Coop Sweden has decided to drive its unmanned Coop Mini stores and other outlets, which only partly operate without staff, using solutions from Swedish start-up Honestbox. The company plans to gradually convert its current total of 21 stores, operating 24 hours a day, to the new platform.
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Non-food discounter Tedi has commissioned Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions to provide Europe-wide field services. The company aims to ensure availability of IT systems at its more than 3,700 stores across 15 European countries. The technology partner promises rapid replacement of defective system components by the next working day.
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Drugstore operator dm is testing the processing of two-dimensional codes at the checkout in selected stores. The pilot project is set to provide important insights for the planned gradual replacement of barcodes with 2D codes using the new GS1 Digital Link standard. Beiersdorf's 8X4 brand deodorants are among the first products to be labelled according to the new identification standard.
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Edeka Hessenring is erecting its first automated central logistics hub near Melsungen. From mid-2029, the new distribution centre will supply more than 500 stores with a dry goods range of up to 16,500 items. As with four other Edeka regions, the technology will be supplied by intralogistics specialist Witron.
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Netto Marken-Discount is arming its roughly 4,400 stores with POS monitors for digital retail communication. Edeka Group's discount banner provides its stores with content for in-store advertising via media interface Prestige Enterprise from Online Software AG. With more than 7,000 screens, the company now operates one of the largest retail media networks in Germany.
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Spar Austria aims to operate its digital services on a uniform platform. To this end, the group’s in-house IT department Spar ICS has set up project Snowball. It is set to migrate business-critical applications to the geo-redundant Platform as a Service (PaaS) HPE Greenlake. The cloud platform from Hewlett Packard Enterprise will gradually replace Spar’s existing data centre infrastructure. The…
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Edeka Group has rolled out new pick-by-voice technology to the logistics centres from six of its seven regional companies. For order picking, employees now wear Lydia Voice Wear smart vests. Logistics solutions specialist Ehrhardt Partner Group (EPG) implemented both hardware and software.
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Longchamp is revamping its order management with solutions from omnichannel specialist OneStock. With this step, the French fashion company aims to optimise the customer journey across all sales channels and support its growth plans.
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JD Sports has signed a multi-year global Software-as-a-Service agreement with RFID specialist Checkpoint. The British sportswear retailer will initially use cloud-based RFID inventory management software ItemOptix at all its European stores, and later worldwide. With the move, JD Sports aims to increase product availability and make more accurate, data-driven decisions.
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Both Walmart and Carrefour announced this week that they are joining Google's new standard for agentic commerce, the Universal Commerce Protocol (UPC). The technology allows consumers to purchase products directly on Google's Gemini AI platform, for example, without having to switch to the retailer's website. At the NRF conference, which took place in New York City this week, Google Cloud…
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