Björn Weber

Björn Weber has been a journalist, analyst and consultant specialising in the retail and consumer goods industry for over 20 years. Prior to founding Fourspot, which is publishing The Retail Optimiser, Björn Weber headed the international analyst group LZ Retailytics. Previously, he was Research Director Retail Technology and Head of Planet Retail in Germany. Before that, Björn Weber was editor for IT & logistics topics at Lebensmittel Zeitung for eight years. Björn Weber is a member of the jury of the Retail Technology Award (Reta Europe) of the EHI. He is a regular speaker at events of the EHI, the NRF, industry media and the Consumer Goods Forum.
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BayWa and CAS AG offer retailers joint transparency in sustainability

BayWa and CAS AG are jointly offering their sustainability platforms to companies in the retail sector as a comprehensive solution package. The partnership combines BayWa's Combayn platform for regional environmental and compensation offers with CAS AG's Sustain:Data solution for transparent sustainability data in companies.

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Lidl optimises stock with Relex in further countries

Lidl is committed to use the forecasting and replenishment software from Relex Solutions in 14 countries. The goal is transparency and flexibility throughout the entire supply chain. The advantages are increased availability of goods as well as reduced inventories and fewer out-of-stocks.

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Landgard provides transparency for trade partners with CAS AG

Landgard has created a user-friendly online information platform for its business partners in the plant and flower trade, which makes it much easier for them to work with the leading German producer cooperative for flowers and plants as well as fruit and vegetables. The consultants from Hamburg-based CAS AG are behind the technology used and the implementation of the project.

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Douglas optimises supplier integration with Bayard’s Byrd

Douglas is set to optimise its product content consistently across stores and e-commerce using Bayard's Byrd platform. This will enable Europe's leading platform for premium beauty & health to achieve its aim of making the quality management of its product content more efficient and completing listings faster

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Lidl modernises POS software with GK

It is the largest POS software project in Europe to date: Lidl has once again chosen GK and will roll-out the Cloud4Retail platform of the Schöneck specialists in all 30 countries over the next few years. The largest banner operation of the European retail sector is thus enabling to operate the checkouts in the cloud and is simplifying the development…

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Combating retail food waste with system

Every year, almost 500,000 tonnes of food waste are caused in the retail sector in Germany alone, according to the UN Food Waste Index Report from last year. This is not only bad for the industry's image – the commercial damage caused by food being written off without sale is also immense. The problem has been recognised in retail companies,…

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Aldi Nord opens checkout-free store in Utrecht with Trigo

Aldi Nord has opened its Trigo technology-equipped store in Utrecht, the Netherlands, to everyone. After Tesco, Rewe and Edeka's Netto, the discount store operator is the fourth European retail group to test shopping without scanning with the technology of the Israeli start-up in real-life use. Unlike Rewe and Netto, but like Tesco in London, Aldi Nord in Utrecht is not…

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Denner connects suppliers with Bayard’s Byrd platform

Denner has started to enable its suppliers to deliver their product content via industry-wide networks such as the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN) and Swiss Trustbox. For this purpose, the discounter, which belongs to Migros Group, uses Bayard's Byrd platform, which it has fully integrated into its Syndigo (Riversand) system.

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Rewe equips second store with Trigo technology

Rewe Group has equipped a significantly larger supermarket in Berlin with Trigo's scanless technology. Soon, all customers in the reopened supermarket in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district will be able to shop without having their goods scanned. In June 2021, Rewe Group had participated in the financing of Trigo.

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GS1 Switzerland builds product content platform with Bayard

The GS1 organisation of Switzerland is tackling the issue of industry-wide product data management in a new way. Based on the Byrd platform from Cologne-based specialists Bayard, it will build a product content hub that will replace the current Trustbox solution, but also offer an independent Swiss connection to the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN).

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