Björn Weber

Carrefour is testing new shelf layouts in collaboration with CPG companies on its category management platform from In The Memory (Memory for short), which has been part of the VusionGroup since February 2023.

Morrisons has decided to install electronic shelf labels from VusionGroup across all its 497 supermarkets in the coming year. In total, the British retailer has ordered more than 10.8 million labels from the technology vendor.

Walmart plans to equip Bluetooth tags from Wiliot to 90 million of its pallets by end of 2026. It is the largest rollout of this technology known globally. The decision was preceded by years of testing by the largest retailer of the world.

Jerónimo Martins retail banner Pingo Doce has decided for Symphony AI’s Cinde platform for its Category Management. The Portuguese retailer is replacing static reports with real-time, prescriptive insights that fuel sharper execution and stronger supplier alignment.

For Belgium, Aldi Nord has chosen SoluM. The discount giant is currently still in negotiations with further technology providers for other countries.

With its Connected Store in GS1 Germany's Knowledge Centre, VusionGroup demonstrates how its technology optimises brick-and-mortar retail through the interaction of real-time data, AI and IoT.

Selgros, the cash and carry market operator belonging to Coop Switzerland, has brought the Supersmart solution for validation after self-scanning to Germany. The two Selgros stores in Neu-Isenburg and Braunschweig have already been equipped with the solution, which uses weight data and intelligent analyses to verify self-scanning.

The independent Edeka retailer Paschmann from the Rhine-Ruhr region has equipped its self-checkouts in a first store with Diebold Nixdorf's Vision Recognition solution to prevent fraud. Its supermarket on Suitbertusstraße in Düsseldorf is the first store in Germany to use Diebold Nixdorf's Vynamic Smart Vision Shrink Reduction solution, which was originally developed by British start-up SeeChange.

Fishbull Franz Fischer has introduced digital receipts in its almost 350 Sonderpreis DIY stores with Anybill and Zucchetti.

Following the insolvency of NumberFour AG, the company behind Butlers' Enfore POS solution, in October 2024, Butlers had to introduce new POS software at very short notice. The home accessories, decoration and gifts specialist succeeded in doing so with a solution from Retail7, a subsidiary of GK.