Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Manager of Digital Strategy & Innovation, General Mills Jennifer Lambert, SVP of Strategy & Planning, Hy-Vee, Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2021

“We are excited to have a storytelling platform in the pet category that communicates Purina’s expertise and commitment to providing the leading products that keep pets safe, happy and healthy,” said Kenneth Endermuhle, Manager of Category Experience Design at Purina in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The solution provider will use the funding to scale deployment of autonomous urban supermarkets across Europe and the U.S., enter new geographies and develop its store and inventory management software application suite, StoreOS. New strategic investors include SAP SE, which will also help commercialize Trigo’s solution.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The in-store grocery shopping experience has held on to its appeal, even as supermarket retailers have realized that they also need to offer customers simple, yet personalized, digital commerce options. But supermarkets can no longer rely on simply providing a top-notch store experience for success.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Jeanette Fenske, director of stores at Woolworths Supermarket, was this year’s distinguished recipient of the Women Leaders in Retail scholarship, supported by the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) and Chief Executive Women. IR : Being a manager and a leader are two entirely different roles.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sainsbury’s will upgrade 22,500 checkouts across its supermarkets, convenience stores and fuel stations with cloud-based POS and analytics solutions from NCR Voyix. NCR Voyix has grown alongside Sainsbury’s for two decades, unlocking new capabilities and optimizing product management, sales forecasting and store efficiencies.”

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Zhang, who had been named CEO in May 2015 , recently narrowed his responsibilities to focus on leading the Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group, which Alibaba plans to spin off under a separate management team to be appointed at a later date.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Here are some examples covering the spectrum of diversification, from a continuist perspective to more disruptive cases: In July 2021, John Lewis revealed plans to become a private landlord by building 10,000 new homes over the next 10 years on land currently used as car parks and above Waitrose supermarkets across the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

Southeastern Grocers­ — parent company of BI-LO, Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie — has launched an initial public offering of 8.9 One of the largest conventional supermarket companies in the U.S., The company also saw positive comparable store sales in every quarter of fiscal 2019, including 17.8%

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Price Chopper/Market 32 has expanded its partnership with fresh grocery platform Invafresh , which already helps the 131-store supermarket chain prevent 20 tons of food from being wasted each week. Supermarket retailer Weis Markets also began working with Invafresh in August 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

While 7-Eleven is at the forefront of inventive uses for vision AI in the convenience retail market, we are also observing interest and adoption of vision AI for supermarket retailers for resource reallocation, to mirror each store’s unique ebb and flow of operations and foot traffic throughout the day.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

The supermarket retailer will close 48 stores in upstate New York and Pennsylvania that are located in the “path of totality” from 3 to 3:30 p.m. Wegmans doesn’t want its employees (or its customers for that matter) to miss what will be the last total solar eclipse visible from North America for 20 years. ET on April 8.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The Tally robots from Simbe will roam the aisles of five Price Chopper/Market 32 and five Tops Friendly Markets stores through January 2025, when Northeast Grocery will evaluate the pilot results to determine next steps that could include expanding the robots’ deployment to other supermarkets.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Additionally, National Retail Solutions (NRS) , which provides point-of-sale and other store management solutions for more than 17,000 bodegas and neighborhood convenience stores, is partnering with Uber Direct to support same-day delivery offerings.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

The solution features built-in catalog services and automated marketing campaigns as well as flexible fulfillment solutions that allow retailers to choose the model that works best for their stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2024

He originally joined the supermarket retailer in 2004 as a grocery buyer and category manager: Its a brand I know well and look forward to caring for in my new role. Nicholsons career also has included stints at Walmart, SuperValu and Winn-Dixie.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2024

If that’s the case, it could enable Saks-Neiman’s to provide seamless online and physical store services that other competitors don’t offer.” Kestenbaum noted that Amazon “had hoped for big growth in supermarkets but it has proven a big challenge to crack into the top five performers in that industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, had piloted a cashierless customer experience at this store using its own technology in 2019. The store will continue to be staffed with Sainsbury’s employees who will answer shopper questions, check IDs for alcohol purchases and restock shelves. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 16, 2023

Other companies implementing similar technology include: Sam’s Club , which rolled out automated floor-scrubbing and shelf-scanning robots to its stores over the course of 2022 through a partnership with Brain Corp and Tennant Company; Kum & Go , which is in the process of introducing ICE Cobotics’ Cobi 18 floor-cleaning robotics across its locations, (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

