It’s a high-tech holiday at Walmart — with an earlier-than-ever start to the seasonWalmart is increasing the speed and convenience of holiday shopping with help from emerging technology. It’s also kicking off the season earlier than it ever has before. Foot Locker to open a cafe—temporarilyFoot Locker will add hot dogs to the mix at its Los Angeles flagship. Nielsen: These seven tech trends will impact retail in 2020 Privacy, transparency and speed all factor prominently in retail tech trends for 2020. Deloitte: Promotions, free shipping most important to holiday shoppers Holiday shoppers are looking for discounts and also for free shipping (even if they have to wait for it). Study: Stores haven’t got what customers want Retailers are lagging well behind customer preferences when it comes to in-store technology. New app enables shopping via social influence Flip Fit aims to bring the “fitting room to your living room.” Sobeys speeds up payment – on four wheels A national Canadian supermarket retailer is rolling out automated checkout via shopping cart. Amazon adds more brick-and-mortar locations for its in-store pickup service Amazon is expanding its network of dedicated pickup counters to three new retail chains. REI piloting used-gear buy back program as part of ambitious sustainability move REI will once again shut down its operations on Black Friday. But the co-op is framing the action as part of a much wider effort. Longtime Nike CEO to step down; to be succeeded by former eBay chief A digital executive is set to take the reins at Nike. Chinese partner of GNC reportedly considering buyout of retailer Will GNC Holdings go private? Card companies unite to offer simplified online payments Four major payment card providers are introducing “click to pay” digital payment. First Previous 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 Next Last
