Björn Weber

SAP has opened a new retail technology test store on the grounds of its headquarters in Walldorf. What may surprise visitors from the retail industry is the use of RFID on individual grocery items in SAP's new test store.

Vienna-based fiscalisation specialist Fiskaly has acquired its competitor Deutsche Fiskal from GK. Deutsche Fiskal will continue to operate in the same way under the new ownership. Deutsche Fiskal's customers include almost all major German retail companies, including those that do not use GK at their checkouts.

Following an extensive selection process, Hagebau has chosen the price optimisation solution from French specialist Mercio. The building materials and DIY cooperative will use the platform to optimise both its price image and profitability.

After a large-scale project spanning four years, Beeline Group has successfully completed the conversion of its merchandise management system from an in-house development to SAP S/4HANA. In this challenging project, the consultants from CAS AG were able to provide significant support with their in-depth knowledge and experience in the area of SAP CAR.

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.