Björn Weber

Footwear retailer Deichmann is testing mobile checkouts in its stores in Germany. The solution was developed by Gebit, the company's POS software supplier. The mobile checkout, which can be used to process card payments on the touchscreen without an additional PIN pad, runs on new Zebra handhelds implemented at Deichmann.

The eleventh largest textile retail company in Germany is pulling the plug on its SAP Retail project after a runtime of over 10 years: At the end of last year, Peek&Cloppenburg Düsseldorf decided to replace SAP completely with solutions from Oracle. The project to implement Oracle Retail as merchandise management system has already begun.

‘Aus Aldi Süd's IT wird Aldi DX, sonst ändert sich nix’, German speakers might say, referring to the old advertising slogan of the brand manufacturer Mars. And indeed, the new brand Aldi DX for Aldi Süd's IT, together with the slogan “Driving digital value”, primarily seeks to make the discounter giant more attractive to job applicants. But that's not all:…

Rewe Group's subsidiary Lekkerland has opened a first Rewe Ready store at the EnBW fast charging park near the Kamen motorway junction with AiFi technology. For two other Rewe Ready locations, Lekkerland is relying on technology from Latebird and on smart fridges from the Portuguese specialist Reckon.ai.

French retail group Les Mousquetaires is testing Shopic's clip-on devices in an Intermarché store in Provins, France. The devices, which can be easily attached to any standard trolley, is powered by computer vision technology, transforming it into a smart cart capable of recognising items without the need for manual scanning. Consultants of Capgemini are part of the project team at…

US petrol station and convenience store operator RaceTrac is implementing GK to improve its operations and customer loyalty. Yesterday, at the EHI Technology Days in Bonn (Germany), Tyler Grubbs, RaceTracs’s Executive Director of Digital and Store Technology, shared insights into the radical techology revamp of the petrol station group.

Tom Tailor is using 7Learnings' AI-based solution to optimise pricing, initially in its online store. The project was presented today at the EHI Technology Days in Bonn.

Aldi Nord is testing a modified self-checkout strategy at three stores in Germany. Similar to its competitor Lidl, the discounter is using GK's software consistently for both manned checkouts and self-checkouts. The discounter also uses the same hardware components in the checkout lanes as at the self-checkouts. The counter for the current self-checkout prototype is supplied by shopfitting specialist Kesseböhmer.

After years of testing different systems and processes in Portugal, the UK, France and the Netherlands, Lidl has now apparently found its way forward for Scan&Go: self-scanning is coming to Europe as a feature of Lidl Plus, the discounter's loyalty app.

The company behind the Enfore POS Software, which Fressnapf has been trying to implement since 2020, is insolvent. Enfore founder Marco Börries no longer belongs to the Fressnapf board of directors and Fressnapf is looking for a new point-of-sale software solution.