Retail Reality Check

The e-tail giant is rolling out AI shopping guides in its U.S. iOS and Android app and mobile website on more than 100 types of products, including TVs, rugs, dog food, running shoes, headphones and face moisturizers.

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Anand Varadarajan, VP of product technology, worldwide grocery stores, for Amazon, said that the company is offering more formats, options to make what has become a busy grocery space more navigable for shoppers.

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Levi’s developed an RPA Center of Excellence (COE) team that works with different departments to find automation opportunities and scale automation across the business. That group has since evolved into the Business Process Automation (BPA) COE.

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McDonald’s adds Georgia, Kuwait, Qatar, Romania, South Africa to fast food giant’s Orquest partnership.

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Retail247 reports the selection of Origin as the product platform for Orelia, a Brighton-based jewellery brand.

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Transcend Retail Solutions, a Tesco subsidiary led by its Strategy Director Oliver Vogt, is providing the UK supermarket giant’s software and hardware to international grocers, leveraging its vast experience in this space to enable them to fulfil online orders from their own stores.

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The Co-op Media Network (CMN) is set to install 300 new front-of-store digital media screens to boost its retail media offering, taking the total number of screens to over 9,000 across its store estate.

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UK grocery giant, Asda, is working with Virtualstock as it extends its online product range, across multiple categories.

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Third-party sellers on Walmart have access to an artificial intelligence tool designed to streamline the creation of product listings and ads.

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Walmart will leverage proprietary AI, generative AI and retail-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide hyper-personalized customer experiences and improve customer service.

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Ashley Furniture has teamed with Samsung to create The Connected Home Experience, powered by Samsung Smart Things, at a flagship Ashley showroom in Brentwood, Tennessee.

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Dunelm has announced an enhancement to its online shopping experience through a new collaboration with Google Cloud.

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Toronto-based artificial intelligence startup Moselle is gearing up to add new functionalities to its inventory management platform after securing $2.1 million CAD in seed financing.

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Chinese specialty retailer to shift to unified decision-making model with RELEX to better support franchisees and ensure superior customer service across all stores.

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Konnect, an independent Human Resource service provider, and TREW Capital Management, owner of Rubio’s Restaurant Group, today announced a multi-year partnership to offer comprehensive HR services and a learning management platform tailored for the Rubio’s brand.

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Tesco is set to serve customers brand adverts based on their location within its supermarkets as it ramps up its retail media offer.

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The discount giant is investing in a 3-million-sq.-ft. clean energy portfolio developed by Solar Landscape that will put solar panels on the rooftops of 74 commercial buildings in Maryland and Illinois.

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Amazon in its quest for greater efficiency, has developed new systems to shave seconds off each package delivery and to help customers make faster buying choices, even for new product types that they may know little about.

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Amazon is testing adding automated mini warehouses to Whole Foods supermarkets.

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Belk is partnering with retail media platform provider Criteo to launch its retail media arm, the Belk Media Network.

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Building on the Cleveland Browns’ Express Beer concept, the American football club, along with Aramark Sports + Entertainment and Wicket, has collaborated with technology partners Tapin2 and Mashgin on a deployment of Express Access grab and go concessions at Huntington Bank Field.

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Empower Fresh Co. says three new partnerships with Queen's Price Chopper, Ray's Apple Market and Pruett's Foods will bring its produce inventory management and ordering tools to grocery stores across the Kansas City region.

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Bakery business, GAIL’s, is working with talent acquisition technology scale-up inploi. With 150 bakeries across the UK, it currently employs 2,500 people and has implemented inploi’s technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its talent attraction process.

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Hospitality America is investing in its technology infrastructure aimed at revolutionizing business intelligence across its hotel portfolio.

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The global luxury travel retailer aims to optimize their end-to-end value chain using AI and ML capabilities from RELEX.

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The St. Ann, Mo.-based retailer is partnering with automation solutions company Fabric to power the backend of this new fulfillment strategy.

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CVS is closing 900 stores. Rite-Aid is closing 500. Walgreens announced Tuesday it plans to close 1,200 stores, meaning 1 in 7 will disappear.

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The e-tail giant will deploy a new proprietary AI-powered solution called Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval (VAPR) in 1,000 of its Rivian electric delivery vans by early 2025.

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Department store Boscov's is getting ready to push out self-checkout and said the technology is not eplacing store employees.

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The Chipotle Mexican Grill venture fund is backing start-ups in the casual dining and artificial intelligence verticals.

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AMBEST, a member owned, US wide network of independent truck stops and service centres, has worked with Rovertown on a new mobile app designed to enhance the professional driver experience.

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Australia’s womenswear brand Forever New has chosen OneView’s SaaS [software as a service] unified commerce platform to transform its store order fulfilment.

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Primark in has introduced self-checkout machines in its store in the Fishergate Centre, joining a growing number of U.K. locations adopting the technology, according to a Lancashire Post report.

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The quick-service restaurant sector is experiencing a wave of global expansion, with Subway making bold moves to amplify its presence and enhance digital engagement.

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Two companies within the Wakefern supermarket family are now rolling out the Simbe Tally AI and robotics system to capture data from store aisles related to shelf-stock levels, locations and pricing

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Walmart Business is teaming up with Clover, a business management platform for small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from Fiserv, a global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions.

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Walmart Reveals Plan for Scaling Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Augmented Reality and Immersive Commerce Experiences

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Manhattan Associates Inc. today announced that leading women’s fashion retailer, Windsor, has selected Manhattan Active Point of Sale to provide a seamless omnichannel shopping experience to its young, digital-native consumer. Implementation across Windsor’s 300+ store network is underway and set to complete this summer.

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Women’s fashion retailer, Windsor, has selected Manhattan Associate’s Active Point of Sale (PoS) as it looks to provide a seamless omnichannel shopping experience to its young, digital native consumer. Implementation across its 300+ store network is underway.

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After a soft opening and a series of tests, føtex, part of Salling Group, has officially opened an unstaffed føtex Go store in Aarhus, Denmark.

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Aramark Healthcare+ has launched a new store at Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, powered by Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology and located near the main café dining area.

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White Fox Boutique, an Australian fashion brand, has teamed up with Fast Simon to bring AI-powered shopping optimization to all the retailer's online stores, including its latest launch in the U.K.

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For the first time, Amazon has introduced automated technology solutions in all key production areas at the site, with human employees working alongside its robotic systems seamlessly in a way that wasn’t previously possible.

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Chestnut Petroleum Distributors Inc., operator of Chestnut Market, is integrating LottoShield's lottery management system across its convenience store network.

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Ocado’s second customer fulfilment centre (CFC) for Coles Group in Australia has officially opened. This taps a blend of artificial intelligence, robotics and automation to improve the way orders are picked, packed and delivered.

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Early on, Manmade had built its own website and customer retention management (CRM) tools it used. It even had its own text messaging platform through which customers could place orders. Since then, Manmade has switched to ecommerce platform provider Shopify.

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Princess Polly is obviously a fan of artificial intelligence (AI). The fashion retailer is seeing a 66% increase in online sales from Petite-size fashion shoppers and a 61% increase from Tall-size shoppers, and it’s down to AI.

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On Wednesday, Walmart debuted a new set of retail-specific AI models to help power the company’s “Adaptive Retail” era of personalized shopping and customer service. Called Wallaby, the LLMs were trained on decades of Walmart data with company-specific knowledge about customers, employees, Walmart terminology, its corporate values and other brand-specific data.

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