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7-Eleven Pilots No-Checkout Test Store

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

Technology

The State of the Robot in Retail Business

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.”

Technology

Notes and Quotes From NRF's Big Show

By Jon Springer on Jan. 27, 2020

Exhibitors on the show floor talked productivity enhancements that await only pricing strength.

Retailers

New Kroger Ocado Facility Takes Aim at Mid-Atlantic Rivals

By Jon Springer on Jan. 23, 2020

The retailer reveals Frederick, Md., as the site of a forthcoming robotic pick center, potentially ratcheting competition with conventional rivals such as Albertsons and Ahold Delhaize.

Retailers

Raley’s Drive To Be Different Gets an Assist From Machine Learning

By Jon Springer on Jan. 14, 2020

In an address at NRF 2020, CEO Keith Knopf describes how AI pricing is helping to grow unit share and support a changing brand amid lower priced competition.

Stores

The Food Store of the Future

By Jon Springer on Jan. 09, 2020

Transformative technologies and intensifying consumer trends toward health and convenience will cast a radical new footprint for the supermarket.

Technology

The Future Food Consumer Breaks All the Rules

By Kat Martin on Jan. 09, 2020

Offering personalization will be key as demographic, cultural and behavioral shifts loom large.

Retailers

10 Resolutions for Retailers in 2020

By Gary Hawkins on Jan. 08, 2020

Food for thought at the start of a new decade.

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