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The footwear company has teamed with Cloudinary to leverage its Media Experience Platform to automate its entire image management lifecycle and deliver a more engaging, visual-first customer experience.
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Samkaup Selects RELEX Solutions to Provide Space and Assortment Planning
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Samkaup, a grocery retailer in Iceland, will partner with RELEX Solutions, provider of unified retail planning solutions, to automate and unify its space and assortment planning.
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After a six-month deployment across half of Kum & Go's 400 locations, the convenience-store retailer is rolling out CB4's artificial intelligence (AI) for store teams across the chain.
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Church’s Chicken Selects Qu POS as Part of Global Technology Stack Refresh
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Church’s Chicken has selected Qu as its enterprise POS partner, powering omni-channel ordering for approximately 1,000 US-based Church’s Chicken locations.
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With this new agreement, Louvre Hotels Group will benefit from SynXis Central Reservations and its industry-leading reach with connections to almost 900,000 travel agents and nearly 700 online channels across the globe, including hundreds of online travel agencies (OTAs) and metasearch engines.
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Double drive-thru is so last year. Border Foods, a Taco Bell franchisee, is planning a new location in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, with four drive-thru lanes – one for traditional drive-thru and three for pickup.
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LogiNext announced a partnership with AmRest Holdings, a European multi-brand franchise restaurant operator headquartered in Spain.
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Crocs Modernizes Its Global Retail Technology Platform with Aptos and the Cloud
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Aptos today announced that Crocs, Inc. has deployed Aptos’ customer engagement and merchandise management solutions across its global retail enterprise.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. has enhanced its remote-employee learning and personal development offerings to include Udemy for Business, an online, on-demand educational platform, the company said Tuesday.
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Retail Imports Expected to Hit Monthly Records in First Half of 2021
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Following a record year, imports at the largest U.S. retail container ports are expected to set new monthly records from now into the summer as the nation’s economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Coca-Cola bottlers in North America has partnered with Salesforce to digitally transform its contact center and field service operations.
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Ahold Delhaize leverages AutoStore microfulfillment technology
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Ahold Delhaize announced this morning it would open an automated e-commerce fulfillment center (EFC) in Philadelphia with the capability to prepare 15,000 online delivery orders a week for customers of its Giant Direct business.
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Italian menswear brand implements Tulip's solutions in European stores to elevate delivery of customer experiences
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BitPay, a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment provider, announced that U.S. cardholders can add their BitPay Prepaid Mastercard to Apple Wallet, making it more convenient to purchase everyday items using the cryptocurrency payment service.
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Sabre Corporation announced a strategic long-term technology partnership with Louvre Hotels Group.
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Whistle Messaging Selected as Qualified Vendor (QV) for Choice Hotels
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Whistle Messaging Inc. is excited to announce it is now a Choice Hotels Qualified Vendor (QV) for its contactless guest messaging software.
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Skinnydip London taps Nosto online merchandising and A/B testing tech
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Skinnydip London says that it has used Nosto technology to increase average online store visit value by 16% and sales conversions by 15%.
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Working with Adyen will provide Dick’s with a centralized view of transaction data across all channels, which will help them better understand their customers so they can provide personalized experiences.
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JOANN Stores master ship-from-store, pickup-in-store & curbside pickup during a pandemic
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Confronted with a surge in online orders, the nation’s leader in fabric and craft supplies leveraged its stores to keep the fabric flowing. The challenges it mastered provide a roadmap for e-fulfillment in the future.
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Sheetz to manage energy use through artificial intelligence technology
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Sheetz will leverage a state-of-the-art energy intelligence platform to manage its energy spend.
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Charlestowne Hotels Implements ProfitSword and Event Temple Integration
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ProfitSword has announced the implementation of its performance forecasting technology alongside Event Temple's advanced group and event sales management software at Charlestowne Hotels.
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Bayfront Marin House Adds Angie Hospitality to Its Safe Stay Program
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Angie Hospitality by Nomadix announced the Bayfront Marin House's customized Safe Stay program features Angie in-room virtual assistants to create a safer, more digitally connected experience.
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Hotel Companies Turning to Aptech’s Browser Based PVNG Accounting Solution Mid Pandemic
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Aptech has seen a surge in adoption of its browser based PVNG enterprise accounting solution.
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Hotel Effie Sandestin Improves Operations & Enhances Guest Experience
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Agilysys, Inc. announced that the Hotel Effie Sandestin has selected InfoGenesis POS solution, as well as its modern cloud-native SaaS Agilysys Pay Connect secure payment processing product to enhance their guest experience.
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Peapod Digital Labs has launched a micro-fulfillment technology pilot with The Giant Co. in the Philadelphia market. Part of an e-commerce fulfillment center (EFC), the pilot employs a Swisslog solution including AutoStore technology powered by Swisslog’s SynQ software, as well as Peapod Digital Labs’ proprietary manual picking capabilities.
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Little Burgundy today announced its partnership with PayBright. Little Burgundy customers can now shop for their favourite sneakers, boots, sandals, and accessories today, and pay later by selecting PayBright as their preferred payment method at checkout on LittleBurgundy.ca.
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Loop Insights Enters Into First Pure Ecommerce Pilot With Maplin
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Loop Insights Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of a Pilot agreement with Maplin Electronics, the UK’s leading online electronics retailer, to implement Loop’s real-time artificial intelligence analytics platform.
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The Giant Company is joining forces with Brooklyn, New York-based HowGood on an easy-to-use environmental and social-impact rating system for consumers increasingly demanding supply chain transparency from retailers.
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Lidl is launching a WhatsApp Customer Care messaging service offering rapid support for day-to-day queries “for on-the-go shoppers”.
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Peavey Mart Selects Kibo to Enhance Their Omnichannel eCommerce Experience
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Canada’s largest farm and ranch retailer to support their national ecommerce site with new unified commerce platform
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Marks and Spencer taps Go Instore tech for video retail move
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M&S has launched a video chat service for online shoppers, linking them to sofa experts in-store.
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Lovehoney enlists Astound Commerce for e-commerce overhaul
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Online retailer Lovehoney has wrapped a multi-market e-commerce launch, in partnership with Astound Commerce.
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Alex Lee’s Merchants Distributors taps Dematic to automate mixed-case fulfillment
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Grocery wholesaler and retailer Alex Lee has partnered with automation specialist Dematic to deploy a mixed-case fulfillment solution for its Merchants Distributors Inc. (MDI) subsidiary.
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EyeBuyDirect enhances virtual try-on feature, accepts digital payments
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An online prescription eyewear retailer is expanding the ability of customers to use augmented reality (AR) to “see” how different frames look on their face.
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A Canadian department store giant is teaming up with Mastercard to offer a credit card which links to a customer’s mobile device.
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Koyo Group Trials Biometric Checkout-Free Technology at Japanese Hotel
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Koyo Group, which operates convenience stores and restaurants in hospitals and other facilities across Japan, has partnered with Zippin and Fujitsu to open a checkout-free store in the Yokohama Techno Tower Hotel in Kanagawa.
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Backcountry has expanded its partnership with First Insight, using the solution provider’s consumer-driven Experience Management (XM) platform to make faster, better merchandising decisions, with the goal of driving sales and margin gains for products.
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El Palace Barcelona Books in For Customer Service Excellence with Infor
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Infor announced that the five-star hotel El Palace Barcelona has chosen Infor Hospitality Management System (HMS) and Infor Sales and Catering (SCS) to help provide a premium customer experience.
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Accelerating digital and technology rollouts has reaped rewards for Yum! Brands. For 2020 Yum! Brands' digital sales increased 45% to top $17 billion.
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