Category: Tech

January 23, 2019

Walmart is now one of several employers that have recently faced allegations of improper background check procedures, in violation of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and/or state law. Delta recently paid $2.3 million to settle a class action […]

January 22, 2019

Much has been made of Balmain’s “digital revolution” in recent years, an effort steered by Rousteing. In truth, however, Balmain is one of many brands and retailers in the fashion apparel sector that have started to embrace a variety of […]

January 17, 2019

Retail technology is a long game and advancing innovations can be on the rise for a very long time. Look no further than Retail Dive’s list — published two years ago this month — of the top five technologies we […]

January 16, 2019

Such an overwhelming number of consumers saying they want no part in talking to robots while shopping is a powerful statement, and could have a significant impact on retailer strategies for everything from voice-activated virtual assistants to in-store physical robots, […]

January 15, 2019

That shoppers may be starting to prefer self-service retail technologies is not surprising, as more retailers have begun to embrace smart, mobile and automated checkout systems. Consumers are getting more experience with such options, and they like what they see. […]

January 14, 2019

Retailers have been cautious thus far about deploying Internet of Things technologies and systems. Retail IoT applications represent a potentially huge market, but one with perhaps a long curve, as companies are taking their time figuring out what IoT can […]

January 14, 2019

NEW YORK — For decades, store associates were the only tool retailers offered to personalize the shopping experience. Now, artificial intelligence and data analytics could replace a core retail service. The shopping experience weaves across outlets including online, in-store or […]

January 8, 2019

The report based on this survey, titled “Surviving the Retail Apocalypse,” doesn’t offer any really mind-blowing numbers — nothing that wasn’t already known or suspected — but it does offer a pretty comprehensive picture of how shopper behaviors are changing, […]

January 7, 2019

The possibility of $4.5 billion in revenue is based on the potential for Amazon to open as many as 3,000 of these stores in the next few years. That number comes from a Bloomberg report from last September, which stated […]

January 3, 2019

Card-not-present (CNP) online payment fraud is a frequent research topic of Juniper’s, and a year and a half ago the consultancy forecasted that retailers would lose $71 billion to CNP fraud by 2022. Now, Juniper is predicting a much higher […]