Joachim Pinhammer

The retail company Georg Jos. Kaes is piloting a project in one of its V-Markt stores in Northern Munich to see how redesigning the checkout area can improve customer experience and efficiency at the checkout. From February to April 2026, RNG member Georg Jos. Kaes will be testing various stationary and mobile self-checkout systems at the Munich location with technology…

US supermarket operator Kroger has announced to close three of eight logistics facilities for its online business, which are equipped with Ocado automation technology, in January 2026. Other locations are also under review. However, the company intends to maintain those in regions with high demand. In addition, the company is stepping up its collaboration with delivery services Instacart, Doordash and…

Rossmann has commissioned Diebold Nixdorf (DN) to provide managed services for operation and monitoring of its store technologies. The implementation of the Service Now platform in September this year is intended to digitise and simplify internal service processes between stores and headquarters.

No Frills, the discount banner of Canadian retail group Loblaw, is testing self-scanning via app. At three No Frills stores in Toronto, users of the Loblaw Loyalty App PC Optimum can scan their purchases as they shop and check out faster. Under the name Pcogo, the Loblaw Digital Team has integrated Shopreme's white label solution into its app using the…

Dutch textile discounter Zeemann has implemented Manhattan Active Warehouse Management at its distribution centre at the company’s headquarters in Alphen aan den Rijn, in the province of South Holland. The cloud-based solution replaces a 25-year-old, in-house developed Warehouse Management System (WMS), which was no longer able to meet the rapidly growing market requirements.

Tesco wants to make shopping in its stores easier for people who are blind or partially sighted. To this end, the British retailer launched a six-month pilot programme in collaboration with the Be My Eyes community on World Sight Day. The Be My Eyes app provides customers with support while shopping and allows them to contact Tesco employees who can…

In its store in Bad Feilnbach, southeast of Munich, Edeka merchant Prechtl has modernised the checkout area with two Vision Hybrid systems from Swedish shopfitting and retail technology specialist Itab. With this solution, which combines traditional staffed checkouts with self-checkouts, the independent retailer aims to offer its customers a flexible and efficient checkout experience.

Rewe is once again piloting deployment of delivery robots from US specialist Starship. Customers in the vicinity of the Rewe store at Holsteinischer Kamp 53 in Hamburg's Barmbek district can have their grocery orders delivered by the self-driving vehicles. The company had already tested them in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel over a period of six months in 2023.

Carrefour Italy has selected forecasting and replenishment software from Relex. With the move, the retailer, that French Carrefour Group is currently selling to Italian food manufacturer New Princes, aims to reduce inventory while increasing product availability and better adapting its food and non-food assortments to local needs.

Amazon plans to close all its 19 Amazon Fresh stores in the UK. The US online giant announced this in a blog post on Tuesday this week. This also means the end of Just Walk Out technology in larger stores in the United Kingdom. Competitor Sainsbury's had already replaced it with self-checkouts at its London Holborn Circus store in February.