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BJ’s Wholesale Club to Power Up Shelf-Scanning Robots at All Locations

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BJ’s will use this real-time data to enable faster restocking, help associates and shoppers to quickly locate products and improve inventory tracking. The ultimate goal is to free up associates’ time to put more of their effort toward customer service while enabling optimal store conditions and accurate merchandising execution. “We

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Vallarta Tests In-Store Robots to Monitor Store Safety and Out-of-Stocks

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California-based Vallarta Supermarkets is piloting autonomous robots in five locations in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles and San Bernadino counties to support employees by identifying in-store hazards. The retailer will test inventory management technology in a sixth store.

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DSW Shop-In-Shops Step Into 6 Hy-Vee Supermarkets

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By October 2, DSW shops will open at six Hy-Vee locations in Minneapolis, with additional DSW shop-in-shops slated to open in 2021. The DSW shop-in-shops will span 1,200 square feet and stock approximately 200 footwear styles that customers can try on, with 100. more options available from the digital showroom wall. Hy-Vee, Inc.

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DoorDash Adds Meijer, Smart & Final And Hy-Vee As Supermarket Partners

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DoorDash , best known for restaurant deliveries, is expanding further into the supermarket vertical through partnerships with Meijer , Fresh Thyme and Smart & Final , with plans to add Hy-Vee and Gristedes / D’Agostino “in the coming weeks,” wrote Mike Goldblatt, Head of Grocery and Convenience Partnerships at DoorDash in a blog post.

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Wegmans to Close Stores (Briefly) for Solar Eclipse Viewing

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Wegmans doesn’t want its employees (or its customers for that matter) to miss what will be the last total solar eclipse visible from North America for 20 years. The supermarket retailer will close 48 stores in upstate New York and Pennsylvania that are located in the “path of totality” from 3 to 3:30 p.m. ET on April 8.

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Amazon Plans Chainwide Rollout of Palm-Based Payments at Whole Foods

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The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., including 200 Whole Foods supermarkets, and have clocked more than 3 million uses to date.

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Amazon’s Just Walk Out has Left the Building

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Amazon is removing its cashierless Just Walk Out (JWO) technology from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and will not deploy the solution in new locations scheduled to open later this year, according to multiple media reports.