TECHNOLOGY

Although the U.S. online grocery market contracted month-over-month in April 2021, it still showed significant growth from the prior year.

Walgreens is further opening its customer base to targeted ads from suppliers, beyond digital and programmatic into TV.

America’s largest independently-owned Hispanic supermarket chain is applying automation and AI to a broad range of merchandising workflows.

Facebook is expanding its “Live Shopping” offering with a new promotion scheduled for Fridays this summer.

A number of major grocers are making their products available on a new multi-retailer e-commerce engine.

Chain Store Age recently spoke with Dakshi Agrawal, IBM fellow and chief architect for AI, IBM, about how “conversational AI” is changing the way retailers engage customers.

Walmart is directly selling select food products on a popular food-focused television channel. 

Target Corp. is making one of the fastest-growing categories in its food and beverage business available to more customers.