Daniel Groves

US department store Burlington Stores has opened a 2 million-square-foot automated, climate-controlled distribution centre in Georgia The distribution centre includes 25 miles of conveyor and automation.

Footwear retailer Shoezone has added Amex to its payment options online and in-store The launch of American Express acceptance provides shoppers with greater flexibility at checkout, allowing customers to use their preferred payment method when purchasing footwear and accessories from shoezone.

EXCLUSIVE: How the world's largest autonomous supermarket fixed the checkout — by refusing to remove it, Miya Knights, Retail Technology Publisher, discovers Strip away the "autonomous store" buzzwords, and one stubborn problem has driven a decade of in-store innovation: the queue. It is the worst moment in the physical shopping journey, and the industry's most ambitious attempts to eliminate it often create new friction elsewhere.