Amazon credits AI-driven enhancements and mathematical optimizations for Locker growth

At a breakout session during Amazon’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, Samyukta Sethuraman, a senior research scientist at the Seattle company’s cross-disciplinary AI team, gave an update on Amazon Locker, Amazon’s self-service parcel delivery service. She said that Locker usage is growing at a steady clip and that machine learning has improved reliability. For the uninitiated, Locker allows shoppers to… Read More »

The State of Retailing Online 2019 – NRF and Forrester

NRF Research The State of Retailing Online 2019 National Retail Federation Published Mar 11, 2019 Developed in partnership with Forrester Research, the annual State of Retailing Online report provides an overview of metrics from the previous year as well as retailers’ key priorities, investments and challenges for this year. For the first time, the report also details retailers’… Read More »

Denver ready to make money on thousand-foot, $14.5 million sign

Original complete article published on The Denver Post For more than a year, a thousand-foot ribbon of light has greeted people along Peña Boulevard at Denver International Airport. Now, the airport’s ready to make some cash on the eye-catching display. Installed in 2017, the sprawling LED display attracted criticism for its $14.5 million price tag. Airport officials said… Read More »

Taco Bell Ordering With Kiosks

Original complete article published here – excerpt below As our everyday lives revolve around swiping, scrolling, and tapping, Taco Bell knew they needed to evolve their customer experience to match. Their solution? Self-service ordering kiosks—the latest innovative technology in the quick serve restaurant (QSR) world. By putting the ordering power in customers’ hands and freeing up staff to… Read More »

Pay Extra Special Attention To Kroger’s Shelf Labeling

Retailers Pay Attention Kroger Shelf Labeling Originally published  on Forbes – Excerpt below So while Kroger’s recent experiments may already be showing beneficial effects in terms of in-store conversion and basket size, the more important implications to Kroger’s tests are what they will ultimately mean for the company’s consumer price transparency and the longer-term health of Kroger’s business model itself.… Read More »