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Relex has acquired Ida, the French platform provider specialising in store ordering optimisation for loose products such as fruit, vegetables, bakery, meat, seafood and prepared foods. French retail groups such as Auchan, Coopérative U, Naturalia, Biocoop and the Carrefour-Franchise Provencia are using the platform Ida. The Retail Optimiser reported on its use at Coopérative U. The acquisition complements Relex’ order…

Norwegian retail company Coop Norge is expanding its fully automated picking system in its logistics centre with Witron during ongoing operations. The 84,000-square-meter facility near Oslo's Gardermoen Airport is to be expanded with twelve additional Case Order Machines (COM) from Witron.

Waitrose wants to streamline cash handling at its supermarkets using systems from specialist Glory. The British retailer will install a total of 285 CI-100X cash recyclers in the back offices of its larger stores. The rollout has already begun.

Kaufland’s International Auditing Department has developed an app with AI to make its freshness checks more efficient. The application helps the auditors of Schwarz Group’s subsidiary to check the internal processes of the stores in order to ensure customer satisfaction. The fact that specialist departments are developing solutions themselves using standard AI tools has the potential to shake up the…

The leading German drugstore operator has replaced its Tibco middleware with Solace's Event Mesh platform. In October, dm was able to completely shut down its Tibco EMS system. Now, dm is in the process of introducing Solace into its logistics operations as well, replacing Oracle AQ middleware.

Independent Edeka retailer Alexander Ristow from Schleswig-Holstein uses a fully automated cooking system from Goodbytz to prepare fresh, hot meals. The cooking robot has been operating at an Edeka store in Kiel-Heikendorf since the end of November. This is the first time that Germany’s largest retail company has used this type of technology. The autonomous kitchen system, developed by Hamburg-based…

French retailer Auchan is accelerating its supply chain modernisation with the deployment of 50,000 IBM Smart Green Pallets across its national logistics network. The aim is to deliver real-time visibility across the supply chain.

Czech online supermarket operator Rohlik Group is equipping its fulfilment centres in Germany and Austria with AI-driven robotic arms from Sereact. In a first step, the Stuttgart-based robotics specialist is installing a total of 24 of the systems at the Knuspr site in Berlin and at Gurkerl in Vienna. The further rollout will then serve Knuspr in Frankfurt/Main and other…

Alex Schwald will take on the position of Senior Director of IT at Takko Fashion, The Retail Optimiser learnt. He is moving from MediaMarktSaturn to the radically verticalised fashion retailer. His exact start date is not yet clear but will be in February or March 2026.

Trouble for online shops: This morning, customers were again temporarily unable to access retail websites. Rewe Group's online shop was affected, as were Oetker's Flaschenpost, Knuspr and many others. Amazon and the online shops of Wolt and Bofrost, on the other hand, remained accessible. At 10:15 am, however, the problem seemed to have been resolved. Presumably, the internet service Cloudflare…