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JUNE 12, 2021

has signed a multiyear partnership with Google Cloud to stay on the cutting edge of digital technology and drive new and unique innovation for its customers – both in store and online. Hy-Vee is leading the way in bringing innovative technologies to its customers,” said Jim Anderson, Managing Director for Google Cloud.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Google Pay will make buy now, pay later (BNPL) options available for online and mobile payments in the U.S. Google Pay has partnered with Affirm and Australia-based Zip and will begin offering their pay-in-four services on Android devices early in 2024. YoY and $2.5

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2022

H&M will work with Google Cloud ’s computing services to improve its customer experience and supply chain capabilities, by leveraging data analytics and the technology provider’s secure, sustainable global infrastructure. Over time, the partnership will develop additional data science and AI capabilities.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Google has announced that Google Optimize and Optimize 360, its five-year-old products used to test and improve user experiences, are no longer available after September 30. In its place, Google is improving its integration with the following alternative A/B testing providers: Optimizely, AB Tasty, and VWO.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Google Shopping and American Express have teamed up to celebrate small businesses this holiday season with a new take on the classic window-shopping experience, in the form of shoppable street murals in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago. The workshops will be available on demand through December.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The future of augmented reality (AR) in retail was on full display at a pop-up event hosted by makeup brand Pat McGrath Labs and Google earlier this week. ” The rise of AR in retail Pat McGrath Labs is the most recent beauty brand to join Google’s AR roster, following the likes of Charlotte Tilbury, L’Oreal, and MAC Cosmetics. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2023

Traditional search marketing tools and reports are often insufficient, and marketers require an innovative solution that addresses gaps in existing search marketing tools to enhance brands’ visibility on the Google SERP and maximize ROAS. What’s Causing the High Levels of Fluctuation in Google’s SERP? Optimizing share of voice.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Google Cloud and Accenture are expanding their strategic partnership with a series of new initiatives to help retailers modernize their businesses and transform store operations. So you’re getting the value of Google innovation — we put 21 million people-hours into AI research every year — combined with Accenture’s pre-built tools.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Businesses are built on relationships, and creating meaningful connections with employees, clients and partners has become critical to business success,” said Eric Gehnrich, SVP of Enterprise Sales and Partnerships at 1-800-Flowers.com in a statement.

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The event invites guests to virtually try on products using Google’s augmented reality tools.

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MAY 1, 2024

The deal also represents a big win for Yahoo, which has been working on ways to help advertisers maintain performance once cookies go away (although the timeline on that has again been delayed by Google , this time until 2025). users from consented relationships and partners.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

“Fortnite” maker Epic Games has prevailed in its high-profile antitrust trial over Alphabet’s Google, which alleged the Play app store operated as an illegal monopoly. Google said it would appeal. ” Google lowered its fee structure to compete with Apple, Kravis said.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2023

An example of an activation executed by Google, is where fast-food chain KFC knew that enhancing its digital strategy would drive more sales and lead to happier customers. We often talk at Google about technology not getting in the way, how it needs to empower employees and to enhance the customer buying journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although slower to innovate by nature, physical retail is now beginning to change significantly thanks to new digital forms of payment, such as Google Pay or Apple Pay, and cutting-edge AV experiences made possible with interactive displays and immersive audio.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2022

For over a year, Albertsons has been upgrading its technology and customer offerings, taking steps including: Revealing a partnership with Google that allows it to offer customers predictive shopping list building as well as integrations with Google Maps and Google Pay; In August 2021 , “reintroducing” itself with a new app, loyalty program and membership-based (..)

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2021

Google has opened its first physical retail store – in New York City. Upon entering the store, guests are greeted by a 17-foot-tall circular glass structure called ‘the Google Imagination Space’ (pictured below right) which was designed and engineered in collaboration with local New York partners.

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JUNE 16, 2023

Google is enhancing its use of generative AI through additions to its Shopping and Search features designed to help shoppers find items that fit their needs. The new options range from virtual try-ons to curated review snapshots to make it easier to find the perfect product. We’ve come a long way since Cher’s closet, though.

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Retail Times

MARCH 6, 2024

Sports company PUMA today announced it will deploy Google Cloud’s data, analytics and AI solutions to make its online retail experience more efficient, agile, and more personalized for customers worldwide.

