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Drugstore retailer dm has equipped around 2,100 of its 4,036 stores across Europe with Samsung smartphones of the Galaxy A series. Almost all internal processes and tasks are now handled via the devices. Employees can access information about the products via an app on their smartphone and thus provide customers with better advice. Traditional store and merchandise management processes are…

Rewe Markt, the supermarket division of Rewe Group in Germany, has announced that it will be equipping three more stores with Pick&Go technology in the coming months: in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. Rewe already operates such stores with Trigo technology in Berlin, Cologne and Munich. One of the stores to be added in the spring will be the largest scanless store…

Bershka is to introduce a virtual fitting room for its online shop with 3dlook, the Californian specialist for body scanning technology. The fashion label, which belongs to the Spanish Zara’s parent company Inditex, wants to drastically reduce the returns rate of its online shop with an AI-supported, virtual fitting room solution. Using photo-realistic technology, the aim is to make it…

M-Preis is implementing Zebra's Workcloud Task Management software. The Austrian food retailer wants to digitally transform processes between head office and stores to better integrate employees, optimise stock levels and improve customer experience.

Bartels-Langness, short Bela, chooses Relex Solutions to increase its availability, reduce inventory and link its ordering and logistics processes. The company, who operates largely across northern Germany, will use the supply chain management solution for all 130 stores of its Famila and Markant banner operations as well as in its three logistics centres. Relex partner Wysupp will provide support for…

Online supermarket Flaschenpost, which is part of the Oetker Group, has opted for Bayard's Byrd technology to receive its suppliers' product content more efficiently, more completely, with higher data quality and to integrate it into its systems. Bayard has been majority-owned by the Markant Group since February of this year.

Lidl trials self-checkout terminals from Swiss hardware specialist 4POS in a store in Lingolsheim, France. Half of the six self-service terminals are equipped with cash modules from Glory and offer shoppers the opportunity to pay in cash. Lidl relies on software from GK for the self-checkouts, just as for the attended checkouts. The hardware components for the self-service terminals are…

Norway’s Norges Gruppen has selected Manhattan Associates’ warehouse management solution for its Meny supermarket banner operation. The retailer wants to better fulfil growing customer requirements in e-commerce. For the metropolis region of Oslo, it is currently building a fulfilment centre, scheduled to start operations in autumn 2024.

The world’s second largest supplier of POS hardware and market leader for self-checkout systems, NCR, has restructured itself. In October, the ATM business of the traditional cash register manufacturer from the USA was spun off into an independently listed company called NCR Atleos Corporation. Since then, the retail and hospitality division has been operating under the name NCR Voyix. The…

7-Eleven Japan plans to use generative AI for the introduction of new products in the future. Software from Open AI, Google and Stability AI is set to help reduce planning processes by up to 90 per cent. Deploying this technology in the area is new to the retail sector.