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Firework, a video e-commerce solution, recently signed a partnership agreement with Walmart Connect, a closed loop omnichannel media business of Bentonville, Ark.-based Walmart, with that goal in mind. The collaboration aims to bring livestream and premium shoppable video content to Walmart’s customer experience. The videos are also available to advertisers.

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L’Oréal has deployed grab and go technology from payfree in a pop-up store in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Spectrum Enterprise announced that Preferred Hotels & Resorts has chosen to partner with the company to provide options for comprehensive technology solutions to its portfolio of hotels in the United States.

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Target Drive Up shoppers will now be able to pick up a to-go Starbucks coffee alongside their groceries and household essentials. Since early November, the retailer has added Starbucks with Drive Up options to 240 Target stores.

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As retailers battle inflation and other economic woes, they must identify the places that are worth big bets, and those that require more reserved strategies. Both Walmart and Home Depot have found success in their mobile app technology, among other areas, building out digital experiences that meet the ever-evolving needs of the consumers they serve as well as the staff they employ. 

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Informatica today announced that Burton Snowboards is using Informatica's Master Data Management (MDM) solutions to manage its data as a strategic asset. Burton, a premier snowboarding brand known for its relentless promotion of the sport, designs and manufactures industry-leading products for snowboarding and the snowboard lifestyle.

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Beloved New York City off-price department store Century 21 has partnered with logistics provider Fillogic ahead of its spring 2023 relaunch. The NYC-headquartered Fillogic will support the retailer through ecommerce and store-based fulfillment, reverse logistics and returns, forward-staging of inventory and final-mile delivery.

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Dirty Dough, a Utah-based cookie company founded in 2019, has partnered with Hughes Network Systems, LLC for managed digital signage, according to a press release. The deal includes promotional screens, digital menu boards and employee communication solutions.

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SymphonyAI Retail CPG reports that implementation of its shelf planning and assortment solutions will expand beyond Metro Romania to more than 8,000 Metro and Makro locations in Eastern Europe, including Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia.

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Understanding that the ghost kitchen market is forecasted to reach $71.4 billion by 2027, PepsiCo Foodservice has created a ghost kitchen offering through its Digital Lab service, which melds digital and technology partners with proprietary in-house resources.

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One contributor to AEO’s gains is the firm’s new logistics services subsidiary, Quiet Platforms. By providing operational efficiencies and capacity to AEO as well as helping third-party clients optimize their logistics, Quiet Platforms added two percentage points to AEO’s revenue growth.

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The pizza chain announced Monday that it's deploying more than 100 custom-branded 2023 Chevy Bolt electric cars at franchise and corporate stores in November. Another 700 will be added in the coming months. At this scale, Domino's would have the largest electric vehicle delivery fleet in the U.S. Currently, there are 112 electric cars across the country, but by the end of 2023, there's expected to be roughly 855. 

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Digitization and sustainability: two sides of the same coin. But how can brands balance the two? Petcare, food, and snack company Mars, Inc., has seemingly figured out how to meld the two together as part of its change management journey.  

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STARK Suomi, a chain of heavy building materials distributors in Finland, will partner with RELEX Solutions, provider of unified supply chain and retail planning solutions, to integrate and optimize their demand forecasting and replenishment processes across their 27 stores, 4 distribution centers and central warehouse in Finland.

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As E.l.f. Cosmetics gears up for the holidays, Chief Digital Officer Ekta Chopra said the Gen Z-focused beauty brand has a few tricks up its sleeve, including a bigger emphasis on value amid tough economic times. However, the executive also indicated the end-of-year strategy isn’t differing too much from its usual playbook as E.l.f. tries to stay nimble and continues to prepare for a post-cookie world.  

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Obsess has launched Branded Avatars, technology enabling brands to customise the look and feel and character style of shopper avatars to create branded metaverse experiences on their e-commerce sites.

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DroneUp first partnered with Walmart late last year to offer on-demand delivery at three locations in Arkansas. Since then, Walmart and DroneUp have expanded their partnership to six states (Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Utah, and Virginia) to reach 4 million households.

