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  • PetSmart bringing same-day delivery to Midwest

    Shoppers who are out of pet food won't have to go very far for a refill, if PetSmart's new partnership with Google has any say about it.

    The retailer announced it has teamed with Google Express to provide overnight service in Chicagoland and a five-state Midwest region (120-mile radius from Chicago) in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio serving 25 million people.

  • Report: Amazon Fire flop has repercussions

    Seattle – The flop of Amazon’s Fire smartphone device last year continues to have repercussions.

    According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon has laid off dozens of employees who worked on developing Fire at its Lab126 innovation center in Silicon Valley.

  • Rite Aid makes a move on payments

    Rite Aid is finally moving to embrace a mobile-first strategy by making a major announcement about paymants.

  • Mobile payments now accepted at Rite Aid

    Camp Hill, Pa. — Rite Aid is making it easier for customers to make purchases.

  • Study: The online journey begins in the marketplace

    Seattle – Consumers are partial to online marketplaces when it comes to choosing a starting point for digital shopping journeys. According to a new research study from Amazon.com and Pymnts.com titled “Innovation and the Digital Shopper,” 64% of respondents begin their shopping journey on online marketplaces.

  • World Retail Congress to honor U.S. retailer

    New York -- Kip Tindell, founder, chairman and CEO of The Container Store, will be inducted into the Retail Hall of Fame at the upcoming World Retail Congress, which will be held Sept. 8-10, in Rome, Italy. Tindell is also the current chairman of the National Retail Federation.

  • Three Reasons Cloud-Hosting Providers are Targeting Retail

    Retail is becoming an increasingly hot market for hosted cloud computing providers. Some of those providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Aliyun cloud division of Alibaba, are operated by retailers.

  • What it means to be 'mobile-first'

    The concept of mobile first has been around for a while – most notably when Eric Schmidt announced Google would focus on ‘mobile first’ back in 2010. However, the concept still means different things to many different people.

    It’s not far-fetched to say that mobile technologies have permeated our lives. You no longer go online, you are online and you carry it around in your pocket. Just like Dr. Michio Kaku says, “Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon."

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