Walmart is accelerating the digitalisation of its stores, with plans to install Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs) from VusionGroup in 2,300 stores by 2026. The move, described by Walmart as “game changing”, aims to boost staff productivity, increase stock accuracy and improve the customer experience.
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There is no doubt that the extent and manner in which people get around will change rapidly in the coming years, as will the way in which goods are transported. Filling station operators will have to adapt to this. The oil companies, like the food wholesalers that supply them, are aware that the rapid activation of new services requires a…
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Jet has chosen GK as software partner for its petrol stations. The oil company will be the first European adopter of the GK Drive solution, which is already being used in the USA by retailers with associated filling stations such as Hy-Vee. The first pilot trials are scheduled to be completed by 2025, with full roll-out across Europe planned for…
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Using Bayard's Byrd technology, the Douglas Group has optimised its master data procurement consistently across its bricks and mortar and e-commerce businesses. The solution enables Europe's leading omnichannel premium beauty provider to carry out automated quality checks of product content from its suppliers.
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In one of the largest technology projects in Europe, Aldi Nord has built a completely new SAP-based merchandise management IT system in the cloud under the decisive influence of Accenture consultants. However, the conversion of the first pilot region was anything but a success: the inventory record in the system no longer worked in the Dutch region Culemborg, resulting in…
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Groupe Casino has started to provide real-time data from its Captana system on product availability to suppliers of its banner operations Monoprix and Franprix via its supplier platform RelevanC.
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For a long time, it was the taboo subject number one in the retail technology industry. Whether Amazon, Tesco, Aldi Nord, Aldi Süd or Rewe Group: nobody wanted to talk about the question of how much manual intervention in low-wage countries is involved in the shopping processes in their scanless stores. Now it's suddenly in the public media: Has Amazon…
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Rewe Group's Billa has equipped all of its approximately 160 stores in Bulgaria with electronic shelf labels (ESLs) from VusionGroup. In Bulgaria, Billa has installed the ESLs on rails from HL Display with the help of Display Bulgaria.
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Rossmann is going to use Symphony AI, the store-specific space and shelf planning system that has proven its worth in Germany, for its planned expansion in Spain. The drugstore operator is already forecasting the order quantities of its stores there in the same way as in its home country with Relex. Rossmann has only been represented in Spain since July…
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Migros Group is now building its 'Logistics Data Marketplace' with the Norwegian platform technology provider Kezzler. The retail cooperative consistently follows the GS1 industry standard EPICS 2.0 for the data format, as the retail group also wants to make selected data accessible to external suppliers and logistics service providers via the platform.
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