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Walmart to begin offering its ecommerce technology to third-party retailers
Walmart is set to begin offering its ecommerce technology to small and medium-sized businesses amid a major push to diversify its offering outside of its core retail business.
Walmart is…
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Amazon to double size of online grocery business to $26bn in next five years
Amazon is set to nearly double its online food sales globally over the next five years seeing it overtake the US’ largest retailer Walmart.
Amazon’s online grocery sales business is…
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Ecommerce in India set to be worth $120 billion by 2025
India’s ecommerce market is set to be worth $120 billion by 2025 according to a report by GlobalData.
Analysts at GlobalData believe the country’s ecommerce space will rise at a…
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Walmart-backed Flipkart raises $3.6bn as it battles for Indian market supremacy
Flipkart has raised a further $3.6 billion as its climbs towards a $40 billion valuation while it seeks to overthrow Amazon as India’s leading ecommerce platform.
Flipkart, which is backed…
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Drone delivery company Zipline doubles in valuation to $2.75bn
Zipline, the world’s biggest drone delivery company operating at large-scale, has doubled in valuation to $2.75 billion.
The US-based drone operator was founded in 2014 and has found great success…
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Amazon Prime Day sales surpass $11bn beating records
Amazon Prime Day sales matched analysts expectations by beating last year’s Cyber Monday figures, seeing sales of over $11 billion according to Adobe Analytics.
According to Adobe, Amazon’s two-day sales…
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Walmart experiments with drone delivery to compete with Amazon
Walmart has ramped up its “last mile delivery solutions” with an investment in Drone company DroneUp in order to keep up with ecommerce giant Amazon.
The US retailer has trialled…
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Walmart to give workers free mobile phones
Walmart has said it will give nearly half of its employees in the US a free Samsung phone by the end to the year.
The retailer said that the initiative…
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Charged explored drone delivery in retail in the first edition of its new documentary series. We spoke to drone expert Martin Warner to investigate the latest tech in the space…
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Charged has pulled together some of the most vital and insightful figures from across the retail industry this week, covering everything from voice transactions to interactive aisles.
Voice Assistant Transaction…