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M19 Retail

JANUARY 13, 2021

Following an exhaustive business and technical evaluation of cloud technology providers, Mi9 Retail selected Google Cloud to be its partner for the development and deployment of its next generation of retail software and services. ThryveAI is one of Google Cloud’s grocery e-commerce software partners. Recent Posts.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2021

Google has officially opened its first brick-and-mortar retail store in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, where the company has an urban campus that is home to many of its 11,000+ Google NYC employees. These same capabilities also are available across many of Google’s devices.). A Peek Inside the Interactive, Tech-Fueled Space.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

The new members are: Marguerite Adzick, Founder and CEO, Addison Bay ; Harley Finkelstein, President, Shopify ; Ian Kahn, Partner, PwC ; Sharon Leite, CEO, Ideal Image ; and Carrie Tharp, VP, Strategic Industries, Google Cloud. “On

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APRIL 18, 2023

Shoppers can see trusted store badges when browsing on Google to help them feel more confident in who they’re buying from. 1 Google-Bain Future of Retail US Consumer Survey among US respondents ages 18+ who have made a purchase in the past 6 months, Aug 2022. Matt Madrigal is the VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2022

Ideoclick has partnered with Quartile to help brands navigate the retail media networks that are on the rise across the ecommerce advertising landscape on Amazon , Instacart, Google and Walmart.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

Source: Hexa) “Working with Amazon has opened up a whole new distribution channel for our partners,” said Gavin Goodvach, VP of Partnerships at Hexa in a statement. Additionally, both Snap and Google are investing in making the process of generating 3D imagery easier, cheaper and faster for brands. Sample of a Hexa 3D render.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2024

DoorDash and Wing , the drone delivery division of Google parent company Alphabet , are bringing their drone delivery partnership to the U.S. commercial operations in 2019 — with Wendy’s signed on as the first restaurant partner in the pilot. following a year-long trial in Australia. where Wing first launched its U.S.

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Retail Times

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Sprinklr (NYSE: CXM), the unified customer experience management (Unified-CXM) platform for modern enterprises today announced the integration of the Sprinklr AI+ platform with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI for unified customer experience management.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Warner Music Group (WMG) will partner with and invest in digital fashion retailer DressX , gaining a platform for select WMG artists to design their own virtual fashion lines. With its leadership in wearables and sustainability, DressX is exactly the type of partner we need sprinting alongside us as we build for the future.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

and scaling up its plans for drone deliveries by partnering with Google parent company Alphabet. Walmart has made a number of enhancements to its fulfillment capabilities in recent months, including plans to open a fifth next-generation fulfillment center in 2026 in Stockton, Calif.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2024

Google hadn’t been founded, Mark Zuckerberg was only 10, and Digital Display Ads (or “banner ads” as we called them back then) had only just been invented. Google Topics: A flawed solution With the phasing out of third-party cookies, Google is proposing a solution called Topics.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

New integrations with Snap , commerce media platform Criteo and TikTok now join the roster of Shopify’s channel ad partners, which already include Meta , Google and Pinterest. The solution launched with Meta’s Facebook and Instagram and later expanded to include Google and Pinterest.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

Ever since the large platforms (notably Apple and, imminently, Google ) turned against third-party cookies (the tracking codes that enabled ad targeting on platforms like Meta/Facebook), first-party data has become highly coveted. eMarketer’s forecast suggests that Google could ultimately lose 5% of U.S.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

RecycleSmart will do the sorting itself, taking the headache out of the process for customers and businesses, before passing collected waste onto councils and partners for recycling. Larger businesses can organise pick-ups as well, with RecycleSmart already working with organisations such as Google, Canva, Disney, Dolby and WeWork.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Global restaurant chain KFC launches its first drone-delivery service, partnering with Wing, to deliver hot food direct to homes and workplaces in Logan, Queensland. . A ‘cloud’ kitchen has been developed in partnership with Collins Food Limited, KFC Australia’s largest corporate franchise partner.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2021

and Google have partnered to debut several technological enhancements to the grocery shopping experience. Albertsons and Google have been working together behind the scenes for the past year. Albertsons Cos. Albertsons Cos.

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Retail Times

JULY 6, 2021

Casino Group, Google Cloud and Accenture announced today a strategic collaboration to accelerate the technological developments of Casino Group, digitally transforming the leading French mass-market retail brand and the retail market as a whole.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 1, 2022

In a pilot, Coles supermarkets has partnered with drone-delivery service Wing to deliver popular grocery items to consumers. . By partnering with Wing, we’re able to offer our online customers another convenient option to purchase the Coles items they know and love and get them delivered straight to their door.”.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Google’s Lens tool also has search features that allow the mixing of photos and text in searches. “The thing that differentiates us from Google is that our lens is purposefully built for shopping … we do not want people to take images of random things, but rather only products they want to buy,” Sandstrom said.

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