#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Walmart has tweaked its holiday meal deal, reducing the number of people the package of foods is intended to serve while raising the number of items i...
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Walmart plans to install electronic shelf labels in 2,300 stores by 2026, the company announced Thursday. The retailer’s decision to deploy the digital tags on a large scale follows a test at a single supercenter i...
#SmallBusiness Costco’s top executive is blaming the company’s leadership for fostering conditions that spurred workers at a location in Norfolk, Virginia, to vote last month to join the Teamsters union. A Dec. 29 letter to Costco’s U.S. empl...
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Walmart is expanding its market-leading position in grocery e-commerce and is on track to control 26.9% of the market by the end of 2024 — well ahead of Amazon, its closest competitor, according to data released earl...
#SmallBusiness Online retailer Boxed is considering filing for bankruptcy as the cash-starved company faces pressure to make millions of dollars in payments to creditors it might not be able to afford, according to a Tuesday filing with the U.S...
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Walmart plans this week to shut down a pair of stores in Bentonville, Arkansas, and Lincolnwood, Illinois, that offer only pickup and delivery service, marking the end of a nearly decade-long experiment by the retail...
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Google Cloud has designed artificial intelligence-driven technology that allows retailers to use imagery to automatically track items on store shelves, the internet giant announced last Friday. The system, which leve...
#SmallBusiness Online retailer Boxed’s board of directors is considering “strategic alternatives” that include a possible sale of the company, according to a Thursday morning press release. The retailer, which is trying to shore up its financia...
#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Instacart has acquired Rosie, an e-commerce technology startup that focuses on independent and local retailers and wholesalers, according t...
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Dollar General has named 11 people to executive positions — moves that include the appointment of a trio of new senior vice presidents who will oversee the discounter’s real estate, private label and distribution dep...
#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Dollar General recently started piloting self-checkout as the sole way to make purchases at select stores, Chief Operating Officer Jeff Owe...
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Amazon announced on Thursday that it has opened a new Fresh grocery store in greater Washington, D.C., equipped with its Just Walk Out checkout-free technology. The company also said it is developing three additional...
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Retail automation startup Tortoise has unveiled mobile "smart stores" based on remotely controlled containers that allow people to purchase food and other products without interacting with a human worker, the company...
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Frictionless checkout technology provider AiFi has raised $65 million in a Series B round of funding from a group of investors that includes European retailers Aldi South Group, Zabka Group and Rewe as well as the ve...
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Frictionless checkout startup Grabango has struck a deal to install its computer vision-based technology in retail locations operated by the Mapco convenience store chain, according to a Tuesday press release. Mapco ...
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Sam's Club is deploying robotic inventory analysis equipment to all of its nearly 600 locations across the United States, the Walmart-owned membership retailer announced in a press release on Thursday. The technology...
#SmallBusiness To help deal with a persistent labor shortage that has severely tested their ability to keep stores staffed and stocked, grocers are stepping up efforts to mechanize a range of essential tasks that historically have been handled ...
