Former Ahold USA leader discusses transformative technologies for a fast-changing industry

Weezy has officially launched in London offering customers grocery deliveries in as little as 15 minutes.

Asda customers can now return their unwanted fashion items when they receive a grocery delivery free of charge.

Adidas’ online sales nearly doubled during its second quarter helping its beat analyst expectations despite posting billions in losses.

Grocer Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV says it is accelerating development of robotic technologies because Covid-19 created an urgent need for technology to help workers clean stores and process orders.

On 13th August, these companies will showcase and pitch their autonomous cleaning robots.

In December of 2019, the global grocery retailer Ahold Delhaize announced it was investing $480 million to transform and expand its U.S. supply chain operations in support of a new three-year strategy to move to self-distribution. In self distribution, the company insources many supply chain activities that were formerly outsourced.

Aldi is developing its own cashierless Amazon Go rival and is on the hunt for automatic product recognition technologies.

The shipping company said Friday in a memo that it has tacked on additional fees for some packages shipped within the U.S. and others shipped internationally. In the memo, it listed the shipping surcharges, which depend on the item’s weight, when it is sent and whether a customer ships a high volume of packages.

Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters is expanding its e-commerce infrastructure with a planned 880,000 square-foot omnichannel distribution center (DC) in the Kansas City area.

The retailer will trial the technology in 50 of its branches this month

Even before the pandemic, the whole fashion industry had started to unravel. What happens now that no one has a reason to dress up?

BigCommerce, a Shopify rival that offers an ecommerce platform as a service aimed at online businesses, surged as much as 292% in its first day of trading on Wednesday.

Dollar General today announced plans to expand its distribution center presence through the anticipated addition of one traditional distribution center in Walton, Kentucky and three DG Fresh cold storage facilities in Bowling Green, Kentucky; Ardmore, Oklahoma and West Sacramento, California. In total, the addition of these new facilities is expected to create 600 new career opportunities.

Amazon.com Inc. will kick off its first Prime Day since the coronavirus outbreak later this week in India, modifying almost everything about the retail bonanza to navigate the realities of a new era.

Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and eCommerce, reports second quarter and half year results today.

Home improvement giant Home Depot Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will open three distribution centers in metro Atlanta over the next 18 months as it expands fulfillment and delivery services to professional contractors and what is expected to be an increasingly important do-it-yourself (DIY) customer base.