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Sam’s Club to Add 30+ Larger-Format Stores, 5 New Fulfillment Centers

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Sam’s Club is embarking on an ambitious expansion of its physical footprint, beginning with five new fulfillment and distribution centers opening this year — the first, in Georgia, in Q3 2023. The retailer also completed a chainwide rollout of inventory-scanning robots in October 2022. “As

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The 3 Most Impactful Location-Powered Experiences for Retailers

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Location-Powered Experiences Drive Results. Leading retailers have addressed these challenges head-on by adopting new technology such as location infrastructure. Retailers use location to deliver stellar experiences for customers through their brand’s mobile app.

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Top 10 Contactless Trends to Watch in 2022

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Simplifying Checkout In this case, “simplifying checkout” means embracing “self-checkout.” To prove the value of these experiences, Buzek cited results at retailer Sam’s Club , where stores that offered a self-checkout option registered sales 18% higher than those without it.

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DoorDash Taps Wing for Drone Delivery in the U.S.

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DoorDash and Wing first teamed up in Australia in 2022 in a partnership that has since expanded to three locations in Queensland with over 60 participating merchants. Now, when DoorDash customers with an eligible address in Christiansburg place a qualifying order from the Wendy’s located at 2355 N. locations later this year.

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Vitamin Shoppe Opens First All-New Franchise Location, Plans 12 More in 2023

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Vitamin Shoppe store to a franchise operation in February 2022 , but now the program is moving into a higher gear. The Vitamin Shoppe has opened the first of a planned dozen+ new franchise stores this year in Valparaiso, Ind. After announcing its ambitious franchising plans in May 2021, the retailer converted an existing Greensboro, N.C.

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Amazon to Offer Same-Day Store-Based Delivery for PacSun, GNC, Diesel and More

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Available to retailers that also sell on the Amazon Marketplace, the expanded seller offering will see Amazon associates pick up and deliver online orders from retailers’ stores to Prime members who select the option at checkout. Amazon then sends the order to the store and a retail store associate fulfills it.

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Walmart Canada Will Invest $3.5 Billion To Modernize Stores, DCs And Supply Chain

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At the store level, the funds will go toward: Renovations to nearly one-third of its locations; Expansion of curbside pickup ; Piloting “micro fulfillment centers” within supercenters to speed up fulfillment of pickup and delivery orders ; and Deploying digitization, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make stores smarter.