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Automated grocery stores have been slowly but surely popping up worldwide since the launch of Amazon Go. Now a checkout-free concept is on its way to college campuses, along with some other new tech-enhanced food solutions for students.

What Amazon is to mass-market e-commerce, Farfetch is poised to become in luxury retail. Through its rapidly-growing online fashion marketplace and partnerships with Neiman Marcus, Alibaba, Richemont, Harrods and more, continued market share growth is assured.

The Texas furniture entrepreneur just won a $5.5 million bet on March Madness. Here’s why his outrageous wagers are a slam dunk for his business—whether he wins or loses.

Clothing versus cash will be given suggesting another way to help refugees.

With this year’s Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list, we’re looking for companies like alumni DoorDash, Benchling and Alchemy in their nascent days.

Immersive experiential retailer Camp has partnered with the ne plus ultra of animation brands and characters, none other than Disney Studios and Mickey Mouse, the latter of which, Camp’s cofounder and CEO, Ben Kaufman, called “the most iconic character on the planet.”

Mavi.io in Q3 is launching shopping on the dashboard of cars with one of the largest head unit dashboard manufacturers and top car companies.

Major brands and retailers across the U.S. and Europe are looking to bring manufacturing closer to home amid the ongoing global supply chain crisis, with Mexico in pole position to gain from a pivot in strategy.

Pent-up consumer demand is boosting retail sales across all sectors, leading to healthier fundamentals for retail real estate and a new era of brick-and-mortar shopping.

Over the past couple of years, brands have made considerable strides in setting their stores up to fulfill e-commerce orders and meet delivery demands. Mixed-use real estate, specifically industrial and retail, is essential to the longevity of stores.

Kohl’s is in a fight for its life, with activist investors battling for its highly desirable assets. Regrettably, to many the corporate raiders apparent objectives may not be synergistic with Kohl’s long-term sustainability or survival.

To minimize the brand’s energy footprint, the evian NFTs have been minted on energy efficient and self-upgradeable Proof-of Stake blockchain Tezos which consumes two million times less energy than Ethereum based platforms.

Nearly four in 10 Americans said they plan to spend less in 2022 – but that presents an opportunity for retailers that can flex around changing sentiments. Because while some people want to spend less, research suggests they will splurge on non-retail experiences, such as travel and entertainment.

Bolt's Ryan Breslow has boosted the value of his fintech to the moon by promising an Amazon-style checkout to millions of online retailers.

Steve Ross tells us the latest steps stores are taking to quickly deliver merchandise to homes.

InterParfums has seen tremendous growth in the scents business resulting from a great shift in consumer purchasing behavior and post-Covid revenge shopping. The company posted the best results in the company’s history for fiscal 2021.

For most retail brands, selling on Amazon follows a predictable playbook. Here are 3 tools and programs, all launched in the past 3 years, that have lower adoption rates and outsized returns.