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Australia’s e-commerce market has been on a growth curve during the past few years and the recent COVID-19 outbreak has further accelerated this trend. The country’s e-commerce market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...

The pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the world, crippling businesses due to increasing unemployment, drastically low demands, and interruptions to logistics. As businesses fail to get a hold of the situation, there’s one company that’s showing tremendous results...

Fast, easy and helpful - those were some of the early reviews of Walmart’s new experiment with self-checkout, an effort that could help influence the broader future of the transaction method for food retailers. Earlier this year, the chain started...

Retail giant Walmart has started testing drone delivery of grocery and household essential items in a bid to take on e-commerce giant Amazon. Walmart said it has partnered with Israel-based drone delivery company Flytrex to launch the pilot in Fayetteville,...

Change was happening at a rapid pace throughout the retail world prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. But when the virus happened, food retailers gained a new perspective on what an accelerating pace of change really looks like. Health officials...

Tommy Hilfiger, which is owned by PVH Corp. announced Make it Possible, a bold approach to environmental and social sustainability that reinforces the organization’s commitment to create fashion that ‘Wastes Nothing and Welcomes All’. With Make it Possible, Tommy Hilfiger...

Fiscal 2019 appeared to be quite fruitful year as all but one of the top 25 global publicly traded global retailers reported YoY revenue growth - with seven seeing double-digit growth, reveals GlobalData. The data and analytics firm analyzed...

New Zealand is among the handful of countries that have been able to successfully contain the spread of COVID-19 with strict lockdown measures. With government easing lockdown restrictions and opening businesses, a rise in spending is expected which will...

Amazon on Thursday opened a new grocery store in Los Angeles which enables customers to skip the checkout line, and also manage their shopping lists with new Alexa features. The e-commerce giant said that the ‘Amazon Fresh’ grocery store is...

Tmall Luxury, China’s leading online destination for high-end and designer brands, announced new features to bolster luxury brands’ connections with China’s Gen Z, a digital-first fashion-forward customer base that is fast becoming a driver of global luxury consumption. Tmall Luxury...

British supermarket chain Tesco announced that it will create 16,000 new permanent roles in a bid to support the development of online businesses which have surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 16,000 jobs are in addition to the 4,000 permanent...

Leading retailer and wholesaler, BWG Foods, has become the first retail and FMCG business in Ireland to launch an innovative Scan, Pay & Go checkout technology, developed by MishiPay, as part of a new pilot scheme taking place across...

E-commerce has been on a sustained growth for the last few years in Thailand. While Thailand is among the few countries globally that has been successful in combating COVID-19, the lockdown measures such as restricting the opening of businesses...

Of all of the ways that innovation is happening in retail, some of the most profound changes are occurring in how retailers and brands engage with and influence shopper behavior. These marketing innovations, unlike a splashy new ad campaign,...