Esselunga has opened a 600 square metre test centre in Milan with a Grab & Go store and a cafeteria to enable agile testing of technologies and design concepts. The Italian retail company is testing a scanless store in its Esselunga Lab, which is equipped with technology from Israeli provider Trigo.
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Sopharma Trading has opted for GK's POS platform for its brick-and-mortar stores and online pharmacies. The company, which is one of the largest healthcare providers in Bulgaria, is using the new solution to close data gaps between its stores and its SAP merchandise management system.
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The atmosphere was excellent last night at Dr Thompson’s Seifenfabrik in Düsseldorf: Top IT managers from Edeka Group, Tegut, Rewe Group, Schwarz Group, Douglas, Benetton and many more had every reason to celebrate with their technology providers. Yesterday, EHI Retail Institute honoured the winners of the Retail Technology Awards Reta for the 17th time as part of Eurocis 2024. The…
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Biedronka has already 15,000 self-checkouts in use. All devices are supplied by NCR Voyix. The discount chain of Portuguese retailer Jerónimo Martins, which operates in Poland, already has the self-checkouts from the US company in 87 per cent of its stores. The SCOs are equipped with AI-based article recognition and loss prevention systems.
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Netto opened its second Pick&Go store with technology from Israeli provider Trigo this week. Customers can shop in the 800 square metre store of the Edeka Group's discounter in Regensburg without a check-in and without having to scan goods.
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Carrefour has opened its first autonomous vending machine store at the headquarters of its Belgian unit in Zaventem. The 18 square metre shop near Brussels, called Carrefour BuyBye, is equipped with Smart Fridges.
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Swiss sportswear company On is implementing the cloud platform of Dutch RFID-specialist Nedap. With this step, On wants to be able to track every single item seamlessly – from the manufacturing process to the consumer – worldwide.
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7-Eleven Mexico has deployed Blue Yonder’s platform to optimise shelf placement and order quantities from a single source. The convenience store operator, which is present in 13 Mexican states, wants to use Blue Yonder’s AI-based planogram generator to optimise outlet orders on a store-specific basis to both increase the availability of products that are in high demand at a particular…
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Bershka is to introduce a virtual fitting room for its online shop with 3dlook, the Californian specialist for body scanning technology. The fashion label, which belongs to the Spanish Zara’s parent company Inditex, wants to drastically reduce the returns rate of its online shop with an AI-supported, virtual fitting room solution. Using photo-realistic technology, the aim is to make it…
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Lidl trials self-checkout terminals from Swiss hardware specialist 4POS in a store in Lingolsheim, France. Half of the six self-service terminals are equipped with cash modules from Glory and offer shoppers the opportunity to pay in cash. Lidl relies on software from GK for the self-checkouts, just as for the attended checkouts. The hardware components for the self-service terminals are…
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