Retail Supply Chain News

1. Live Selling Helps LA-Based Sustainable Fashion Brand ‘Timeless Threads’ Grow 3x 2/2/2023

   Live selling is coming of age in the United States led by platforms such as CommentSold.

2. Standard AI To Acquire Skip 2/2/2023

   Standard AI, the world leader in Retail AI, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire leading self-checkout solutions provider, Skip.

3. New Partnership Between Skai And Analytic Index Offers Cutting-Edge Search Intelligence And Digital Shelf Insights And Activation 2/2/2023

   Skai, a leading marketing platform, announced today its partnership with retail search and sales analytics company Analytic Index. Combining Skai's advanced automation and optimization with Analytic Index's Ecommerce Analytics bridges a known gap for agencies and brands looking to dominate retail media and retail search.

4. Enabling A Connected Experience For The Consumer: Digital Signage Provides The Platform To Bring Multi-Channel Strategies Together For The Grocery, Retail, And QSR Sectors 2/2/2023

   SpacePole, Inc., an Ergonomic Solutions Company - the world's leading designer and manufacturer of technology mounting solutions, has developed a range of indoor and outdoor Digital Signage enclosures.

5. United Natural Foods Supplier Diversity Efforts Help Build More Equitable Food System 2/1/2023

   With efforts to create a more inclusive supplier network, United Natural Foods, Inc. (the “Company” or “UNFI”) announced that it doubled its year-over-year spend with diverse-owned suppliers during its 2022 fiscal year and has established a fiscal year 2023 goal for three percent of UNFI’s annual product spend to be with diverse-owned suppliers. This press release features multimedia.

6. Granify Announces Rapid Personalization For Retailers 2/1/2023

   Granify Inc., acclaimed for its innovative conversion optimization platform, has announced the launch of Granify Rapid Personalization (GRP). GRP allows retailers to curate delightful, profitable, and highly personalized shopping experiences that can be created, tested and modified without requiring developers or technical resources.

7. Spresso, SaaS Division Of Boxed, Partners With VTEX To Bring Data-Driven Insights To Merchants Globally 2/1/2023

   Boxed, Inc. (NYSE: BOXD) (“Boxed” or the “Company”), the technology-driven e-commerce retailer and e-commerce enabler, announced that Spresso, its SaaS modular solution platform has partnered with global enterprise digital commerce platform VTEX.

8. Ingenico And Splitit Partner To Bring White-Label, Buy Now, Pay Later To Physical Checkout With Just One Touch 2/1/2023

   Ingenico, a global leader in payments acceptance solutions and Splitit, the only white-label, card-based installment platform using existing consumer credit, today announced a global strategic partnership to bring one-touch, no-interest, buy now, pay later capability to the physical checkout experience using PPaaS, Ingenico's innovative, cloud-based Payments-Platform-as-a-Service, and Splitit's Installments-as-a-Service solution.

9. Giant Eagle Taps Plantensive To Modernize In-Store Product Management Across Five States 2/1/2023

   Plantensive, a MorganFranklin Consulting company, will facilitate a major technology transition and modernization by privately-held Giant Eagle. The effort aims to improve customer experience through strategic category management technology for its 216 supermarkets and 274 GetGo convenience stores in vital heartland states throughout western Pennsylvania, north central Ohio, northern West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana.

10. Crisp Acquires Integral Group To Expand Supply Chain Visibility With EDI Data And Retail Integrations 1/31/2023

    Crisp, the leading open-data platform for the retail industry, has announced its acquisition of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) platform Integral Group. Integral Group brings to Crisp nearly 40 years of experience in EDI technology, along with a robust platform that integrates core EDI compliance with systems and applications across the enterprise – including order management, inventory, ERP, warehouse management, transportation management and shipping workflows.