Technology

The new lab at McGill's Bensadoun School of Retail Management will enable ground-breaking research and test innovations, including frictionless technologies.

When the founders of PizzaForno began rolling out automated, around-the-clock pizza ovens in Canada, they spent months perfecting recipes.

Greater convenience and better data make current POS essential tools to success At Calgary’s new iWash, operator Kunal Patel sought simplicity and he found it with his Point-of-Sale (POS) system.

Now that we are experiencing a momentous shift in how the convenience store industry operates is clear, but where do we go from here?

There’s been many anecdotes about people cooking more, gardening more, online shopping more and adopting more pets in the last few months.

Parkland Corporation is collaborating with Amazon Web Services to use analytics in order to improve its logistics and enable frictionless commerce.

  Look, no hands: Convenience shoppers prefer to tap and pay Cash is no longer king, having been dethroned by shoppers opting for contactless payments at the c-store level.  Fittingly, a primary driver is overall convenience, as shoppers seek quick and easy ways to pay, whether in store or at the pu

Burgeoning concept combines digital technologies with offline shopping experiences Looking at competitive dynamics within the food and beverage retailing marketplace, competition is steep.  As the lines of competitive differentiation continue to blur between channels, retailers look for ways to ampl

When John Douang was growing up his parents owned a convenience store.

Amazon is aiming to kill the supermarket checkout line.The online retailing giant is opening its first cashierless supermarket, the latest sign that Amazon is serious about shaking up the $800 billion grocery industry.At the new store in Seattle, shoppers can grab milk or eggs and walk out without c

Change is never easy.