Annette Böhm

Following a training phase, the traditional butchery company Kübler has adapted its 24/7 store 'Kübler Go' in the German city of Stuttgart to AI-based Grab&Go technology from Walkout Technologies, a subsidiary of the Digital Convenience Group. Previously, customers in the store of the family-owned company at Rotebühlstraße 69 in Baden-Württemberg's capital scanned their goods themselves and paid at self-checkout terminals…

Reitan Convenience Sweden is expanding its use of Relex solutions. So far, the Swedish convenience store specialist has evaluated and optimised the advertising campaigns of its Pressbyrån and 7-Eleven banners with Relex's solution. Now, Reitan Retail's Swedish subsidiary wants to make even greater use of Relex's AI-based solutions and, from a single source, also improve the forecasting of promotions, reduce…

Auchan Polska has opened its first autonomous mini-store in Warsaw under the banner name Auchan Go. The store's technology is provided by Trigo. The fact that shoppers only register at the entrance terminal with a common bank card and their phone number instead of having to identify themselves via a retailer app and QR codes is new for the Israeli…

Unicoop Firenze has chosen SES Imagotag solutions to gain reliable in-store data and optimise business processes. Using electronic shelf labels, connected cameras and sensors, the Italian retailer wants to centrally measure product availability of goods on the shelf with SES Imagotag's AI-based Vusion platform solution.

Fujitsu today announced its decision to make a voluntary public takeover offer to GK shareholders to acquire all shares outstanding of GK. The two companies have entered into a Business Combination Agreement. Rainer Gläß, GK's co-founder and CEO, will leave the company as a member of the Executive Board in the event of a successful takeover bid.

For the 16th time, EHI Retail Institute this week announced the winners of the Retail Technology Awards Reta. The eight-member international jury of the award includes Retail Optimiser editors Björn Weber and Joachim Pinhammer as well as the publisher of the British trade magazine Retail Technology, Miya Knights.

SES Imagotag plans to acquire French start-up In-the-Memory, founded by former Emnos directors Maxime Brunet and Alexis Mau. Both companies recently signed a letter of intent. With this move, SES Imagotag is sharpening its expertise in data management and analytics of in-store data.

Retail company Georg Jos. Kaes has opened its first V-mini store without staffed checkouts in Kaufbeuren. For this purpose, DRS AG has further developed its POS software solution to be used on self-checkouts, which can also be used as attended checkouts if required. The hardware concept of the checkout comes from Wanzl.

Norwegian DIY retailer Maxbo has signed a contract with StrongPoint to roll out Electronic Shelf Price Labels (ESLs) from Pricer across its stores. The DIY retailer, which is part of Løvenskiold Handel, will start the installation in the first quarter of 2023 and plans to have it completed by the end of 2024.

This week, Edeka Südwest opened a combination of its Italophile deli concept Sapori d'Italia with a fully automated 24/7 store in Offenburg. Knapp robotics picks everyday items in the back of the vending area and makes them available to customers at a counter.