
Sephora plans 260-store expansion through Kohl's, owned stores
A year after announcing plans for its biggest North American expansion, Sephora is carrying out its largest expansion in the U.S. with over double the number of store openings than it had planned for 2020

Amazon enters a new phase - The Backroom Podcast
The pandemic has demonstrated to customers that e-commerce has its limits, and for many has been a reminder that it can come at a price, environmentally, financially and socially.

Target to roll out dedicated Apple shops inside 17 locations
Target has leveraged its 15-year long partnership with Apple to open the shop-in-shops.

Ocado Turns To Electric And Pedal Power For Zoom Service
Ocado Zoom, the rapid grocery delivery service owned by British online grocer Ocado Retail, has launched a trial of electric, electric assisted and pedal-powered vehicles

Israeli firm showcases a delivery drone that can navigate without GPS
The feat, a “worldwide first”, was carried out in a flight to an area beyond the experimenters’ line of sight, using computer vision and artificial intelligence technologies.

Food Lion starts accepting online orders from SNAP customers in NC
Food Lion is joining a growing group of supermarket chains that are giving SNAP recipients the option of purchasing groceries electronically.

Peapod founders re-enter grocery e-commerce with custom shopping tool
Sifter joins a growing list of services that seek to offer personalized solutions for shoppers while relying on retailers to handle fulfillment.


Retailers trade Fifth Ave. for Worth Ave. as Palm Beach scene thrives with Americans heading South
Retailers, restaurants and other business owners want to be where the people are. And people are moving to South Florida in droves.


Freshly to soon open facility in Georgia followed by more later in 2021
Freshly plans to open a new facility in the Atlanta metro area in mid-February.

Unilever plans $2.4B investment in high-growth products, e-commerce
Unilever will invest $2.4 billion (2 billion euros) over the next two years to support high-growth business segments like beauty products, plant-based food and e-commerce.

Ocado Zoom trials zero emissions fleet
Ocado’s rapid service Zoom is trialling several electric and pedal-powered vehicles to make deliveries to customers from its site in Acton, West London.

Instacart names Facebook VP as operations chief
Instacart has named Asha Sharma as its new chief operating officer, the company announced Tuesday.


Gartner: demand for robotic goods-to-person systems will quadruple through 2023
Through 2023, demand for robotic goods-to-person (G2P) systems will quadruple to help enforce social distancing in warehouses, according to Gartner, Inc.
Walmart Canada revamps supply chain invoicing with blockchain
Walmart Canada is reducing costs and errors associated with supply chain invoices.

Starbucks' 'Future Drive-Thru Concept' is Coming
Drive-thru stores drove more than half of the company’s net sales in the first quarter.
