How AI could help make your furniture delivery headaches go away

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Sundays Furniture Showroom

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Target eliminated a daily headache for drive-up workers with a new tech fix

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A Target Corp. employee loads products into a vehicle at the drive-up pickup location outside the company's flagship store in Edina, Minnesota, US, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024.
Some Target stores fulfill hundreds of drive-up orders per day, and small delays can add up fast.

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Your returns could be headed to a landfill. An AI-native software aims to reroute them to nonprofits.

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Luxome Fabric Wall
At Luxome, returns of bedding and other textiles go to nonprofits in need through the AI-native software LiquiDonate.

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The next big AI fight might happen in your shopping cart

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Walmart sign on basket
Walmart's AI shopping assistant is called Sparky.

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Vinted wants to be America's next shopping addiction

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A woman recovers a package from a locker for postal parcels from Vinted Go, in Savenay, western France
Vinted is an online secondhand fashion marketplace. It also runs a shipping service, Vinted Go.

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Walmart is starting to deliver restaurant meals with your grocery order

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Customers walk in the parking lot of a Walmart store with plants on shelves outside of the main entrance.
Walmart has started asking some Spark delivery workers to deliver customers' restaurant orders.

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Walmart's online grocery delivery boom is stretching store workers

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An associate pushes a cart filled with online orders at Walmart on Black Friday in Columbus, Ohio, US, on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025.

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Walmart changes cart rules for workers filling pick-up orders after safety concerns

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A worker pulls a cart stacked with blue bins down a store aisle filled with merchandise.
The two bins on the top of this Walmart order fulfillment cart are no longer allowed, per new rules that take effect this week, and employees can opt to push or pull as safety allows.

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Pokémon mania is so out of control that resellers are making big money flipping Pop-Tarts and other Target collectibles

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Pokémon merchandise
Target's Pokémon apparel sold out fast.

Target

I got a behind-the-scenes look at Walmart's new digital price tags that are sparking controversy

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Board games including Jenga and Scrabble sit on a shelf with digital price tags and a paper tag below.
Walmart is switching from traditional paper price tags, as shown on the right, to electronic shelf labels, as shown on the left.

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