The world’s largest retailer is now on track to double the number of giant warehouses dedicated to online sales to 10 by the end of 2016, according to Justen Traweek, …
MasterCard is moving from trials of facial biometrics for payment authentication, including one in the U.S. and Canada launched earlier this year, to its first proper rollout of what is colloquially referred …
The latest to launch its own, independent mobile payment platform is department store chain Kohl’s, which has now integrated “Kohl’s Pay,” along with its loyalty and rewards programs, into the company’s mobile …
Shopify was early to bring its merchants the ability to converse directly with customers via Facebook Messenger, and now it’s launching the ability to actually sell directly within messages between …
Sainsbury’s is to fight back against Amazon with a one-hour grocery delivery service in London. The supermarket, which recently bought Argos as part of its efforts to see off the American online …
Alibaba’s “robust” mobile advertising growth is forecast to boost the company’s digital advertising revenues, according a report from eMarketer, the New York-based research company. It estimates Alibaba will take a …
Starship’s rolling bots will start invading the streets of Washington, D.C. during a test run this fall. Earlier this year, D.C. became the first U.S. city to approve of ground-based …
Billed as an Australian-first in “connected appliance innovation”, a 21.5-inch LCD touchscreen which serves as the refrigerator’s digital command centre — the Samsung Family Hub — allows groceries to be …
Using the app JeFile, visitors to the Carrefour hypermarket in Paris’s Bercy 2 shopping centre can join a ‘digital queue’, which allows them to be in receipt of an accurate …
The rise of automation in the fast-food industry has made headlines in recent months, as chains such as Panera and McDonald’s have heavily invested in tech that threatens to eventually replace …