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British retailer Iceland is deploying AI-powered dynamic markdown technology from Retail Insight to reduce food waste and improve the sell-through of products approaching their expiry dates.

Morrisons has appointed Mohsen Ghasempour as its first Chief AI Officer. He will take up the newly created role on 1 October 2026 and report to CEO Rami Baitiéh. In the post, Mohsen Ghasempour will establish a central data science and AI function.

Since beginning of this week, Amazon has been blocking Meta’s new AI agent Muse from gaining access to its shopping pages. The company had previously tried in vain to persuade Facebook’s parent company to voluntarily refrain from allowing the bot to make purchases on behalf of consumers at its online shop. This highlights just how fiercely companies are fighting for…

Morrisons has announced that it will add a Shop-to-Light feature to its product finder in the coming weeks. Customers will then be able to use the Morrisons Now app to make the electronic shelf label of an item they are looking for flash.

Tesco plans to install payment and fuel dispenser technology from Vontier at its more than 700 petrol stations. To this end, the British retail market leader will use solutions from Vontier’s subsidiaries, Gilbarco Veeder-Root and Invenco. Gilbarco Veeder-Root's fuel dispenser controller is designed to work alongside networked outdoor payment terminals and Invenco applications.

Luis Lamshöft has joined Migros Supermarkt AG as Head of AI & Robotics Strategy. In 2024, the Migros Group consolidated key functions for all grocery stores across all its cooperatives within Migros Supermarkt AG. In his new role, Luis Lamshöft will also focus specifically on the automation of the Swiss market leader’s distribution centres.

Coopérative U has migrated its entire fleet of 19,541 checkouts to GK’s software. Internally, the French retail group refers to the new solution as Nemo. Coopérative U has replaced its Diebold Nixdorf software with GK.

Auchan Romania has launched a pilot with a smart cart clip-on solution at its Drumul Taberei hypermarket in Bucharest. According to information of The Retail Optimiser, the retailer is using hardware from Hanshow and software from Shopreme. The solution is available to Auchan loyalty programme members who have at least 1,000 loyalty points.

Yesterday, Rewe Group and Mars were jointly honoured with an ECR Award from GS1 Germany for their efforts to bring impulse items to self-checkouts. The partners received the award for their ‘European NextGen Checkout Project’ in the ECR Collaboration Excellence category.

Swiss market leader Migros has launched a new fulfilment centre for online orders in Regensdorf, featuring automation solutions from Knapp. The site will be able to process up to 7,500 orders per day in future. Migros Online will handle goods receipt, storage, order picking and dispatch in one location.