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…
Read more >>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.
Read more >>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…
Read more >>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.
Read more >>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…
Read more >>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.
Read more >>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…
Read more >>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.
Read more >>At the Rewe Center in Cologne-Bickendorf of independent merchants Daniel and Boris Dugandzic, Rewe Digital has installed special tablet computers on around half of all 220 shopping trolleys to guide customers through the store. However, the devices are currently not used for self-scanning, for which customers still have to use the Zebra devices or their own smartphone.
Read more >>Following a successful trial in its newly opened flagship store in Mannheim, furniture discounter Poco is planning to start marketing advertising content in its stores with innovative displays from VusionGroup (formerly SES Imagotag). The content management platform for this was developed by the furnishing specialists, who are part of the Austrian MW Holding of the XXXLutz Group, together with LN…
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