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Walmart is expanding its use of autonomous, self-driving floor scrubbers as part of its wider efforts to use technology to automate a variety of low-level, repetitive tasks across stores.

Kohl’s has received a high honor for its energy-saving accomplishments, which included new HVAC technologies and an LED upgrade in 2018.

Walmart is aggressively expanding its use of robots (“smart associates”) to automate a variety of low-level, repetitive tasks across stores amid rising labor costs in a tight labor market.

A lighting upgrade has paid off big time for Target Corp., helping it cut costs while also aiding the planet.

Retailers are cheering a bill that would allow retail stores and restaurants to write off the full cost of improvement projects immediately.

Whole Foods Market has joined an energy program in California that shifts the grocer’s large refrigeration-based energy loads to off-peak hours. It also comes with an added benefit.

Cree has signed an agreement to sell its lighting products business unit (Cree Lighting).

Walmart has set an ambitious goal for itself with regards to plastic waste reduction.