We have a lot of installations on every floor; there’s Christmas music playing everywhere, so the spirit in the store is very uplifting, very joyous, especially when the children come to see Santa. I love the holiday season,” said Eddie Quezada, the Produce Manager at a Stop & Shop in Long Island, N.Y.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

With retailers removing best-before dates to reduce food waste, UK consumers still want supermarkets to offer discounts on goods nearing expiry, according to the latest data from Retail Insight , the leading provider of store operations execution software.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Good Food Holdings and Instacart will open the first Instacart Platform-powered Connected Store at a Bristol Farms location in Irvine, Calif. The supermarket will utilize the Connected Stores experience to help shoppers move seamlessly between the retailer’s app, website and in-store experience.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Thirteen years after Woolworths introduced self-service checkouts to Australian supermarket shoppers, discount grocer Aldi has bowed to the demand for quick and convenient self-serve transactions at its stores. Managing costs. Of course, operating an online channel brings with it heavy costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2023

With refreshed apps, streamlined loyalty programs and experimental presences in-store and in the metaverse, retailers have gone above and beyond to entice and retain customers. Similarly, Lowes Foods has prioritized unique experiences, opting for entertainment-based enhancements to its 80 full-service supermarkets.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2024

M&S has named Morrisons retail operations boss Jayne Wall as its new director of central store operations. Wall, who said last month she would be leaving the supermarket after over a decade, will take up her new role at the high-street giant in August.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

will reveal data on how consumers’ in-store shopping behaviors will change and evolve through Q4, including in-demand categories, top-performing retailers, and the challenges and opportunities that exist for all merchants during the season. In the key grocery category, Placer.ai

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

Every retail store has unique property characteristics that should be taken into consideration when deciding on physical security — one of which includes where your store is located. Ensure that your store has proper lighting for clear video footage. Ensure Secure and Convenient Access for all Employees.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2022

A shorter store dwell time will lead to a decrease in sales. Studies have shown that unpleasant sounds or “noise clutter” in retail stores and supermarkets can reduce sales by nearly 30%. From a retail staff perspective, the store’s team members spend a much longer period in the store than customers.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

We no longer, as a general rule, expect supermarkets to be physical-only entities. Coles have to drive e-commerce customer experience, supply chain automation, store operations optimisation … and in some cases, they’re on the backfoot because some of their store fit outs are pretty old,” he said. “It’s

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Price Chopper/Market 32 and Tops Markets have entered into a definitive merger agreement that will put nearly 300 supermarkets in the Northeast under a single company. and will continue to be managed locally by their respective leaders. The new parent company will be headquartered in Schenectady, N.Y.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

food retail industry comprises nearly 63,000 grocery stores and supermarkets, which amounted to $765.98 Additionally, solutions that integrate into existing apps must be easy for retailer developer teams to work with and manage. billion in sales in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2024

For instance, monitoring energy consumption can help mitigate the impact of rising energy prices, with one estimate suggesting that reducing energy costs by 10% could increase the profit margin of the average supermarket by 16%. Another area is managing complex real estate, fleet and equipment leases effectively.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 12, 2024

Aldi UK and Ireland boss Giles Hurley has pledged that it will never be beaten on pay by any other supermarket as the discounter bumps its hourly rates for the second time this year. The new pay increase will see the national minimum rate for store assistants and deputy store managers rise from £12 to £12.40, and from £13.55

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2021

Alert Innovation will launch a training and career development organization focused on its Alphabot robotics solution, offering interactive programs covering topics including safety, basic operation, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, overall system management and detailed servicing for experts.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Retail is already seeing successful use cases: Albertsons recently rolled out a predictive ordering platform from Afresh Technologies designed for the rapidly changing nature of fresh products to more than 2,000 of its supermarkets, providing department managers with easy-to-use ordering tools leveraging real-time insights.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2021

But it turned out that the emporium of toys, games and fun could not in the end withstand the relentless competition and margin hits from the internet and supermarket retailers. Less than a year later, the UK arm filed for administration and all the stores were eventually shut. and abroad. In 2017, the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2020

Now, supermarket robots can also clean and sanitize while stocking shelves and cleaning. Brady Watkins is the Senior Vice President and General Manager at SoftBank Robotics America. The LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot by start-up Xenex uses pulsed UV light to kill viruses, bacteria and spores on surfaces.

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