GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2020

The retail giant is increasingly going head-to-head with Amazon across digital and physical retail sales channels. Walmart’s ecommerce business in the United States grew 97% in the company’s second fiscal quarter, ended July 31, the retail giant reported Tuesday morning. retail sales kicked up in 2Q.

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GeekWire

JULY 3, 2020

The expansion plans are Amazon’s latest attempt to expand its physical retail footprint and take on competitors that offer a hybrid online and in-person shopping experience. Amazon’s big retail push positions the company to better compete with the sizeable brick-and-mortar footprints of Walmart, Target, Kroger, and others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In online learning, adaptive content personalizes education to individual needs, while in thoughtful, intelligent retail, automated shelves use real-time data to monitor stock levels, creating a seamless shopping experience. For instance, tools such as Net Promoter Scores (NPS) can assess how IT initiatives improve the customer experience.

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2020

Amazon has pledged to make its retail and cloud-computing operations “net carbon zero” by 2040, but its newly released 2019 sustainability report shows that greenhouse gas emissions rose over the previous year by 15%. (Jordan Stead / Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Cameron James, an Amazon vice president who most recently worked on the company’s physical retail stores, left the Seattle company this week after more than 14 years in a variety of roles. Since then, the company has launched a variety of physical retail concepts, including its Amazon Go, Amazon 4-star, and Amazon Fresh stores.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

Behind the scenes at one of South America’s largest retail conglomerates, human resources (HR) professionals manage the movement of tens of thousands of employees. With annual sales in the billions, the retail giant prides itself on delivering superior shopping experiences to customers. The system upgrade corrected this problem.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Instead of gathering specific data to answer particular questions, they cast ever-wider nets, creating vast information repositories without clear purpose or direction. A friend who is head of data at a retail chain discovered this when they stopped asking, “What else can we collect?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

The energy and utilities sectors are also poised for transformation, with sustainability initiatives such as Saudi Arabias Vision 2030 and the UAEs Net Zero 2050 fueling investments in smart grids, renewable energy, and AI-driven efficiency solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Reasons for this limitation include data sovereignty and residency requirements, the need to support ultra-low latency workloads, and concerns about losing control over mission-critical use cases, such as production assembly lines or retail point-of-sale systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Today’s technology leaders must deeply understand their organization’s financial health, from top-line revenue to net income. For those unfamiliar with Peavey Industries and Peavey Mart , we’re a 100% Canadian- and employee-owned retailer dedicated to serving farmers and ranchers with more than 90 stores across the country.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2023

The chart below is what Amazon’s net sales look like in raw numbers over the past several years, broken down into the major business segments reported by the Seattle-based company. Here are the same results, expressed as a percentage of net sales. Amazon is undergoing a steady transformation under CEO Andy Jassy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2022

The program gave the British retailer unprecedented insight into its customers and their buying habits. Establishing the net value of data operations. He and his wife, Edwinna Dunn, own Dunnhumby, a global customer data science company that helped Tesco create its Clubcard, the world’s first supermarket loyalty card.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2025

As part of this transition, the company is aiming for a net-zero carbon footprint by 2050. Whether in production management, application modernization, fleet fueling, or retail store operations, AI can help improve efficiency in delivery and help support the business transformation that drives value creation.

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GeekWire

JULY 11, 2021

Nordstrom has acquired a minority stake in the fashion brands Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT through a deal with UK online giant Asos, in the Seattle-based retailer’s latest bid to boost its digital business and appeal to millennials. are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with them to reimagine the wholesale/retail?partnership,”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

Large pharmacy and healthcare firm A large American retail pharmacy and healthcare company was looking to upgrade its aging knowledge management systems. “All the documents needed were visible in OnBase without relying on paper to complete the work,” said the bank’s senior vice president and director of operations and process improvements. “We

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Apple’s new Mac mini with the M1 chip is on sale at select retailers. An active PS Plus membership also nets you access to exclusive discounts from the PS Store, along with free games that rotate out on a monthly cadence. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Its net income nearly tripled from this time last year, as retail store closures and coronavirus restrictions encouraged people to spend big online. billion in net income, up from $2.13 Even without it happening this summer, Amazon’s net sales reached $96.1 Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. billion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2023

x for business value even before ChatGPT became a household name. That is why the omnichannel used-car retailer earned a coveted spot on the 2023 CIO 100 Award list: for its early, innovative use of a nascent AI technology that led to a spike in page views as well as higher SEO ranking and placement that drove substantial business growth.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last year, Amazon’s total net sales surpassed the half-trillion-dollar mark. To understand the drivers behind Amazon’s sales and profits performance, we analyzed the company’s sales and profits by product groups, countries, and business segments. Following are the top 10 insights from our analysis.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In our report Now You See Me -- Video Chat Improves The Customer Experience we found that retail, financial services, healthcare, and other verticals embrace video chat as a way to serve customers in their time of need and as a way to drive measureable ROI. A key driver to adoption is reducing friction.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 16, 2022

We’ve recently conducted net-new data research to gain a snapshot of European consumers’ environmental expectations and attitudes. Guest blog post by Melissa Chaudet, senior research associate. It’s no secret that European consumers are increasingly concerned about the environmental impact of their consumption habits.

