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Afterpay today announced that its in-store payment solution is now available in more stores across the United States. On the heels of its national launch last month, Afterpay is now rolling out in Lilly Pulitzer, Aritzia, Fabletics, bareMinerals, Crocs and Krewe retail stores.

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Grocery delivery service Inabuggy launched the first 3D virtual shopping experience in Canada on Thursday, enabling customers to "walk" the aisles of upscale grocery McEwan Fine Foods in the Don Mills neighborhood of Toronto.

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Cimcorp has helped US midwest convenience store chain Kwik Trip automate product handling and order fulfilment in the warehouse of its baking facility in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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URBN lifestyle brands Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie have partnered with buy now, pay later big hitter Klarna.

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Carrefour has chosen Pricer as its preferred supplier for new ESL (Electronic Shelf Label) installations and upgrading of stores that are already equipped with the venture’s tech.

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Rainbow Shops announced it has selected and integrated Kustomer, a CRM for modern customer experiences, as its omnichannel customer service CRM platform.

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Tata Consultancy Services has expanded its partnership with Kingfisher, whose brands include B&Q and Screwfix, to provide consolidated application management and infrastructure support services.

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“I wouldn’t say Black Friday is dead yet. You do still have some people who still want to get up at 5 a.m. to go bargain hunting,” says Jerry Sheldon, a retail analyst at IHL Group, a Franklin, Tenn.-based advisory firm for the retail and hospitality industries. “But you’re going to see a pretty big dip this year. I think that dip is going to continue, and we’re likely to see that Black Friday is dead within four to five years.”

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Aveda is getting into blockchain technology to trace its vanilla bean supply chain. Estée Lauder Companies-owned Aveda launched a pilot in February 2019 with blockchain company Wholechain.

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Sally Beauty has launched buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS) capabilities nationwide as part of its ongoing digital transformation.

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Smart & Final has deployed the Zenput platform across its 256 grocery warehouse stores, to help ensure new initiatives and core operating procedures are effectively executed in every location.

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A Foot Locker community power store is now open for business in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the footwear retailer plans to open a second in Toronto in early December.

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The grocery giant recently rolled out an electronic shelf edge labelling (eSEL) solution at Stevenage.

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The iconic Raffles Hotel Singapore has appointed Adyen as its strategic partner to enhance its digital experience across the hotel's room reservations, food and beverage offerings, as well as spa and boutique stores.

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Italian fashion brand Herno has deployed an RFID system for loss prevention, inventory management and supply chain logistics, leveraging reader technology that is invisible at its stores.

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Clearpay announced today that it has partnered with top fashion and jewellery retailers including Arcadia Group Brands (Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis), Signet Brands (Ernest Jones and H Samuel), and Pandora.

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For the first time, Fazoli’s hourly restaurant team members no longer have to wait until pay day to access and spend their earnings.

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When COVID-19 hit the U.S. in March, businesses of all kinds were devastated, but grocery was arguably among the hardest-hit. The technology that gave grocery a thin but continuous profit margin for decades imploded under the weight of a global pandemic. The fact that the virus was first discovered in China and that China has become the global supplier for U.S. grocery, well, that didn't help.

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KFC Australia has revealed plans to fit its stores and the assets in them, like coolrooms, cookers and bins, with internet of things (IoT) sensors as part of an ongoing effort to become more data driven.

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HD Buttercup today announced that they have selected PredictSpring to provide a mobile-first POS platform that includes a fast, highly customizable omnichannel solution for its stores.

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Walgreens has relaunched its customer loyalty program as part of its mass personalization efforts and rolled out 30 minute pickup.

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Mattress brand Emma has deployed Signifyd’s Commerce Protection Platform.

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Klarna today announced that it has expanded its in-store payment services to more than 60,000 stores nationwide, including top retail brands such as H&M, O.N.S. Clothing, The North Face and Timberland.

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Loblaw Companies Ltd. plans to roll out its first autonomous delivery service in January, as Canada's largest retailer explores new ways of shipping goods to customers amid a broad increase in online shopping.

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Phillips 66 has worked with P97 Networks, which specializes in cloud-based mobile commerce, to enable Google Pay across its network of 7,000 sites.

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To understand where Smashburger is now, you must look back to August 2019 when Carl Bachmann was promoted to president.

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Stokke, a Norwegian manufacturer and distributor of premium children’s furniture, equipment, and accessories, is partnering with RELEX Solutions to optimize and automate its DC forecasting and replenishment processes.

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French fashion venture the Beaumanoir Group has chosen Cegid’s cloud-based unified commerce platform to equip the recently acquired apparel retail chain, La Halle, with omnichannel and PoS technologies.

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Focal Systems Inc. announced today that Walmart Canada has expanded their partnership with Focal. Focal deploys shelf cameras throughout the store to provide automated detection of out-of-stocks, low inventory and planogram compliance which drives higher on-shelf availability and operational efficiency.

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