A new operating model that Barry and the executive team have rolled out recasts Best Buy sales floor workers, the "blue shirts" in company parlance, into roving generalists and jacks-of-all-trades.

Target owes its widening momentum in grocery sales to investments that have turned the merchant from a "retailer that simply sells food and beverage to a retailer that celebrates food and beverage," Rick Gomez, Target's EVP of food and beverage, said Monday in a keynote address at the Groceryshop conference in Las Vegas.

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Kroger’s Rodney McMullen talks shop at Groceryshop.

The ability to outduel regional banners on service and price may become an ace card for Kroger. That appears to be the case in the early innings against Publix, the Florida juggernaut that has top-notch store experience but relies heavily on Instacart for delivery service.

The ramifications of micro fulfillment will ripple through every aspect of retail, impacting shoppers and merchants alike. From Walmart’s order-picking Alphabot to Kroger’s automated fulfillment center, technology is already changing how we shop.

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A fully automated pedestrian drive to collect your shopping, ordered the day before or the same day, in less than 2 minutes. This is the promise of Delipop: French start-up founded by Lukasz Nowinskiet.

A Gartner research report predicts at least two of the top 10 global retailers will establish robot resource departments to manage nonhuman workers by 2024,

Apps that promise to deliver groceries to your door in minutes have flooded the delivery market in European cities - especially London.

Luke Jensen, CEO of Ocado Solutions, said in a announcement, the new facility will allow Kroger to offer service in as fast as 30 minutes.

The nation’s warehouses are facing a shortage of workers just as they’re trying to ramp up for the holidays. “We are overwhelmed, understaffed and without applicants.”

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Boston Dynamics said it has sold several hundred Spot robots so far, with the entry level robot costing around $75,000.

A new report from Mercaux explores the changing role of the store and flags up the importance of capturing customer behaviours, now perceived as just as vital as selling products in bricks and mortar retail.

The Abercrombie warehouse will feature "advanced automation including robots ... intelligent analytics, AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning" to increase productivity, according to a GXO statement.

Workers claim that the cause of the problem is down to supply chains not having a grasp on how much product is needed, understaffed warehouses unable to process all the product shipments and not even space in warehouses to store food.