Loop Neighborhood

Walmart is moving back into brick-and-mortar expansion.

A local Denver-based convenience retailer is preparing to launch a frictionless shopping experience that can go on the road.

Circle K is bringing checkout-free shopping to six stores in the greater Tucson, Ariz., area.

Verizon’s mobile edge computing platform is the foundation of temporary “tap and go” stores being offered at musical events including BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival.

Loop Neighborhood is introducing an autonomous, frictionless shopping experience at two stores in the Bay area.

For the second time in its history, Walmart’s $59 billion warehouse club division has a female CEO.

Walmart is changing the way it stocks merchandise in its small-format Neighborhood Market Stores.     In a blog on its website, the discounter announced that in more than 430 of its Neighborhood Market stores that are already closed overnight, it is shifting overnight stocking hours to the daytime and using technology to make the inventory management process easier. The retailer said it initially piloted day-stocking in 50 stores in and around the Tampa and Dallas areas with "very encouraging" results. 

Grocery is one of the fastest-growing segments of retail — just not in Chicago.   Over the past two years, 25 supermarket shut their doors in Chicagoland. Sixteen new ones opened, but they were smaller than the ones that closed, making for what Mid-America Real Estate calls an “alarming” loss of 544,512 sq. ft. of inventory.