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The Verge

AUGUST 9, 2020

It’s a bit of an on-the-nose example of how e-commerce is overtaking the traditional brick-and-mortar retail establishments that used to be at the center of the shopping mall experience. It’s not clear where or how many stores Amazon is considering, or how smaller mall tenants might feel about sharing a roof with the e-comm retail giant.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

grew 97% in the company’s second fiscal quarter, ended July 31, the retail giant reported last month. ecommerce sales, exceeding 11% of the retail giant’s overall U.S. net sales for the first time, according to GeekWire’s calculations, based on Walmart’s current and past financial results.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Bottom line: this new system is capable of orchestrating huge volumes of data at large scale in a highly decentralized hybrid retail ecosystem – empowering Zabka to turn its ambitious vision into a reality. abka as a company is based on innovative methods of operation, our stores are modern and connected by a vast IT net.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2023

Several employees — including a creative lead and vice president of retail sales — said they were laid off by the company. million in Q4, in line with the year-ago quarter, and a net loss of $5.8 Founded in 2010, Leafly’s online marketplace lets customers shop and select cannabis products from licensed retailers.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

(Amazon Photo) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sat down Thursday with Kara Hurst, the company’s chief sustainability officer, to discuss the cloud, retail and entertainment giant’s efforts to meet a pledge of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2025

Seattle-based company Leafly will be delisted from the Nasdaq after failing to meet minimum requirements for net income. The company, which offers cannabis information and helps retailers facilitate orders, reported a 20% decrease in revenue for the third quarter last year, to $8.3 million, with a net loss of $1.1 million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2022

Digital twins will likely do for the infrastructure space what various platform models have already done for music, books, retail, and gig economy services. These new business models are disrupting the infrastructure industry and reconfiguring opportunities as the industry adjusts to new ways of working. Digital twin use cases and ROI.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Amazon is teaming up with another retail competitor to offer customers more places to return products. The Seattle retailer confirmed that it recently began testing a partnership with pet giant Petco, which will accept returns from customers who purchased items on Amazon.com. Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2020

recently reported revenue of $249 million for the quarter ended June 27, down 4%, and a net loss of $57 million, vs. a net loss of $14 million a year earlier. The company said it was able to minimize the impact of retail store closures on its sales by expanding its direct-to-consumer sales. Sonos, based in Santa Barbara, Calif.,

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Identity services must be in place regardless of sector — retail, finance, insurance, healthcare, government, cloud service, education — in order to extend business reach via social, mobile, cloud, and the Internet of Things. Identity relationship management market to exceed $50 billion by 2020 (net-security.org).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 31, 2023

Telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, publishing, and others have seen amazing changes in terms of new opportunities, capabilities, and efficiencies. 2] But by 2050, as we collectively seek to meet net-zero targets, 90% of the world’s electricity is predicted to come from renewable sources. [3]

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Net sales rose 15% to $110.8 For the first time in Amazon’s history, the company’s revenue from online and physical retail store sales represented less than 50% of its overall revenue for the quarter, due to steady increases in areas such as its Amazon Web Services cloud business and revenue from advertising.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

For instance: Unilever : The companys CDO has implemented a data platform to track supply chain emissions, aligning with net-zero targets. For example, retailers are leveraging AI-powered demand forecasting to reduce overproduction and excess inventory, significantly cutting down carbon emissions and waste.

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Spearline Testing

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With Black Friday's built-up enthusiasm about to be launched across retail stores and websites, contact centers are another industry that will quickly be affected and should be prepared for the spike in traffic. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 84.2 In the same year, 93.2 million that did in 2018.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

. “The phrase ‘serving customers’ has traditionally meant one thing at Walmart,” said Walmart CEO Doug McMillon on the earnings call, referring to traditional retail sales. dropped back into the single-digits as more customers returned to physical retail stores. net sales, vs. 6% of its $85 billion in U.S.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

Amazon’s record 2020 results of $386 billion in net sales and $23 billion in operating profits, as noted in a presentation by Brian Olsavsky, chief financial officer, were almost an afterthought. In contrast, there are many successful, small, fast growing retailers that are doing incredibly well selling online. Where are they?

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