Breaking mobile order ahead news: it’s not just for food anymore. Walmart is now letting customers place orders on its website and pick them up at a designated Pickup Tower in select stores. The Tower holds, retrieves and dispenses online orders by scanning a barcode...
Target is looking toward apparel and home goods in an effort to bring new items to stores later this year under the umbrella of four new brands, The Wall Street Journal reports. The financial publication states that the fall debut of the new brands — Project...
Canvas, which offers short-term auto leases, is working with one of the most established names in the American automotive game — Ford. Or, to be more specific, Ford Motor Credit Company, the dealer and consumer financing arm of the car company. The firm specializes in offering variable-term...
Throw IoT connectivity into the trash and garbage is transformed into data that reorders the products that were just thrown away. For June’s Intelligence of Things (IoT) Tracker, Rob Griffin, cofounder of GeniCan, spoke with PYMNTS about how connected trash devices are helping households never...
With eCommerce enabling global reach for most retailers, keeping track of all the moving parts can be a difficult feat. As such, many companies are turning to the world of automation to help keep everything in check. Cloud and on-premise software company NICE just announced...
The retail industry is in the midst of an evolution in the way it does business. Thanks to connected technology, consumers’ expectations on the retail experience have changed. As a result, it’s important that merchants refocus their efforts on enhancing the customer experience to achieve...
Imagine an Uber with professional drivers, easily identifiable cars and no surge pricing. Oh, wait – that’s a taxi company. Now, a partnership between Curb and Via is letting New Yorkers treat taxis just like Uber pools. Not only can they call a cab with...
Retail is more than a product on a shelf. It’s a product on a journey, from manufacturing to distribution to warehouse storage to stocking to, finally, purchase. To make the journey more efficient, retailers need an end-to-end approach, not just piecemeal solutions. Enter JDA Software....
Though luxury has always in some sense been in the eye of the beholder – one person’s definition of rich opulence can easily be another’s definition of overdone tackiness – in 2017, the boundaries of luxury have become especially hard to draw, according to Virtuoso CEO...