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British grocery retailer Iceland Foods selects American supplier Stratacache to deploy advanced digital display, content management and sensor-based analytics technology. The rollout will span 766 locations across both Iceland frozen food stores and The Food Warehouse supermarkets.

Monolith Group's retail banner operation Mix Markt, which specialises in Eastern European products, has installed Mettler-Toledo's AI-supported FreshAI article recognition system. At a location in Karlsruhe, the vision recognition solution from the weighing technology specialist is helping staff at the attended checkouts to recognise fresh items without barcodes more quickly.

The companies 4POS (Switzerland) and Pan Oston (Netherlands), which joint forces Pan Oston Holding, supplied more self-checkouts to retailers in German-speaking countries in 2024 than all other suppliers combined, according to Datos Insights. Diebold Nixdorf ranked second among suppliers of self-checkouts, followed by Swedish shopfitting and checkout giant Itab, which secured third place.

Carrefour will introduce Vusion's platform in all of its hypermarkets and supermarkets in France. The French retail giant will be the third major retailer after Walmart in the United States and dm Drogeriemarkt in Germany to use Vusion's EdgeSense technology.

Netto Marken-Discount is arming its roughly 4,400 stores with POS monitors for digital retail communication. Edeka Group's discount banner provides its stores with content for in-store advertising via media interface Prestige Enterprise from Online Software AG. With more than 7,000 screens, the company now operates one of the largest retail media networks in Germany.

Bartels-Langness intends to enable payment directly at the Snapcart system, which Bela IT developed in collaboration with Shopreme and Hanshow. A development by Shopreme will also soon enable customers to upload handwritten shopping lists onto the smartcarts.

As CEO of GK, Michael Scheibner regularly talks to the top executives of the world's largest retail companies and is familiar with many of their strategies. In the run-up to EuroShop in Düsseldorf, he shared his thoughts with Björn Weber, whom he has known well for 16 years.

Belgian non-food retailer Extra Shop is digitally transforming its stores and will be using Vusion's platform and electronic shelf labels in the future. With the company's decision to introduce the solutions in 40 of its stores, the number of Belgian retailers using Vusion has risen to a total of 1,700.

Spar Austria aims to operate its digital services on a uniform platform. To this end, the group’s in-house IT department Spar ICS has set up project Snowball. It is set to migrate business-critical applications to the geo-redundant Platform as a Service (PaaS) HPE Greenlake. The cloud platform from Hewlett Packard Enterprise will gradually replace Spar’s existing data centre infrastructure. The…

This week, the retail company Georg Jos. Kaes began its announced trial of various checkout methods with Wanzl, Shopreme, DRS, and Zebra at its V-Mart in the Euro-Industriepark in Munich. The Retail Optimiser was there for the premiere.