Walmart de México y Centroamérica, Mexico’s largest retail chain, is broadening its partnership with Vusion, a global provider of AI-driven solutions for in-store digital transformation. The collaboration will bring Vusion’s EdgeSense connected store platform to Walmart Express locations while laying the groundwork for upgrades across its Supercenter network.

This move builds on the companies’ expanding global relationship, following successful implementations of Vusion’s connected store technologies in Walmart’s U.S. operations. The latest rollout strengthens Vusion’s position as a key technology partner in Walmart’s journey toward smarter, more connected retail environments.

Under the agreement, all Walmart Express outlets in Mexico will be equipped with EdgeSense by the end of 2026, representing the platform’s first large-scale deployment in Latin America. After this phase, Walmart plans to extend the technology to its Supercenters, accelerating its broader store modernization efforts.

As part of the initial rollout, Walmart Express stores will feature over 1.7 million electronic shelf labels and more than 180,000 EdgeSense smart rails—making it one of the region’s largest implementations of connected retail technology.

In addition, Walmart Mexico will pilot the solution within its Bodega store format to assess how the technology can be adapted across different store types as part of its long-term strategy.

EdgeSense serves as Vusion’s advanced connected store platform, integrating smart shelving, computer vision, artificial intelligence, electronic shelf labeling, and real-time data into a unified system for brick-and-mortar retail. This enables retailers to streamline operations, enhance inventory management, and unlock data-driven insights for merchandising and customer engagement.

Through this initiative, Walmart Mexico aims to:

Paul Lewellen, Chief Operating Officer of Walmart de México y Centroamérica, noted that the rollout will enhance store operations while allowing associates to focus more on customer service. He emphasized that the initiative is a key step toward improving operational efficiency and elevating the shopping experience for millions of customers across Mexico.

Philippe Bottine, Deputy CEO and EVP for Vusion Americas, described the expansion as a significant milestone in the companies’ shared vision of building the store of the future. He highlighted how combining AI, computer vision, and real-time data can drive operational excellence while improving experiences for both employees and shoppers.

With this deployment, Walmart Mexico becomes the first retailer in Latin America to implement EdgeSense at scale, reinforcing its position as a regional leader in retail innovation. Vusion will continue to support Walmart Mexico as it advances its connected store strategy and accelerates the digital transformation of its retail operations.

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At its financial community meeting today, Target Corporation presented a multi-year growth strategy led by Chief Executive Officer Michael Fiddelke, aimed at driving the company’s return to sustained growth. The plan focuses on refreshing the in-store experience across the retailer’s locations, increasing investment in employee payroll and training to enhance customer service, and strengthening important product categories within its assortment.

“This next phase of growth for Target is guided by deliberate decisions and a deeper understanding of our distinct position in retail, the guests we serve and the areas where we can win,” said Fiddelke. “The work has already begun. By placing style, design and value at the center of our decisions, we are making meaningful changes to lead with trend-forward assortments, improve the guest experience, advance our use of technology and empower our teams to deliver an exceptional retail experience both now and in the future.”

Target’s strategic priorities
Central to the company’s strategy are four priorities that will shape Target’s decisions and investments in 2026 and the years ahead:

Investments to support growth
To support these goals, Target plans to make an additional $1 billion in operating investments in 2026 to deliver a more consistent and elevated shopping experience. Key initiatives include:

Target also intends to raise its capital investments by more than $1 billion in 2026, bringing the total to approximately $5 billion. These funds will support new store openings, ongoing remodels, supply chain enhancements and technology improvements. The company expects to open more than 30 new stores this year as part of its longer-term goal of adding 300 stores by 2035, while also completing more than 130 full-store remodels. Later this month, Target will celebrate the opening of its 2,000th store in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.

Expanding key product categories and differentiated offerings
Recognizing the needs of busy families—whom the company describes as digitally engaged, style-conscious and value-focused—Target plans targeted investments in product areas where it can stand out in style, design, value and shopping experience. In 2026, the retailer will focus on several categories:

Enhancing digital discovery, loyalty and delivery
Target also plans to accelerate its use of technology and artificial intelligence to provide more personalized shopping experiences. The company will continue evolving its Target Circle loyalty program to increase customer engagement while expanding the reach of its paid Target Circle 360 membership, retail media network Roundel, and third-party marketplace Target Plus.

