Björn Weber

Retailers prefer to use GK Software for new POS software installations globally. If restaurants, hotels and petrol stations are also taken into account, NCR is at the top of the list of new software installations globally. In the field of POS hardware, HP has worked its way to the top of worldwide installations, according to new study from RBR. The…

In less than a year, Rimi Baltic, a grocery retailer belonging to the Swedish ICA Group, has switched its pricing to the optimisation solution from Revionics, a pricing specialist recently acquired by Aptos. This has increased sales of its 280 stores in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Start-up Campo of former Tank&Rast manager Carlo Caldi will open its first fully automated, round-the-clock grocery store under the name Typy in Düsseldorf's Medienhafen on Wednesday this week. Convenience goods will come from local caterer Broich. Typy was realised with robotic systems from Smark.

Hagebau goes into the cloud: With GK Software, Infor and Microsoft, the building materials and DIY group Hagebau is building its merchandise and workforce management as well as its store solutions completely on a Software-as-a-Service infrastructure. At the EHI Technology Days, other retailers also report on their plans to use cloud solutions for core applications of their business.

Austrian beverage group Ottakringer has automated the data supply of the retail trade from its Akeneo PIM system with the help of Bayard Consulting and switched to the GDSN data pool b-synced.

Again, there are changes in the market of system providers for master data management in the consumer goods industry: Bayard Consulting Group acquires the content syndication platform SyncManager from the US-based GDSN data pool operator 1WorldSync.

French retail group Les Mousquetaires will manage the entire supply chain of its Intermarché and Netto banners with Symphony RetailAI's Forecasting and Replenishment Software Gold.

Rewe Group is semi-automating the creation of store-specific planograms with Relex. The project is part of the initiative of the Cologne-based retail group to localise its assortments data-driven based on regional shopper demand.

Whether they like it or not: German grocery retailers cannot avoid e-commerce. Amazon is not letting up. For the likes of Edeka, Rewe and Schwarz Group, it is worth looking at the French market. Through innovative concepts and investments into technology, companies such as Groupe Casino and E.Leclerc are confidently securing their business against Amazon.

At the beginning of next week, Lidl will officially launch its digital customer loyalty programme in Germany. With it, Europe's largest discounter has solved another problem: Lidl Plus offers the digital receipt.