assortments to differentiate from online channels.

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Nayax Ltd. has teamed with Nuvei Corp. a Canadian fintech company, to enable Circle K and Couche-Tard to accept cashless payments at their electric vehicle charging points in Canada.

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Pandora is deploying the AI-based o9 Solutions Digital Brain solution for integrated business planning to support a large-scale digital transformation.

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Baseball apparel brand Pitchers Only has chosen Inventory Planner to replace its spreadsheet-based approach to demand forecasting.

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When Uncle Julio’s, the popular Tex-Mex restaurant chain, was ready to implement a new pay-at-table solution, they found both efficiency and access to real-time data and customer feedback with OneDine, a SaaS platform providing on-demand guest commerce for the restaurant and hospitality industry,

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VAI Resort is gearing up to open its doors in 2024 with the support of Oracle Cloud.

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The parent company of Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman is opening a new full-scale fulfillment center in North Las Vegas, Nev. The facility leverages leading-edge material handling equipment technology to enhance the company’s fulfillment operations, including reducing delivery windows from five to seven days down to two to three days.

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HanesBrands is elevating its workforce processes by tapping into a platform that enhances productivity, connectivity, and efficiency for its associates across the enterprise.

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Walmart will have seven automated market fulfillment centers up and running by Thanksgiving. The centers, which are located within Walmart stores, stock thousands of the most sought-after items.

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Save Mart, Lucky and FoodMaxx shoppers in California and Nevada can now opt for grocery delivery in under an hour thanks to The Save Mart Companies’ new partnership with DoorDash.

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The retailer partnered with tech startup Obsess, which has helped brands like Ralph Lauren, Alo, Prada Beauty, Coach and many more to develop virtual shopping experiences.

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NuORDER by Lightspeed has partnered with Australia's leading department store, David Jones, to digitise its merchandising and buying process.

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By automating demand planning models, Domino’s Pizza optimized its forecasting by tapping into Demand Planning in Dynamics 365 and its game-changing capabilities of AI, automation, and analytics.

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Tesco is trialing scan-free self-checkouts at one of its west London stores in a bid to provide a more “seamless and convenient” shopping experience.

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Wing is bullish on the potential of drone delivery for retailers in general and for its test partnership with Walmart in particular.

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Conversations continue around how artificial intelligence (AI) will change the future of work. To learn how business leaders believe the technology will impact their company, in November, ResumeBuilder surveyed 750 business leaders at companies that currently or plan to use AI in 2024.

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Rutter’s combined Paytronix Online Ordering with loyalty to build a digital guest engagement program. With one of the largest menus in the industry, digital channels offered the best opportunity for growth, according to Paytronix.

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The latest step in Unilever’s new corporate strategy includes the opening of its first global artificial intelligence lab, where it intends to hasten the tech’s use across a range of functions.

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24Seven was originally looking for a new point of sale (POS) system that would reduce costs, enhance the user experience, and delight customers. An extensive search led to demonstrations of nine different solutions. The clear winner was Microsoft Dynamics 365.

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Felleskjøpet – a RELEX customer since 2019 – has deployed the RELEX Store mobile solution across their 97 stores, which drives store-level exception-based order review and allows for seamless interaction between staff and their Head office colleagues.

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Up until now, most of the conversation and innovation around drive-thru technology has been focused on AI voice assistants, which can help to take orders in the drive-thru lane and alleviate some labor pressures in the process.

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Walmart is working with Bamboo Rose to develop and implement an enterprise sourcing platform (ESP) designed to bring together disparate systems and improve efficiencies with the retailer’s tens of thousands of suppliers around the world.

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Wingstop, Yum Brands, Sweetgreen and RBI are all trying out proprietary technology solutions from one-off applications to entire operating systems

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Uber Technologies Inc. has formed a new nationwide partnership with Big Lots, making the latter the first home discount retailer to have its selection available on the Uber Eats app.

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The company leverages RFID and QR codes with Avery Dennison solutions to offer traceability of ingredients, live tracking of production, and a guarantee of brand authenticity.

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Throughout the holiday season, visitors to Macy’s Herald Square flagship will have the chance to virtually become Disney Princesses through the AR Mirror from AR tech company Zero10.

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NorgesGruppen, has chosen Manhattan Active Warehouse Management to meet the expanding delivery expectations for customers of its premium supermarket brand, MENY.

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