Additionally, the retailer will improve the speed and efficiency of its same-day fulfillment services, which currently represent about two-thirds of its digital sales. Target also plans to significantly broaden the availability of its next-day brown box delivery service by adding 20 additional metropolitan areas this spring.

More information and visual materials are available on the company’s corporate website.

Forward-looking statements
This release includes forward-looking statements regarding Target’s future financial performance, including investment plans and growth strategy, under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Key risk factors are outlined in Item 1A of Target’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2025. Forward-looking statements reflect conditions as of the date they are made, and Target does not assume any obligation to update them.
 

Constructor, an AI-driven search and product discovery platform built for enterprise ecommerce, has been named a winner in the first-ever Global AI Awards, which recognize outstanding innovation in artificial intelligence. The company secured top recognition in the “AI in Retail & Ecommerce” category for its advanced solutions that enable personalized shopping journeys, boost customer engagement, and deliver measurable commercial results.

Presented by Global Tech Media, the Global AI Awards spotlight organizations whose artificial intelligence innovations are reshaping industries and creating tangible real-world value. An international panel of AI specialists and industry executives assessed entries from around the globe, evaluating them on criteria including innovation, impact, usability, and design.

“The organizations honored this year are setting the standard for responsible and transformative AI,” said Sirisha Lanka, Managing Director of the Global AI Awards. “They exemplify exceptional creativity, technical strength, and meaningful impact across critical AI applications. Constructor’s leadership in retail and ecommerce demonstrates how thoughtfully designed AI can elevate the shopping experience while driving real business outcomes.”

What distinguished Constructor
Purpose-built for ecommerce, Constructor’s AI-powered platform helps shoppers quickly and intuitively find the products they want, while giving retailers the ability to optimize for key performance indicators such as conversions, revenue growth, and inventory efficiency.

The Global AI Awards jury highlighted three recent innovations from Constructor that stood out:

Continued momentum

The Global AI Awards recognition adds to a growing list of achievements for Constructor. In 2025, Fast Company ranked the company among the top 10 World’s Most Innovative Companies in Retail. Constructor has also been named Most Disruptive Retail Technology by the Retail Systems Awards and has earned six gold Stevie® Awards across multiple programs, including the American Business Awards®, International Business Awards®, and the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. Additionally, the company is currently a finalist in the RTIH AI in Retail Awards.

During 2025, Constructor was also positioned as a Leader in several major industry evaluations, including:

“We’re proud to receive this recognition from the Global AI Awards,” said Eli Finkelshteyn, CEO and co-founder of Constructor. “Our focus has always been on building AI that meaningfully improves how people shop and how retailers grow. As discovery continues to evolve rapidly, retailers face increasing pressure to meet shopper expectations while protecting profitability. We’re committed to delivering AI that is not just innovative, but practical and impactful. While this award is exciting, we’re even more energized by what we have planned for 2026.”

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At the NVIDIA GTC event held in San Jose, California, in March, Lenovo brought together a diverse group of industry leaders to explore how they're leveraging Lenovo’s hybrid AI technologies in partnership with NVIDIA. These innovations are driving transformation across sectors such as customer service, hospitality, retail, automotive, healthcare, and manufacturing.

As artificial intelligence reshapes industries, spending on AI is projected to nearly triple by 2025 compared to last year. This growth reflects both the promise and the pressure facing organizations: as investments rise, so do expectations for measurable results. IT leaders are now tasked with navigating the complexities of AI while maximizing returns and implementing scalable solutions across hybrid infrastructure.

To support these leaders, Lenovo is introducing its Hybrid AI Advantage—developed with NVIDIA—into enterprise environments. These new offerings enable rapid deployment of agentic AI, tailored to different scales of business. They convert enterprise data into actionable AI insights, improving productivity and reducing operational costs within a short timeframe.

