Discount retailer Dollar General said it is planning to hire up to 20,000 new employees this spring.

Kroger Co, America’s largest grocery retailer, has launched the country’s first Customer Fulfillment Center (CFC), which combines vertical integration, machine learning and robotics with affordable, friendly and fast delivery services.

Two of the biggest winners in the pandemic delivery boom are looking to launch their own credit cards.

XPO Logistics Inc. has built an “innovation hub” for testing new warehouse technologies into a British distribution center it operates for the food and beverage brand Nestlé, the company said today.

Hudson News, which has more than 1,000 convenience-like stores in airports, commuter hubs, landmarks and tourist destinations in North America, has opened its first Hudson Nonstop store using Amazon’s just walk out technology at Dallas Love Field Airport.

Pandemic e-commerce rates will outlast vaccine, boosting demand for labor and automation, Interact Analysis says.

GameStop Corp has tapped shareholder Ryan Cohen to lead the company’s transition to an e-commerce business.

Blue Yonder counts companies such as Walmart Inc, Starbucks Corp and Unilever PLC among its customers.

Founded by Andrea Xu and Will Nichols, Umamicart sells more than 500 ingredients and products, including Asian vegetables, fresh fruits, meat, pantry staples, rice, noodles and other items.

The discounter plans to open 600 stores and renovate 1,250 Family Dollar locations this year, with the openings consisting of 400 Dollar Tree stores and 200 Family Dollar stores

Nordstrom said it plans to work through selling excess inventories during the first quarter, and hopes to be back to normal inventory levels by the second quarter.

Under the new ownership structure, Seiyu can avail itself of the combined retail expertise and innovation of KKR, Rakuten and Walmart, as well as ramp up its digital transformation to become Japan’s top omnichannel retailer.

Online retail giant Amazon is set to open its first physical stores in the UK 'this week', according to reports - but as you'd expect from a company which has led innovation in the web marketplace, its bricks and mortar stores will be different too.

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is now allowing users to spend bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at merchants throughout Japan.

Britain’s multi-billion pound supermarket industry is placing its bets on whether big-spending older shoppers will stick with buying their groceries online when months of lockdown end.

Ahold Delhaize USA has revealed that one of its distribution centers, Freetown Grocery in Massachusetts, became the first to transition procurement from a third-party vendor to the company’s self-managed network.