Uber CEO says app could offer courier services for other retailers
Uber technologies chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi this week suggested Uber may be working to offer courier services for other retail businesses, according to a report by Reuters.
Speaking at a…
M&S celebrates Women in Data win
Marks & Spencer insight manager Angela Lillis is named in the Women in Data’s Twenty in Data & Technology Showcase.
Women in Data’s (WID) event brings together women from across…
Alibaba IPO shrinks cash pool in Hong Kong
Alibaba Group’s impending initial public offering is shrinking cash levels in Hong Kong.
The city has spent the past months contending with political protests, with Alibaba’s proposed $13.4 billion (£10.5…
500,000 UK retail jobs to be replaced by robots by 2024
Robots are set to replace more than half a million retail jobs in the UK over the next five years as retailer increasingly look to automation to improve efficiency.
Automation…
Target drafts in Facebook infrastructure expert to lead tech team
Facebook’s infrastructure group manager Hari Govind has been named by Target as the retailer’s new senior vice president of infrastructure and operations.
As a new member of the tech team,…
Walmart Chile will resume talks with workers after widespread strikes over robot push
Walmart Chile on Monday said it would resume talks with a union of 17,000 workers who walked off their jobs last week in protest over the retailer’s push to automate…
Amazon to retrain 100,000 employees
In one of the biggest corporate re-training initiatives to date, Amazon has announced it will be up-skilling one third of its US workforce.
The ecommerce giant this week pledged to…
Shopping on smart speakers surges ahead of expectations
Consumers opting to shop on smart speakers have grown faster than previously expected according to new research by eMarketer.
Numbers of US consumers who shop by smart speaker are set…
Carrefour France invests in Symphony RetailAI
Carrefour France has signed on a new deal with Symphony RetailAI, in order to improve its warehouse replenishment, inventory flow optimisation and supply chain insights solutions.
As part of an…