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Fressnapf is significantly expanding its AI-based chatbot for staff, ‘Ask MIA’. Europe’s leading specialist retailer of pet supplies has entered into a development partnership with GK for this purpose. As a first step, the two companies ...

Footwear retailer Deichmann is rolling out a standardised network infrastructure in partnership with Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica. Within a year, the company aims to equip 4,000 stores worldwide with Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology. This shall provide its retail outlets with reliable and fast access to standardised digital applications. The contracting parties explain this in the Handelsblatt podcast ‘So…

The Finiper retail group is rolling out more than 700 Datalogic Joya smart handheld scanners across five of its Iper La Grande i stores in northern Italy. With this move, the Italian retailer is scaling up a self-scanning solution that customers continue to use as a portable handheld device, but which, for the first time, can also monitor shopping trolleys…

Amazon is offering other retail companies the use of its AI shopping assistant on their websites. It will be interesting to see who actually has enough confidence to run their most sensitive data on the technology of their biggest competitor.

British retailer Asda plans to roll out Ocado’s Smart Platform starting in early 2027 to modernise the picking of online orders in its stores and dark stores, as well as its delivery planning.

A few months after implementing the new Auto Store system, Toom shows itself satisfied with the automation of the small parts warehouse at the Rodgau fulfilment centre. According to the DIY store operator, the system has been running smoothly since going live in March.

Parfois is strengthening its retail technology foundation through a new project to migrate its merchandising ecosystem to Oracle Retail Cloud, supporting the retailer’s continued international growth and operational agility.

Monoprix, the French urban supermarket chain owned by Casino Group, has selected commerce media platform Criteo to develop and commercialise its new digital retail media proposition, trade publication LSA reports. The partnership will cover advertising displayed across Monoprix’s websites and mobile applications including sponsored product listings.

Dunnhumby has appointed Jamie Samaha as Chief Executive Officer. He joins from Reward, where he most recently served as CEO. Prior to that, he worked at fintech firm Prezzee and Mastercard, amongst others.

Swedish Vertiseit group has acquired digital signage specialist Scala. Until recently, Scala was part of US retail media group Stratacache. Its British subsidiaries, Stratacache UK and PRN UK, have been in insolvency and liquidation proceedings since the beginning of May. Furthermore, there are clear signs of widespread financial difficulties within the Stratacache Group. The Retail Optimiser reported.