Instacart aims to transform in-store shopping with smart cart/checkout acquisition
Instacart has acquired Caper AI, a smart shopping cart and checkout technology startup. Caper AI us...
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Will physical and digital retail operations perform better on their own?
The lure of high valuation, standalone digital businesses is leading some retailers in a new strateg...
Is it time for retailers to retire ‘offensive’ Halloween costumes?
A recent survey of parents of young kids identified a top-ten list of “offensive” Halloween costumes...
Did Amazon execs mislead Congress about how it uses third-party sellers’s data?
Members of Congress are wondering whether testimony given by Amazon executives about the company’s u...
Get ready for the ‘IOU Christmas’
This is what happens when the shipping container crisis meets Shipageddon. We are all experiencing t...
Is the privacy paradox being resolved?
A new survey finds 83 percent of U.S. consumers between the ages of 18 to 49 willing to license thei...
Can 24/7 supply chain operations save Christmas?
President Joe Biden last week said the government is partnering with major ports, retailers and carr...
Walgreens does its own pivot toward healthcare
Walgreens last week announced plans to focus on primary care, post-acute care and home care as part...
Is Amazon 4-Star a winner?
A year after the first Amazon 4-Star opened in fall 2018, a Financial Times review predicted the con...
Are brands about to take over the produce department?
A new survey finds that more than half of consumers consider it to be important to shop specific bra...
Meal kit maker seeks to scale ‘pay what you want pricing strategy
Meal kits appear to be experiencing a resurgence at the present moment and one startup in Georgia is...
Just how casual will wardrobes become?
A new survey found that one-third of employees would prefer an informal dress code to an extra $5,00...
Will visual search bring eyeballs to Google Shopping?
Google is updating the look and format of product search pages so that feature images better resembl...
Wawa goes big on self checkout tech
Wawa has added self-scan checkout kiosks in 61 of its locations after a successful pilot, and the ki...
What lessons should retailers take from the Theranos fraud debacle?
Testimony in the criminal trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes paints a picture of major retai...
Will ‘hyperautomation’ determine retailing success from this point forward?
The success of functions including sales, operations, procurement and shipping depends on retailers’...
Stores? Kroger don’t need no stinking stores
Kroger may not have found the treasure of the Sierra Madre, but the grocery giant appears to have st...
Will Best Buy’s latest acquisition be a healthy addition for the chain?
Best Buy has signed an agreement to acquire Current Health, a remote patient monitoring and teleheal...
Should advertisers delete Facebook?
An Ad Age-Harris poll taken last week found 55 percent of U.S. consumers agreeing brands and organiz...
Should retailers set time guarantees for curbside delivery?
Office Depot has raised its own bar for curbside delivery with the launch of a “20 Minute Pickup Pro...