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Amazon is looking to raise the bar on vehicle safety and reduce crash frequency and severity. The company said it is making a $200 million investment in new safety technology as part of its continuing work to ensure Amazon vehicles and its delivery partners are safe on the road. In many cases, the innovations are also better for the environment, the company noted.

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The 154-year-old Campbell Soup Co. is embracing Silicon Valley-inspired artificial intelligence (AI) technology to ensure its success in food and beverage innovation continues. The company is doing this by tracking and curating billions of data points to find inspiration and leverage agile design methodology to accelerate the development of new products that resonate with consumers.

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Petco is providing shoppers with a more customized experience, aided by its new enterprise platform. The pet supplies, services and wellness retailer is leveraging Adobe Experience Cloud technology to personalize experiences for customers. Petco is running enterprise applications on Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) including Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform and Adobe Journey Optimizer.

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The Kroger Co. has tapped restaurant digital hospitality platform provider Olo Inc. to help manage third-party online delivery orders. Olo said Kroger has deployed the Olo Rails module to about 1,600 locations to bring sushi and floral delivery to customers nationwide.

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Orchard Road, Singapore now plays host to the first Puma flagship store in Southeast Asia. Puma chose for this location the LUMOS LED display system, designed and developed by UK-based Esprit Digital.

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Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology and Amazon One solutions have touched down at Kansas City International Airport in the US.

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Wendy’s Co. has struck a deal with cloud kitchen operator Rebel Foods Pvt to scale the fast food chain’s physical presence in India to 150 locations. Rebel will become a master franchisee of the burger brand about two years after the companies signed a cloud kitchen deliveries-only deal.

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Visual Matrix expanded the number of cloud-supported hotels including the expansion of its solutions across Prestige Hotels & Resorts’ portfolio of 15 distinctive hotels and resorts in British Columbia.

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The Michaels Companies is giving its customers direct access to a wide new curated third-party assortment. The major North American specialty arts & crafts retailer is increasing its online product inventory from 250,000 items to more than 1 million goods via a new third-party digital marketplace.

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Cupbop, a 46-unit chain that appeared on "Shark Tank," has selected Qu as its full-stack technology partner and is consolidating its omnichannel ordering systems onto Qu's unified platform — using POS, kiosk, and Kitchen Display Systems for in-store — and Qu's native online ordering and direct third-party delivery integrations for digital.

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The Independent Grocers Alliance (IGA) is partnering with Ideal by Design House to launch a retail media network for independent grocers that the companies say will be the first of its kind. The Ideal RMN aims to combine thousands of stores on a single retail media platform in order to rival the networks of larger, national retailers.

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North American bead and crafting retailer, Cara & Co, is adopting Inventory Planner by Sage for smarter seasonal forecasting. In the years since the e-store launched from a basement in 2013, Cara & Co has experienced significant growth.

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OpenBlend has been chosen by houseware brand, Joseph Joseph to support employee experiences and drive retention. Joseph Joseph says it was impressed by OpenBlend’s ability to facilitate manager-employee conversations that go beyond objective setting and performance ratings to include broader discussions around wellbeing, motivation, and development.

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National brand SAV Eyewear will adopt new technology to enhance their in-store execution and unify their teams. SAV Eyewear, who has supplied and merchandised eyewear in retail stores for over thirty years, will roll out Movista's mobile execution app to its nationwide field team, allowing for new levels of frontline visibility and efficiencies.

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Infor announced that Chichester Park Hotel has deployed Infor Hospitality Management Solution (HMS) and Infor Sales & Catering (SCS), a fully integrated, event-management software solution. The new cloud systems have streamlined and amalgamated key processes, laying the foundations for continued business growth.

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Wait times for food and drinks have always been a pain point, and this operator wanted a solution that could not only cut down wait times but also streamline the ordering and payment process for staff.

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Conad Nord Ovest, a cooperative operating in northwest Italy and part of the Conad Group, the largest organization of independent Italian retail entrepreneurs, has partnered with RELEX Solutions, provider of unified supply chain and retail planning solutions, to optimize their forecasting and replenishment.

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Checkout technology company, Bolt, has announced a partnership with Casper, a company that sells sleep products online and in retail locations.

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Żabka Group’s Żabka Nano pop-up autonomous store is now a part of the Microsoft Industry Experience Center in Washington, USA.

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Walmart’s latest fintech solution is aimed at small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in its supplier network. The discount giant is partnering with Citi to introduce the Bridge built by Citi platform to the 10,000 SMBs in its U.S.-based supplier network.

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Interestingly, some big brands have adopted MySize AI-driven measurement solutions to enhance customer experience while maximizing profits, serving as a testament to the quality of their product.

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Hitchcock’s Markets has seen success from the implementation of white-label e-commerce platform eGrowcery and AppCard, a data-driven personalization engine and digital coupons provider to independent grocers. The two solutions have coordinated their efforts to help current and potential retail shoppers retain and reward shoppers through an enhanced digital experience.

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Australian retailer, Coles Group, has partnered with Bringg with the aim of improving its home delivery offering.

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Petco has invested in a new ERP system aimed at customizing key marketing touchpoints across the shopping journey. Petco selected the Adobe Experience Platform to help the retailer reach these goals, leveraging the solution to organize data internally and activating more personalized customer experiences online and offline.

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Save Mart Cos. recently tapped robotics startup Fulfil Solutions to create a fully automated platform inside a micro-fulfillment warehouse in Mountain View, Calif. Unveiled on Feb. 27, that warehouse near San Francisco is the first of its kind for Fulfil and is powered by technologies including advanced AI, machine learning and optical and sensor technologies.

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JYSK has chosen SES-imagotag to roll-out its VUSION solution in two additional countries, Netherlands and Belgium, for a total of 152 new stores.

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Retail Assist has welcomed two new brands, Hobbs and Phase Eight, part of TFG Brands (London), to its client roster. The womenswear specialists will be supported with its 1st Line Help Desk service, acting as a single point of contact for 266 stores across the UK.

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A regional California-based specialty footwear and orthotic equipment retailer is helping customers extend the lifespan of shoe purchases. Lucky Feet Shoes, explained how the retailer is dramatically improving sales in the shoe care category by implementing Imbox footwear protection technology in its stores.

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Mercaux is delivering RFID self-checkout into stores of River Island, the British high street retailer, alongside key strategic partners.

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M&S says that it is the first major retailer to green light a reduced packaging initiative for Click & Collect orders following a customer trial.

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Reserva Alecrim Eco Suites Resort has maximized revenue per guest and more quickly realized its growth strategy due to the implementation of an intuitive, integrated hotel management solution from SIHOT.

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Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) has renewed its 15-year relationship with Toronto-based Givex Corp. to support in-house loyalty, digital coupon and data marketing programs at more than 600 independently owned supermarkets.

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Strack & Van Til is enhancing digital coupon redemption and rewards with real-time transaction data. The grocery retailer is utilizing an integration of the Birdzi Customer Intelligence Platform and LOC Software POS solution to obtain real-time transaction data to support automatic coupon selection that is specific to the needs of each individual shopper.

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Wait times for food and drinks have always been a pain point, and this operator wanted a solution that could not only cut down wait times but also streamline the ordering and payment process for staff.

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Siman Group has deployed a UHF solution from SML to reduce labor and ensure products are available at its stores across three Central American countries.

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