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The e-commerce arm of Hudson’s Bay Co. is providing a variety of features designed to streamline omnichannel holiday shopping.

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Infor announced that Rosen Hotels & Resorts will partner with Infor to implement key back-of-house hospitality solutions. That includes automating critical business functions like financials, human resources, talent, analytics and workforce management.

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H&M is opening a unique store experience in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that will tap into the latest retail tech and showcase a new “chapter” of fashion, visuals, and experiential events every four to twelve weeks. 

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Earlier this year, Iceland and The Food Warehouse teamed up with global product discovery platform RangeMe. They now have access to more than 800,000 products from over 200,000 suppliers.

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Levi Strauss & Co. is developing a framework to help ensure its technology initiatives meet customer needs and corporate principles.

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10,000 Bitcoin for two Papa John’s pizzas in Florida! Whether you follow the changing exchange rate of Bitcoin or not, it’s clear that the currency has come a long way since that first recorded payment in 2010. In fact, over the past 12 months the Bitcoin blockchain has settled more than $56 trillion worth of transactions.

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The roughly 250-unit sandwich chain has a unique answer to the labor crisis. 

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The home arena of the Nashville Predators professional hockey team is leveraging Amazon technology in a new cashierless convenience store. The store, called “Twice Daily” and located inside Bridgestone Arena, will be the first retail location in a Nashville sports and entertainment venue to feature Amazon’s Just Walk Out frictionless shopping technology andAmazon One palm-based payment solution.

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FatFace is partnering with True Fit to deliver size and fit guidance to digital shoppers. This was implemented on to the company’s site by Astound Commerce, FatFace’s strategic integration partner, as part of its digital transformation journey. 

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Canadian discount store chain, Giant Tiger, has launched a new website and an end to end tech stack replacement.

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To uphold systems through the holiday season, Home Depot — which operates more than 2,300 stores — relies on a combination of manual and automated failover mechanisms, site reliability engineering and scalability.

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UK health and beauty retailer, Superdrug, says it has signed 300 brands to the Superdrug Marketplace, which officially launches today.

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Givex Information Technology Group Ltd. announced today the launch of a digital gift card program for a major U.S.-based luxury retailer in Malaysia and Singapore. This partnership began in late 2021 with physical gift card programs in Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.

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The Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is now home to Amazon's Just Walk Out cashierless payment technology at a new store called The Market by Michelor Ultra. It's the first deployment of the check-out free service in the state, according to a press release. The store also offers Amazon's Amazon One, which is a payment option using palm recogniition.

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Tractor Supply Company announced today a partnership with Klarna, the global leader in the generational shift away from credit cards, to offer customers a flexible payment option with Klarna’s Pay in 4 offering. Through this service, Tractor Supply purchases can be split into four interest-free payments, with the first payment collected upon order confirmation.

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Aldi Nord has announced a partnership with autonomous stores firm Trigo. This builds on a tie up in Utrecht with Aldi Nederland where the pair are working on a checkout-free test store, Aldi Shop & Go.

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Church & Dwight is looking to accelerate its innovation across omnichannel channels by leveraging market insights. The company has partnered with IRI, which recently merged with analytics provider The NPD Group. The solution will allow Church & Dwight to tap into faster decision-making by better understanding how to reach consumers effectively and prioritize activation resources to optimize marketing spend. 

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For the holidays, Bloomingdale’s will introduce what is pitched as a first of its kind multi-brand virtual shopping experience, developed by Emperia.

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Travel-center retailer Pilot Co. is taking its commitment to build an electric-vehicle charging network to a new level with a new agreement with Volvo Group to develop a high-performance charging network open to all battery-electric Class 8 truck brands. This strategic partnership and collaboration with the automobile manufacturer will provide fleets with an electromobility solution, the company said, that enables widespread adoption of medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks.

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Rite Aid Corp. is working to keep pace with increasing shopper interest in online product delivery. The Philadelphia-based drugstore operator is partnering with food ordering and delivering marketplace operator Grubhub to have thousands of its products available for transport to customers’ doorsteps.

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