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Retailers

Gig Alert: Opportunities for Freelancers in Stores

Meijer teams with Hyer as it seeks flexible and efficient attention to store conditions.

Technology

A Contactless 'Microstore' for the Social Distancing Set

QuickEats, a tiny, cashierless store in California, debuts AWM's Frictionless technology to address safety protocols.

Technology

Mobile Checkout as a Social Distancer?

By Jon Springer on Mar. 19, 2020

FutureProof Retail is offering its scan-and-pay software solution to retailers free of charge during pandemic; downloads up 300% at Fairway Market stores in New York amid coronavirus crisis.

Technology

COVID-19 Makes a Punishing Case for Automation in Grocery

By Jon Springer on Mar. 19, 2020

The coronavirus crisis is likely to accelerate a slow move toward automation as online demand overwhelms operations and threatens profits.

Technology

Talking Inventory Drones With Pensa's Richard Schwartz

By Jon Springer on Feb. 25, 2020

The founder and CEO of Pensa Systems discusses how "flying whiffle balls" can defeat "electromechanical beasts" in the race to eliminate out-of-stocks, and how winemaking is like tech.

Retailers

Superior Grocers, Weis Turning to Automation to Improve Operations

By WGB Staff on Feb. 24, 2020

Regional grocery chains leverage Itasca technology to become more strategic.

Technology

7-Eleven Pilots No-Checkout Test Store

By Jackson Lewis on Feb. 06, 2020

Convenience chain aims to address consumer expectations of faster service, improved experience.

Technology

The State of the Robot in Retail Business

By Georges Mirza on Feb. 06, 2020

The author assesses current progress, and long-term vision, for various players in the in-store robotics field.

Technology

Identity Management in Retail: Its Time Has Come

By Gary Hawkins on Feb. 05, 2020

In a world of online hacking, stolen identities, deep fakes and fake news, efficient tools for age verification, including biometrics, are now within reach.

Industry Partners

FMI’s Sarasin Outlines Road Map for the Reordered Food World

By Meg Major on Jan. 28, 2020

In her annual state of the industry keynote, the trade association’s chief framed four key areas of the new food marketplace through the lenses “of what we need to learn, what we must unlearn and what we need to relearn.”

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