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Armed Forces Gear has deployed Brightpearl’s digital operations platform along with Shopify Plus.

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THG Ingenuity, the technology services division of online retailer The Hut Group, has inked partnership agreements with Elemis, PZ Cussons Beauty, Burt’s Bees, Nuxe, By Terry and Revolution Beauty.

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Atria, a food supplier throughout the Nordic region, Estonia and St. Petersburg area in Russia, has turned to RELEX’s “Superuser as a service” offering to ensure supply chain stability in the aftermath of COVID-19.

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Mapp Digital, a provider of cloud-based insight-led customer engagement, today announced that La Martina, a luxury apparel company, has chosen to use Mapp Cloud.

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Blockchain-based platform helps connect small-scale farmers to area buyers

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The move will see the Dutch retail giant deploying Oliver Wyman’s Retail Elements tool. It is described as a suite of digital solutions that embed actionable analytics in workflows, allowing the Ahold Delhaize brands in Europe to make better and faster decisions on their assortments, pricing and promotions, freeing up time to serve customers and promote innovation.

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Bridgeline Digital, Inc. announced today that a top online retailer of prescription eyewear has selected Celebros Search by Bridgeline as their site search solution for their online store.

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Infor today announced that Dutch Flower Group has selected Infor CloudSuite M3 for its subsidiaries Bloom - Green Partners, Van Dijk Flora, Superflora and JZ Flowers to help automate business processes to improve the use of resources and increase efficiency.

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365 Retail Markets has added its v5 kiosk as its latest touchless checkout solution, according to the company's website.

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Aptos today announced that Pets At Home has selected the Aptos ONE platform to power its retail operations and customer engagement strategies. With the adoption of the microservices-based SaaS platform, Pets At Home is advancing its vision to fully modernise its retail technology infrastructure.

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The partnership allows David’s Bridal to provide customers with coupons, rebates and other perks.

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A KFC affiliate in Moscow has opened a futuristic location that uses a robotics, facial recognition and kiosks.

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Domino’s Pizza is expanding its definition of on-demand delivery to include a new curbside pickup option.

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Amazon is escalating its push into India with a new “Smart Stores” initiative aimed at spreading its reach into the country’s massive retail market.

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The John Lewis Partnership has announced a major change to its technology operations through partnering with the tech firm Wipro Limited, which will take over IT infrastructure services for the retailer going forward.

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Walmart shared details on the self-checkout-only experience at its Fayetteville, AR, store, designed to improve traffic flow and reduce training time.

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In major American cities that continue to shelter in place or that are only inching toward reopening, every restaurant kitchen is now, in one way or another, a ghost kitchen.

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7-Eleven Hawaii has partnered with Vroom Delivery to offer home delivery for many of the items it stocks.

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Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with Microsoft and Adobe to launch a world-class digital experience and customer insights platform to deliver personalized healthcare and shopping offerings.

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The new restaurant, which uses touchscreen kiosk-terminals to place and pay for orders, is part of a larger pilot program that the restaurant group is currently experimenting with.

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Today, Sephora revealed its new digital collaboration with Instagram, bringing beauty inspiration and shopping together for one seamless client experience.

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Hobbycraft partnered with Qubit, which provides AI-driven experiences to the retail market, to employ specific personalization strategies that allowed them to meet their goals and exceed expectations.

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Ball Corporation today announced that it has named Blue Ocean Innovative Solutions, an omnichannel solutions provider, to represent the Ball Aluminum Cup™ at Walmart and Sam's Club locations across the U.S.

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Can't touch this… 7-Eleven, Inc. is offering customers in Utah a contactless way to shop in stores. Accessible through the 7-Eleven app, Mobile Checkout enables customers to skip the checkout line by shopping and paying for items using their mobile phones.

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Online stationery retailer Papier is using Kameleoon’s AI driven personalisation and A/B testing platform.

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McDonald’s U.K. said Monday that it was planning to install rapid charging points for electric vehicles at new drive-thru restaurants in the country.

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Bashas’ Family of Stores is turning to artificial intelligence technology from Hypersonix to help run its food retail business.

