Founded by Sam Walton of Walmart fame in 1983 and is a division of Walmart, Sam’s Club is a popular membership warehouse club housing numerous items, such as foods, jewelry, books, and office chairs. Sam’s Club has recently made strategic use of mobile technology as a means of replacing the traditional retail experience with increased convenience for costumers. Since the launch of their mobile app in the 2010s, it has many features, according to Belic (2010), such as fast store location through GPS, and eValues, special discounts supplied by membership cards and notify users of any new offers being present. Moreover, as of 2024, Sam’s Club has made a new feature for the app called Scan & Go, which lets users use the mobile app to scan items the retail store provides and as Carbonaro (2025) notes, all purchases are done through the app in real-time and then scanned by cameras to confirm if the purchase was legitimate, much like how a retailer uses a POS (point of scale) Scanner to...
Part of Apple’s M series of chips, the M1 has been integrated into many Apple devices since 2020, replacing the older Intel processors in their products since 2006. The M1 is unique, as it fuses important hardware assets such as GPU and CPU to a singular silicon chip, which saves space and allows swift performance. Additionally, the M1’s UMA (Unified Memory Architecture) allows the chip’s components to share memory from all sides and is faster and more power-efficient than the older Intel ones. Moreover, a distinct engine, called the Neural Engine, is designed to handle numerous demanding tasks simultaneously while saving power, and Onyeanuna (2024) notes that it can withstand 11 trillion ongoing operations every second, such as multiple tabs and video editing software with no lag in performance. Like the iPhone series, the M1 has different versions, like the M1 Pro or M1 Ultra, which beef up the hardware to perform even better with demanding tasks, such as higher memory storag...