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Why Making Close to Customer Will be Vital for Supply Chains

With demand expanding to new heights as consumers grow increasingly connected, supply chains will have little…

Drones Could Be the Future of Customer Service in Walmart Stores

A number of patent filings provides tantalizing clues into how Walmart is thinking about technology in the…

McKinsey: Automation Could Displace as Many as 800 Million Jobs, and Here’s Which Ones Will Go

It may have started with pesky sales phone calls you responded to before realizing the "person" on the line…

Report: Brands Strive for Transparency, Held Back by Technology

A recent report highlights how transparent, compliant supply chains benefit all aspects of apparel businesses…

Report: Millions of US Retail Jobs at Risk Due to Automation—Or Are They?

Automation could axe most of the U.S. retail workforce in upcoming years.

<em>Here Come the Robots:</em> Imagining the Footwear Factories of the Future

Try and imagine the footwear factory of the future. What do you see? If it were up to Adidas, it would look…

Walmart’s Latest Innovation Solves the Problem of In-Store Pickup

A Walmart store in Arkansas is testing an automatic pickup machine for online orders.

Adidas Speedfactory Makes Its First Shoe

Adidas’ much-hyped Speedfactory has finally produced its first shoe, in what the brand is calling a…

Op-Ed: Automation Will be Key to Curbing Rising Costs

Today's apparel, textile and footwear executives are facing significant challenges. Competitve pressures are…

Will Sewbots Bring Denim Manufacturing Back to the US?

While the high-end denim manufacturing in Japan and the U.S. is focused on traditional practices, shuttle…

Sewbo Produces World’s First Robotically-Sewn T-Shirt

Sometimes it takes an outsider to finally achieve something that's stumped an industry for decades.

Walmart Slashes Thousands of Jobs Nationwide

Walmart announced an extensive restructuring plan Thursday that eliminates thousands more jobs than…

Op-Ed: Does Automation Threaten Bullish Claims for Apparel Job Creation in Asia?

Over the past couple of months, two major international organizations—and the government of the world's…

ILO Says Robotic Tech to Take 56% of Asian Jobs, Curb Export Growth

The robots are coming and they'll be taking human jobs.

Automation to Reduce Outsourcing in Apparel Manufacturing

In this age of disruption, where holoportation looks poised to render FaceTime outmoded, it's hard to see…