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Bollé released an augmented reality (AR) experience to let Instagram users virtually try on its Phantom model of sunglasses.

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Go Instore is partnering with Samsung to launch a live HD video streaming platform.

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L'Oréal's’ ModiFace augmented reality and AI company is now providing its technology for Amazon beauty consumers in Canada, forging another connection with socially distancing consumers.

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Canada’s largest grocer met unprecedented online traffic and order volumes with Google Cloud resources.

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Cash temporarily won’t be accepted at Meijer self-checkout lanes due to a national shortage of coins.

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Healthy recipe box provider Mindful Chef has selected a cloud-based contact centre solution from Vonage to help it handle the 450% increase in customers it has experienced since Covid-19.

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Laybuy has partnered with online giant Pretty Little Thing (PLT) and Hype to offer its ‘buy now, pay later’ service to yet more customers.

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Rent-A-Center, Inc. today announced a partnership with ChargeAfter that will allow retailers to add the “Preferred Lease” lease-to-own option to ChargeAfter’s leading consumer point of sale financing solution, providing greater flexibility for customers whether they want to buy or lease retail items.

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U.S. Polo Assn. is deploying the Guided Discovery advanced retail product discovery solution from Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider Adeptmind.

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Wakefern Food has tapped Solutions for Retail Brands (aka S4RB) to power an online platform that shares real-time data and analytics with existing and new own brand vendor partners, all in an effort to help continue to grow the retailer-owned cooperative’s own brand portfolio.

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Swedish startup Bambuser has announced a live video shopping pilot project with the American retailer Frame LA Brands.

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The fast-casual chain, which has seen digital sales soar during the coronavirus pandemic, also works with Postmates, DoorDash and Uber Eats.

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To let agricultural suppliers in its supply chain roll out bolstered versions of their online shopping websites, Chipotle Mexican Grill unveiled the Shopify-powered Chipotle Virtual Farmers’ Market. The quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain’s suppliers will have the ability to provide dairy, meat and grain items — as well as other products — directly to shoppers throughout the nation.

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Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has expanded its award-winning App and Chat platforms with enhanced residential features, giving Four Seasons Private Residence homeowners and residents the ability to connect with their designated residential teams from their phones, tablets or computers.

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Meijer announced today it is offering free support to blind and low vision customers by partnering with the Aira app to increase accessibility and ease in their shopping trip. The Midwest retailer is the among the first in the Midwest to provide customers free access to the app while shopping at any of its supercenters or neighborhood markets.

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Residents of Dearborn, Michigan will be able to make tax and utility payments at DivDat payment kiosks in supermarkets.

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Nespresso has launched a blockchain platform that lets people trace their coffee from farms in Zimbabwe through to the company’s production centre in Switzerland.

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Fit:Match is teaming with mall owner Brookfield to open spaces where people can receive a 3D body scan to find their sizes and shop for clothes.

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Westside Market and Fairway Market have implemented SIRL’s ("Search in Real Life") technology, which navigates shoppers to within inches of their desired products.

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Resorts Casino Hotel announced today that it will be installing state of the art Focused Multivector Ultraviolet (FMUV) light technology from PURPLESUN™ to provide the safest gaming and entertainment environment for its guests and the true home away from home experience.

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VeChain has partnered with Walmart China subsidiary Sam’s Club to increase supply chain transparency for its food products.

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Cornwall-based clothing retailer Seasalt has announced it has selected Akeneo, a provider of Product Information Management (PIM) solutions, to ensure a consistent online shopping experience for its customers as it continues to expand.

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Walmart China has teamed up with Varcode to provide the retailer with a digital technology that allows it to track the freshness of perishable foods by scanning a barcode using a mobile app.

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Wingstop Inc. has opened its first domestic delivery-only ghost kitchen in Garland, Texas, a suburb east of Dallas, the company said Tuesday.

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Russian food retailer X5 Retail Group and French tech accelerator Lafayette Plug and Play (LP&P) have released the interim results of their innovation scouting tie up.

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