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The Future of Retail is Smaller, Crowdsourced and Robot-Powered

Predicting where the next phase of consumer buying behavior is headed has proven notoriously tricky. Ecommerce had been…

Executive Viewpoints January 26

Uber Eats Adds Robot-Powered Delivery in Florida

Uber Eats has partnered with robotics company Cartken to offer automated food delivery in Florida using self-driving robots.…

News December 15

Has Robotics Finally Arrived? Benefits Emerge in the Store, Microfulfillment Center and Last Mile

Robots are already an established part of large-scale warehouses run by behemoths like Amazon. They move swiftly and…

Features November 2

The Store Manager Bottleneck: Why Execution Is Retail’s Hidden Margin Killer

In today’s retail environment, store managers are no longer “just” operators. They are culture carriers, translators of strategy, problem solvers, and the primary architects of the customer experience. Every corporate…

June 1

The Future is Now: Why Retailers Should Let Robots Clean Their Floors

While foot traffic in many stores has slowed down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, things will be picking…

Executive Viewpoints December 29

Sam’s Club to Deploy Robots at All 600 Stores

Sam’s Club will roll out an additional 372 autonomous floor scrubbers this fall, a move that will put…

News October 21

How Woodman’s Markets is Harnessing In-Store ‘Anti-COVID Robots’

In-store robots aren’t just tools that can check for mislabeled products or clean messes in a timely manner.…

Features October 14

How Robots Can Help Retail Operate Safely Again

Before COVID-19, the brick-and-mortar shopping differentiator for the consumer was the in-person experience: They could try on the…

Executive Viewpoints June 15

Zebra Launches Autonomous Solution For Detecting Out-Of-Stocks And Pricing Errors

Zebra Technologies Corporation has introduced SmartSight, an intelligent automation solution designed to improve front-of-store operations at mass merchants,…

News January 23