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Grocery Roundup: New Amazon Fresh Store, SpartanNash Puts Incentives In ‘Fast Lane,' Walmart On Autonomous Delivery

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It’s been a busy time in the grocery world this week, with digital innovation at the core of the headlines in the industry. Here are the latest developments in new store concepts, ordering and delivery from various big names in the sector: Amazon To Open Amazon Fresh Store In New Jersey.

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Retail Pulse: Wayfair Opens Mall Store; Banana Republic Unveils Style Passport

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Online furniture retailers are stepping further into the world of physical retail with permanent brick-and-mortar stores. The new location comes with a digital innovation, the Wayfair Home Bar, which helps customers visualize how Wayfair’s products fit into a room. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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Retail Pulse: The Vitamin Shoppe Opens NextGen Store; Dollar General Taps Into BOPIS

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Brick-and-mortar retailers are creating next-generation stores that incorporate interactive features into their designs with the help of technology. These analytics will be leveraged to improve the customer experience across all channels,” according to the retailer. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. Dollar General Corp.

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Macy’s Rolls Out Mobile Checkout

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The retailer has already tested the technology at a store in New Jersey. With this technology — which as undergone a trial period at three of its locations in New Jersey, New York and Florida — customers can experiment with moving items around a virtual room through a tablet in the retailer’s stores.

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How Five Retailers Are Catering To Smartphone Shoppers

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For shoppers who rely on smartphones, the “face” of the modern retailer is becoming its mobile website and app. Retailers from Kroger to Starbucks , as well as Shell , Dollar General and Macy’s , are rolling out their own mobile apps with smartphone-based payment options to meet the needs of the connected consumer.

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Retail Pulse: The North Face To Open NYC Location; Walgreens To Shutter 200 Stores

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Outdoor apparel retailers are reinventing their brick-and-mortar spaces to connect with customers by making stores into destinations that offer experiences. In the updated retail space, the company said, customers will “immediately feel The North Face heritage and experience the brand’s values.”

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Can The Santa Experience Save Brick-And-Mortar Retail This Holiday Season?

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Santa: The Original Experiential Retail Strategy. Santa showing up in retail marketing, as far as historians can tell, dates back to the 1840s when some stores went as far as putting up life-sized models of jolly old St. And while much has changed in retail, Santa’s popularity has not. In fact, it is growing.

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