Retail

Walmart Revs Up its RaaS Engine, Part II: Delivery

One week after we examined Walmart’s new retail-as-a-service play, it’s doubling down with a similar service for delivery. Known as GoLocal, it will package up Walmart’s delivery logistics engine for third-party retailers to raise their delivery game.

Retail

Walmart Revs Up its RaaS Engine

The latest news from the retail-as-a-service world is that Walmart has joined the competitive fray. It’s spinning out many of its semi-recent retail innovations to enable third parties to raise their retail game.

Augmented reality

AR’s Next Conquest: Your Neighborhood Shopping Center

Brookfield Properties is beginning to offer AR ad inventory throughout its shopping centers. This involves making 150 million square feet of “airspace” available for virtual ad placement. How will this play out and what’s the opportunity in geolocated AR? We examine.

Apple

Will ‘Showrooming’ Define Retail’s Next Era?

If eCommerce continues to siphon off a large portion of retail spending in a post-Covid world, can physical stores can reposition themselves in that value chain? Can they become brand experience hubs? We examine

Retail

Facebook Reinforces SMB Commitment

This is the latest in Localogy’s Skate To Where the Puck is Going series. Running semi-weekly, it examines the moves and motivations of tech giants as leading

Data Scout

Is Order-Ahead the New Check-In?

Data Scout is LSA’s series that curates and draws meaning from third-party data. Running semi-weekly, it adds an analytical layer to the industry data that