To See Where Retail Stores Are Heading, Look to China By Brad Loftus , Peter Burggraaff , Bill Urda , and Allison Zeller

While all eyes are on Amazon Go, China’s two biggest e-commerce retailers, Alibaba and JD.com, have been moving much faster, and at a larger scale, with their own digital and automated store concepts. While Amazon is only just beginning to roll out Amazon Go, Alibaba already has 65 of its Hema grocery stores up and running and is slated to bring that number to 100 by the end of 2018.

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