Last week, the (R)Tech Center for Innovation hosted their fall meeting in Silicon Valley. Twenty innovation executives from the leading retail companies convened to discuss the state of the industry, hear from fellow innovators, and collaborate on innovation opportunities....
source: RILA
Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), the market leader in rugged mobile computers, barcode scanners and barcode printers enhanced with software and services to enable real-time visibility, announced its strategic...
source: RILA
In today’s consumer market, every company needs to be a tech company, and retailers are no exception. Giants like Amazon, Walmart, and Alibaba are racing to redefine the retail experience. They’re quickly proving that advancements in both brick-and-mortar and...
source: VentureBeat
Some experts are calling it the "retail apocalypse" and others the "retail bubble." Regardless of what you name it, the retail word is experiencing a massive overhaul. Retail isn't dead, but it does need to embrace the changing consumer...
source: By Kate Hessong
The past year has seen upheaval across the entire U.S. retail sector, with retailers being taken to task for everything from excess store square footage to failing to understand and adapt to shifting consumer behavior. Today’s retail...
source: The Robin Report
Walgreens Boots Alliance is poised to become the largest drug chain in the United States after receiving regulatory approval to purchase 1,932 Rite Aid stores, three distribution centers and related inventory for $4.375 billion in cash. The deal, which will leave Rite...
source: Retail Leader
Gen Z is two to three times more likely to be influenced by social media than by sales or discounts — the only generation to value social media over price when it comes to making purchase decisions, according to a study by IRI emailed to Retail Dive.
source: RetailDIVE
The tax framework that key Trump administration officials and GOP leaders are planning to release next week is unlikely to call specifically for a 15 percent corporate tax rate, Politico reported recently. The framework instead is likely...
source: The Hill
Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly said the consumer electronics retailer is "very much at the table" when it comes to talks about tax reform in Washington. Joly was part of a group of retail CEOs who were speaking somewhat regularly...
source: CNBC
After San Francisco passed its Formula Retail Employee Rights Ordinances in November of 2014, making it the first jurisdiction to impose scheduling requirements on private employers, predictive or fair...
source: Lexology
Retailers have begun to recognize that quality employees can be their most valuable resource but they still need to invest more aggressively in training and technology to help store associates do their best, according to Paula Rosenblum,...
source: RetailDIVE
When you mess with shopping habits, people get mad. An avalanche of rightful indignation followed the announcement of Bodega, a startup founded by two ex-Google employees that would install shiny glass boxes selling odds and ends inside pre-existing buildings instead of...
source: Racked
People in Ann Arbor, Mich., are experiencing home food-delivery without a driver. Domino’s Pizza and Ford have paired up in a pilot project that will look at how humans interact with driverless food-delivery cars. Ann Arbor...
source: FORTUNE
Around the time that Amazon was announcing its intent to buy natural-foods pioneer Whole Foods for $13.4 billion this past summer, the little-known (at least in the U.S.) German budget grocer Lidl was opening outposts in Virginia and the Carolinas, kicking off a planned...
source: Fast Company
Alibaba’s chairman, Jack Ma, vice chairman, Joseph Tsai, and CEO, Daniel Zhang, discussed the company’s strategy and vision with Bloomberg on Alibaba’s recent 18th anniversary. Building out infrastructure seems to be central to Alibaba’s future plans,...
source: Business Insider
