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Wendy’s Co. has struck a deal with India’s Rebel Foods to open about 250 so-called cloud kitchens across the country, one of the most ambitious efforts yet to serve customers through delivery rather than the traditional fast-food stores as the industry adapts to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Co-op has partnered with retail tech startup Gophr to launch a same day delivery service from its 50+ stores in Scotland.

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Sales at Rochester, N.Y.-based DiBella’s Subs are trending even with last year.

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Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores has expanded contactless payment options for transactions inside and outside its locations across the country. The expansion includes tap-and-go credit cards, mobile phone payment options and Mobile Pay from the Love’s Connect app.

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Asos has ramped up its use of augmented reality technology to simulate real-life model photography in response to the Covid- 19 pandemic.

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The Milford, Conn.-based sandwich chain said curbside delivery is available via the Subway app and its website at about 11,000 participating restaurants.

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Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons said yesterday that the new technology, from Turing Video Inc., is being rolled out across the company’s supermarket banners and facilities and will provide a more reliable health-screening process.

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RibCrib saw a difficult road ahead when COVID hit in March. Like many other casual-dining restaurants, it saw many layoffs and an uncertain future as dine-in remained closed across the country for months on end.

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Tops Friendly Markets recently placed limits on some items including toilet paper and household cleaners, thanks to computer-assisted ordering (CAO) and strategic planning with its partners.

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In early 2020, they teamed up with Mobivity, whose unified mobile messaging solution is a part of a broader platform digitally enabling all consumer touchpoints, to run their first RCS Business Messaging campaign. The goal of the campaign was to drive Order Ahead pickup orders through their mobile app.

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A well-timed upgrade helped the brand simplify human capital management at a critical time.

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Corner Bakery guests across the country can now order their favorites for pickup or delivery through Google Search and Maps.

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GameStop, Express and Saks OFF 5TH all have deployed buy now, pay later services. GameStop is partnering with Sezzle, and Express and Saks OFF 5TH are both partnering with Klarna to offer the option to shoppers of paying for their purchases in four equal, interest-free payments.

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In an effort to reduce delivery times, Walmart announced that it will start fulfilling some of its online orders directly from individual stores.

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BluJay Solutions said that Associated Wholesale Grocers has selected BluJay’s Transportation Management for Shippers solution.

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The Beaumanoir Group, a France-based fashion retail enterprise, is deploying Cegid's cloud-based unified commerce platform to enhance omnichannel and POS technology.

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The French group GilClaude – manufacturer of homewear, nightwear and sportswear for well-known multi-category and fashion retailers – has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution.

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When you are a hotel group operating 49 corporate, leisure, and lifestyle hotels across the United Kingdom and Ireland, a pandemic can have a devastating impact on employee communication if digital safeguards are not in place.

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Like many brands dealing with COVID-19, DTC jewelry brand Mejuri was forced to focus intently on its online operations this year. The company decided to invest in technology that would help it harness the power of data to improve its customer insights and the shopper experience.

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Morrisons has entered an unlikely partnership with Next to launch a range of click & collect delivery and return “pods” at its stores.

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Manthan-RichRelevance today announced that Price Chopper Supermarkets and Market 32 have partnered with them to drive intimate, highly personalized customer engagement across the lifecycle.

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In its first co-branded location, Blendid, developer of an autonomous smoothie-making kiosk, will create contactless, customized Jamba by Blendid smoothies. The Jamba by Blendid kiosk makes its debut Dec. 1 at a Walmart location in Dixon, California.

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Zoox Smart Data has successfully deployed its Zoox Media solution across 4,141 Choice Hotels branded hotels along with the Zoox Smart Data platform at 197 properties.

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Germany-based Zalando is running its machine learning workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to reduce time-to-market of new online customer experience features.

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Instacart has teamed up with one of the largest Latino-owned supermarket chains in the U.S. on same-day delivery.

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The Kroger Family of Companies and Ocado today announced the continued expansion of their partnership with plans to construct an additional Customer Fulfillment Center (CFC) in the South region, while also collaborating with Ocado on in-store fulfilment (ISF) capabilities with a planned rollout across Kroger stores, beginning in 2021.

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Redefine Meat unveiled its “alt-steak” plant-based products, with plans to put the products to the test at a limited number of leading chef restaurants. Created using a 3D meat printing technology, the products are said to have the same texture, flavor and appearance of beef steak and can be produced in the volume and cost to enable large-scale market launch.

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Just a few weeks after Ulta's blockbuster deal with Target, Sephora has announced its own new partnership — with department store Kohl's. The deal plans for "at least" 850 Sephora shop-in-shop locations in Kohl's stores by 2023, and will eventually replace its partnership with J.C. Penney.

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With the help of the self-service 3D tech platform from ALL3D, the company created four virtual apartments, complete with furniture and décor, in less than a month’s time.

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For direct-to-consumer retailers, it’s not enough to have the right product at the right time — not unless you want to become a one-hit-wonder cautionary tale.

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7-Eleven Inc.'s new app-based mobile wallet offers all customers—including those who would like to load cash—a contactless way to pay at participating U.S. stores.

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Co-op Group has expanded its relationship with Diebold Nixdorf to include managed services and remote monitoring of self-service and PoS systems throughout the UK.

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WAIR, the AI-driven modern solution for personalized fit, today emerges from stealth, unveils its new size and fit solution, and announces partnerships with Cuts Clothing, Rhone and Superdry.

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Catbird, a New York jewelry designer and retailer, is deploying Loop Commerce's GiftNow to streamline, personalize and enhance the gifting experience.

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Lightspeed POS just announced the acquisition of Upserve, expanding Lightspeed’s presence in the restaurant industry.

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German drugstore chain Müller will partner with RELEX Solutions, provider of unified retail planning solutions, to optimize inventory management for all of its stores using the RELEX forecasting and replenishment software.

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Neiman Marcus today announced a partnership with Affirm that will bring a more flexible and transparent alternative to customers shopping for luxury products.

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The quick-service restaurant chain's Quality Supply Chain Co-op has piloted RFID at one Ohio location and now plans a proof-of-concept to track the technology's use from supplier to warehouse and to restaurant, bringing visibility to the entire supply chain.

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