Data & Analytics

Walmart offering 'smart' outdoor boxes for at home grocery deliveries
Customers who order in-home grocery deliveries from participating Walmart stores can use a secure, connected outdoor receptacle.
Wakefern takes on Amazon with checkout-free stores
The nation’s largest retailer-owned cooperative is piloting an autonomous supermarket format.

Sally Beauty becomes data analytics provider

The largest omnichannel hair color retailer in the U.S. is partnering with a major retail measurement and consumer analytics firm.
Study: Price more important than brand reputation among most consumers

Consumers may disagree with a brand’s action or political leanings, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they will take their business elsewhere.
Walgreens localizes product search for customers

Walgreens is improving the digital search experience for its customers.
Kroger expands autonomous delivery with new vehicles

The Kroger Co. is growing its digital offerings in Houston with the introduction of next-generation autonomous delivery vehicles.
REI building fourth distribution center to support growth

REI Co-op is putting a new distribution center that will operate as a zero-waste facility.
Mall owner leased more space in 2021 than it did in the previous five years

If malls are dying, why are so many new tenants taking space in them?
Salesforce: U.S. online holiday sales pass $250 billion in 2021

Salesforce data shows a further acceleration in digital shopping adoption for the 2021 holiday season.
Gap to release first NFT collection

Gap Inc. is globally launching an assortment of collectible non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with a gamified digital experience.
Adobe: Online spending sets records for holiday, and for full year 2021

Online holiday sales hit a new record, fueled in part by higher prices on a wide range of goods.
Carters applies RFID to store-level inventory

The largest branded kids’ apparel/accessories manufacturer in the U.S. is keeping close tabs on the flow of inventory through its stores.