Scalability and increasing technical debt often hinder AI adoption. Lenovo addresses these challenges with its newly developed AI use-case solutions, built on a next-generation agentic AI platform powered by NVIDIA. This platform offers an integrated approach combining hardware, software, and services to simplify the deployment and maintenance of AI workloads. In addition, Lenovo and NVIDIA are collaborating on standardized, validated hybrid AI factories that improve operational efficiency and reduce overall business expenses.

Empowering AI with NVIDIA Blackwell
AI applications are rapidly expanding to include areas like content creation, customer engagement, data management, design, and productivity. To meet these growing demands, companies require high-performance computing capabilities. The evolving complexity of AI models and the need for real-time processing are straining traditional data centers.

By integrating Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage with the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, businesses can fully tap into AI capabilities within their data infrastructures. This includes accelerating simulations, analyzing data, and enabling real-time design and visualization. The Blackwell platform enhances AI training, data processing, and engineering simulations at scale.
In Germany, Lenovo partnered with the Technical University of Darmstadt to launch the first NVIDIA GB200 project. This initiative features Lenovo’s energy-efficient ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune systems, powered by advanced liquid-cooling technologies and designed to support large-scale scientific research. The project enhances the university’s Lichtenberg NHR-Stage 1 supercomputer with cutting-edge Grace-Blackwell technology.

Unveiled at GTC, the SC777 V4 Neptune server supports AI models with trillions of parameters using a compact, fully liquid-cooled design. This innovative system minimizes energy use by eliminating traditional cooling fans, reducing power consumption by up to 40%. It marks a major step toward more efficient, high-density data centers in the AI era.

AI Advancements in Healthcare
Lenovo is also helping healthcare providers apply AI for better patient outcomes. In Mexico, the healthcare software firm AISHA—a spin-off from the country’s largest private hospital network—implemented Lenovo and NVIDIA’s hybrid AI solution to enhance MRI analysis. With AI running on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and NVIDIA GPUs, AISHA dramatically reduced MRI scan analysis time to just 30 minutes, a process that previously took hours. This rapid analysis supports timely, high-quality care across their growing hospital network.

Smarter Manufacturing with AI Vision
At GTC, Lenovo presented an AI-powered quality control system for manufacturers. Developed with Trifork, a leader in vision-based AI, the solution uses Lenovo’s infrastructure to automate defect detection. It can identify flaws like broken or discolored candy and provides real-time analytics through an interactive dashboard. This significantly cuts inspection costs and boosts operational efficiency.

Together, Trifork and Lenovo are advancing predictive maintenance, performance monitoring, and seamless integration between IT and operational systems to speed up time-to-market and ensure quality standards.

Key benefits of the solution include:

Transforming Data Management with AI
Lenovo, NVIDIA, and partners like Centific are revolutionizing how enterprises manage data. At GTC, they launched the AI Data Foundry—a solution powered by Lenovo’s Hybrid AI factory and optimized with NVIDIA architecture. This system helps businesses streamline data preparation, training, tuning, and deployment of AI models.

Centific brings full-stack AI development capabilities to the table, enabling rapid creation and scaling of solutions that handle everything from real-time video analytics to behavior tracking in public safety and retail environments. The offering is tailored to various deployment sizes and includes powerful Lenovo servers, NVIDIA GPUs, and advanced networking.

Use cases range from large-scale multimodal AI (including LLMs and visual language models) to computer vision in sectors like hospitality and retail. Through Lenovo’s AI Innovators program, businesses can seamlessly integrate these technologies with their existing infrastructure.

AI-Driven Hospitality Experiences
To illustrate the potential of AI in hospitality, Lenovo and Centific demonstrated an avatar-powered concierge service at GTC. This interactive assistant offered real-time updates, guest preferences, and delay notifications. A separate visualization tool mapped guest movement to help optimize crowd flow, while additional systems monitored maintenance and energy use in real time to uncover cost-saving opportunities.

A Pivotal Moment for Hybrid AI
As AI continues to scale, enterprises require smarter, more streamlined methods to translate AI potential into practical outcomes. Lenovo and NVIDIA are leading this transition by co-developing advanced hybrid AI systems that convert data into impact across sectors. From customer service to backend operations, their integrated approach is helping organizations around the world unlock the value of AI at speed and scale.

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