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Walmart Revs Up Second Test Program For Drone Delivery

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For the second time in the past week, the retailer has announced a pilot program to test how well drones will pick up and deliver packages. The latest news has Walmart launching a drone delivery operation near the company’s headquarters in Northwest Arkansas.

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CVS Partners With Glamsquad To Offer In-Store Hair, Beauty Treatments

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Glamsquad is already available in four CVS BeautyIRL locations in Florida, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and additional locations are scheduled for 2019. Some of the services that will be available include blowouts, dry styling, braids, a 30-minute makeup refresher, skin services and manicures. and revenues of $46.7 billion respectively.

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Amazon’s Great Infrastructure Expansion Rolls On — Now With A New Logistics IT Center

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“Amazon is always looking for the best and brightest software engineers to join our team,” said Dave Glick, VP of operations technology for Amazon. The commitment to education, growth of the local high-tech industry, and caliber of technical talent in Minneapolis make it an ideal place for our expansion.

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Amazon’s ‘Beehive’, Drone-Carrying Trains Reinforce Focus On Logistics Tech

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The patent is the latest illustration of the company’s focus on innovating heavily within fulfillment and logistics. CB Insights’ analysis shows that the retail giant has been focused on shortening the distance between warehouses and consumers for some time. Want more patent and innovation data?

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Mobile Checkout, Resetting Store Experiences And Fairway Market’s Fight To Stay Relevant In NYC

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Today Fairway operates 15 stores in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut tri-state area, as well as four liquor stores. Via FutureProof Retail to introduce the grocery technology, Fairway now lets shoppers use the Fairway-branded mobile checkout app to scan products with their phone cameras.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. That’s not a new development. Automatic food: Cafe X.

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FTC Takes Fresh Aim At Big Tech — And Its Previous Mergers

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history, but a part of global economic development stretching back centuries: First comes innovation, then comes growth based on that innovation (not just economic, but cultural and other forms of growth), then comes the regulatory backlash. billion antitrust fine over what the EU called an abuse of the Android operating system.