Björn Weber

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.

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…

While Lidl has already implemented the new self-checkouts throughout Romania, the major roll-out in Germany, as well as in other countries such as Spain and Italy, will apparently start in Lidl's next financial year, which begins in March and ends in February 2025.

Scottish retail co-operative Scotmid has extended its contract with Retail Insight to use its cloud-based WasteInsight software to reduce food waste in its 185 convenience stores.

Aldi Süd is testing the use of a technology that makes the scanning of goods obsolete for the first time in the USA. However, for its Aldi Go store in the city of Aurora near Chicago in the US state of Illinois, the discount giant is not relying on AiFi technology to automatically recognise purchases, as in London, but on…

The technology provider SES Imagotag, which specialises in brick-and-mortar retail, has changed its name to Vusion Group. The company will continue to use its previous name for its portfolio of electronic shelf labels (ESLs).

Rewe Markt, the supermarket division of Rewe Group in Germany, has announced that it will be equipping three more stores with Pick&Go technology in the coming months: in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. Rewe already operates such stores with Trigo technology in Berlin, Cologne and Munich. One of the stores to be added in the spring will be the largest scanless store…

Online supermarket Flaschenpost, which is part of the Oetker Group, has opted for Bayard's Byrd technology to receive its suppliers' product content more efficiently, more completely, with higher data quality and to integrate it into its systems. Bayard has been majority-owned by the Markant Group since February of this year.

Africa’s largest retailer, The Shoprite Group, is currently upgrading its entire POS software architecture for around 2,500 stores with GK OmniPOS.

Berlin-based retail and hospitality location management specialist Targomo has been acquired by Casafari, a real estate platform hitherto active in Southern Europe. Targomo will continue to operate out of Berlin under its own name and will be able to use Casafari's wealth of data for its clients.