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French lingerie retailer Etam Groupe has deployed the Product Information Management (PIM) solution from Austrian software provider Pimcore to improve the completeness, consistency and visibility of product data across its operations. Datasolution helped implementing the solution.

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has appointed John Hunt as Chief Digital and Technology Officer. He is set to move from Woolworths Australia to the British retail group this summer to head up the Digital, Data and Technology division.

CAS AG has given its RealTime Data Hub (RDH) – a data management and portal solution popular in the retail sector – a new home, where it will be developed with a focused approach and marketed independently of the consulting business. Led by managers from ...

Danish furniture retailer Jysk is significantly expanding its partnership with Vusion. By 2027, the provider of AI-powered digitalisation solutions is supposed to equip a total of 2,500 Jysk stores across Europe with electronic shelf labels featuring the latest cloud-based technology. The company will also migrate its existing local installations to the Vusion Cloud.

Tesco has signed a multi-year contract with Hanshow for the supply of electronic shelf labels, according to Retail Week. Within two years, the British market leader plans to roll out the Chinese supplier’s labels to all of its approximately 3,000 UK stores – across all retail formats. The rollout is set to begin at a Tesco Express convenience store and…

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.