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  1. Department: Food
Aldi has announced another round of price cuts on a range of fresh produce and everyday essentials. The latest price cuts mean the supermarket has now invested more than £30m in lowering its prices for customers in the first month of 2024, with reductions across… This story continues at Aldi announces further product price cuts […]
  1. Channel: Grocery
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Southeastern Grocers  said it has completed the divestiture of its Fresco y Más operations via a sale of the banner to an investment group, which plans to maintain existing operations at the locations. SEG last year announced plans to sell the chain to Fresco Retail Group LLC as part of its ongoing […]
  1. Data & Insights
With over 40,000 people, 6,200 brands, 100 countries represented, and over 1,000 exhibitors, retail’s Big Show lived up to its name this year and artificial intelligence was the headlining topic. However, while AI dominated the content sessions at NRF, the real conversations were happening in the breakout rooms and on the expo floor, and attendees […]
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Criteo has announced the appointment of Melanie Zimmermann to lead its global retail media practice. Zimmermann joins from Macy’s, where she built its Media Network, the company’s retail media network that reaches more than 46 million customers across Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s and is said to influence more than 440 million transactions online and in-store. In […]
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We’re big fans of LinkedIn and are busy building an amazing community of retail tech enthusiasts on the social media platform. These are the articles that are currently on their radars, including Glory Global Solutions, Flooid, Barron McCann, HMV, Worldpay from FIS, FreedomPay, Trigo, Sodexo Live!, and AiFi. Glory Global Solutions set to acquire UK-based […]
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As we approach the end of the year, here’s a look at our most popular retail systems articles during 2023, including Gorillas, The Trade Desk, Samsung UK, Amazon Fresh, H-E-B, AutoStore, and the RTIH Innovation Awards. 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards winners announced during glittering ceremony in central London Last month, we announced the winning submissions […]
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As of early December, Amazon is on the verge of eclipsing Walmart as the world’s largest retailer, with the online giant’s holiday revenues potentially surpassing its longstanding rival’s / Credit: VDB Photoss via Shutterstock The retail landscape in 2023 is a battlefield, with economic challenges and global uncertainties, including the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, geopolitical tensions, […]
  1. Data & Insights
As of early December, Amazon is on the verge of eclipsing Walmart as the world’s largest retailer, with the online giant’s holiday revenues potentially surpassing its longstanding rival’s / Credit: VDB Photoss via Shutterstock The retail landscape in 2023 is a battlefield, with economic challenges and global uncertainties, including the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, geopolitical tensions, […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
It’s Friday, Christmas is almost upon us, so let’s kick back and reflect on another eventful week for the retail systems space. Here’s your briefing on the most important stories from the past five days, including Frasers Group, Decathlon, HMV, Boots, and the latest RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List. 1. Frasers Group teams […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Trigo, a provider of autonomous retail technology, including frictionless checkout, to the likes of REWE, Auchan, Tesco, Aldi and Netto, will be exhibiting at NRF 2024 next month, on booth 3112.  The company will announce an expansion of its partnership with REWE, which will see the opening of three new large format autonomous supermarkets in […]
  1. Channel: Grocery
The other day we took note of a piece in The Atlantic about how an “open embrace” of cheap products from around the world, more often than not sold by third-party merchants via its Marketplace has done two things – it has given shoppers access to an endless supply of merchandise, but also has transformed […]
  1. Associates & Employees
The Los Angeles Times has a piece about child labor in the chicken processing business that starts like this: “When the investigators came, operators of a Southern California poultry processor allegedly hid child workers in bathrooms and closets and hurried them out the back door, according to a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit. “In two […]
  1. Channel: Grocery
by Scott Moses Content Guy’s Note: Scott Moses, Managing Director and Head of Grocery, Pharmacy & Restaurants at Solomon Partners, yesterday posted a column on his website addressing the concerns that allowing the Kroger acquisition of Albertsons would repeat the mistake made by the FTC when it allowed Albertsons to acquire Safeway in 2015, divesting stores to […]
  1. Channel: Dollar/Value
Over the past few years, sustainability has been a growing concern for people living in the UK – a trend which permeates multiple industries and areas of our lives. With recycling rates failing to grow significantly in the last decade, Brits are looking for alternative ways to integrate sustainable practices into their everyday lives, including […]
  1. Stores & Formats
We had a story the other day in which it was stated that “retail theft has been lower this year in most of the country than it was a few years ago, according to police data.” But MNB reader Mike Moon asked a good question: But I have to wonder, how much retail theft is […]
  1. Stores & Formats
Aldi has created a new National Real Estate Team as it looks to deliver its plan to open 500 new UK stores. The UK’s fourth-largest supermarket recently announced a long-term plan to operate 1,500 UK stores and the distribution network to service them. Its new… This story continues at Aldi assembles team to deliver target […]
  1. International
Aldi has said it is on course for its biggest Christmas yet as it predicts that more than half of UK households will tuck into at least one of its food products over the festive period. The supermarket is expecting to sell more than five million bottles of sparkling wine, including champagne and prosecco, over […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Got the following email regarding my conversation with ReposiTrak’s Randy Fields and Dr. Benjamin Miller, executive vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs of The Acheson Group (TAG): Thank you for presenting the discussion about the FDA’s new traceability requirements.  People in our industry are simply not aware of the impending, major disruption in logistics […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
RTIH Editor, Scott Thompson, brings you his top ‘future of retail’ systems launches and deployments from the past week, including Amazon, Pinterest, Aldi, Walmart, HMV, New Look, TrusTrace, One Water, Polytag, BERSHKA, and 3DLOOK. Amazon Amazon has opened a Second Chance Store in London, giving festive shoppers the chance to buy quality returned products in-person, […]
  1. Channel: Delivery
Instacart unlocks alcohol delivery in partnership with Wegmans. Credit: Instacart/PRNewswire. Grocery technology company Instacart has launched an alcohol delivery service for the first time in New Jersey, US. The service was launched in partnership with Wegmans Food Markets and all independently owned Wegmans wine, liquor and beer locations. Customers above the age of 21 can […]
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See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Car Brand Loyalty in 2024 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. This graphic visualizes the best and worst car brands in terms of brand loyalty. […]
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Shoptalk always brings the best and brightest minds of the industry together for four days packed with insights, networking opportunities, trend predictions and so much more. This year, the spring event in Las Vegas was no exception. But like many other major industry events, Shoptalk can feel like you’re sprinting a marathon — there’s so […]
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Amid faltering demand for shoes and clothing as well as slipping digital sales, Nike Inc. said last week that it will bank a lot more on the thing it has spent the past several years turning away from: other retailers. Executives discussed those plans on Nike’s earnings call, during which it announced that while fiscal […]
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The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is set to release an updated version of its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims this year. These “Green Guides” — which haven’t been updated in over a decade — do not have the force of law but provide marketers with guidance on how to make properly substantiated […]

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