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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.

Kesko Senukai will equip all 94 of its Senukai-DIY stores with electronic shelf labels from Vusion. The leading DIY retailer in the three Baltic states, which is operated as a joint venture between Finnish retail giant Kesko and the Rakauskas family, is also testing Vusion's Captana solution for automatic inventory control using shelf cameras and computer vision.

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.

Amazon is closing all of its physical Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh retail outlets. Other retailers are also backing away from scanless stores. The technologies had fallen into disrepute after it became apparent that they did not always work automatically.

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.

Drugstore operator dm is planning an additional small item distribution centre at its logistics site in Wustermark near Berlin, which will use robotics from Austrian specialist TGW Logistics for picking. With the Pickcenter Rovoflex, TGW offers a new type of automatic picking system with six-axis robots that continuously improves its own work through AI.

With the rebranding to Vusion (without “Group”), the specialist for the digitalisation of physical retail outlets wants to herald a new era: instead of just implementing the Connected Store as before, Vusion now wants to enable retailers to create the AI-native Store.

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…

At the end of last year, Ocado Group has rolled off its mutual exclusivity agreements with retail companies. This applies to most countries where the group has currently implemented its fulfilment technologies, including the USA. The move allows the company to once again offer its automation solutions in many of the world's largest food markets.

Following the successful introduction of GK OmniPOS in its vast store network in South Africa in record time in 2024, the Shoprite Group succeeded in seamlessly migrating its international store network to its new POS software in 2025. In just eight months, Africa's largest retail company was able to implement the solution from Fujitsu-owned specialist GK in five additional countries:…