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In the small hours of the night, presenters on Chinese shopping apps keep explaining products and answering questions from viewers. Many of them do not exist. Between the start of …

The shopping trolley that scans, weighs and charges as you go is being wheeled out of American and British supermarkets. On 26 October a major US grocery delivery platform said …

A returned jumper can arrive folded, crumpled or tangled. Until now that unpredictability kept the sorting of returned clothing in human hands. Robots built to handle items they have never …

At 313 cash and carry stores across Brazil, a cashier who needs to cancel an item no longer waits for a supervisor to walk over. The cashier picks up a …

In a fenced corner of a supermarket car park in Charlotte, North Carolina, a dozen small aircraft sit on their launch pads waiting for orders. Since 21 October 2026 shoppers …

A Swedish home furnishings retailer is spending £30 million on a customer distribution centre in the United Kingdom. Much of that money goes on one simple idea. Instead of a …

Every week, retail managers compile sales figures, build reports and decide what to move, reorder or drop. A Japanese technology group now wants software to carry much of that load. …

At 100,000 shop counters across the United States, a new choice now appears on the payment screen at the till. Shoppers can pay in full, pay within 30 days or …

A small electric robot rolling along the pavement at walking pace, its lid locked until the customer opens it at the door, is about to become a familiar sight in …

At a recent retail industry convention in Tokyo, a robotics company unveiled what it described as the world’s first Physical AI 24/7 service solution designed for open retail environments. The …