retail

Retailers are investing most in chatbots, RPS, and machine learning, according to an Oxford Economics report. How Walmart is using big data and IoT to boost…

CONSUMERS are increasingly more digital. So, the retail industry’s shift towards technological approaches is really just a matter of time.Previously,…

Last week, Singapore’s largest cashless payment provider, NETS, announced it has teamed up with Tencent to let NETSPay users transact at terminals that…

4 min read JD, China’s largest retailer and second largest e-commerce company, had a tough 2018. Its stock plunged about 50% on concerns about slow economic…

Yo-ren, a Japanese retail company that aims to sell Japanese fashion to the international market, has raised US$11 million led by Lawson and T-Gaia…

The pushback against automation technologies in the workplace hinges on the use of robots to do humans’ jobs. But enlisting robots to help humans perform…

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has opened its first retail store in Cambridge, UK. In addition to offering Apple some local competition in the critical…

If you’ve ever seen a lamp or chair that you liked and wished you could just take a picture and find it online, well, GrokStyle let you do that — and now the…

Grab announced yesterday that it has partnered with Indonesia-based Warung Pintar, a micro retail technology startup company. The partnership was made…

Smart mirrors that display virtual make-up on customers, baskets that automatically ring up their contents, tablets for kids to design and customise their toys…