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Corporate giants are cutting staff and freezing hiring to pour billions into AI automation, and the software providers powering that shift are moving into sharper focus for investors who care about efficiency as well as headlines. Capital is flowing from people to code, which can reshape cost bases and competitive positions. This article walks through…

Seven Apple stores across France are closed on today, as the country prepares for another round of demonstrations a week after looters targeted two of the company’s locations.

Retail Technology Innovation of the Week is a series brought to you by RTIH, highlighting stand out deployments, launches, and initiatives by retailers and tech suppliers.

As part ofa new RTIH series, in which leading industry figures share the retail soundtrack of their lives, we sit down with Alan Stephenson-Brown, CEO at Evolve, to talk frictionless stores hype, exciting AI assisted shelf monitoring and replenishment developments, and the convenience of self-service checkouts. 

Some Apple retail employees have been told to warn customers against visiting to purchase an iPhone Duo without a pre-order on Friday, October 23.

Back in 1999, unhappy at how Macs were being positioned in traditional computer retail stores, Steve Jobs decided that Apple needed to make its own push into retail. The man he brought on to lead the initiative was Ron Johnson, previously the vice president of merchandising at Target.

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