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Equipped with a new version of Trigo's technology, the Rewe Pick&Go store in Düsseldorf allows customers to shop scanless without registering. However, the store's second major innovation, the automatic weighing of fruit and vegetables as they are picked, was out of action this week.

At the Rewe Center in Cologne-Bickendorf of independent merchants Daniel and Boris Dugandzic, Rewe Digital has installed special tablet computers on around half of all 220 shopping trolleys to guide customers through the store. However, the devices are currently not used for self-scanning, for which customers still have to use the Zebra devices or their own smartphone.

Following a successful trial in its newly opened flagship store in Mannheim, furniture discounter Poco is planning to start marketing advertising content in its stores with innovative displays from VusionGroup (formerly SES Imagotag). The content management platform for this was developed by the furnishing specialists, who are part of the Austrian MW Holding of the XXXLutz Group, together with LN…

UK food brand Branston is putting the GS1 Digital Link QR code on its products to provide consumers with access to useful information. The company is using the platform of software specialist Orca Scan, which is integrated into the GS1 Resolver system.

Retail Insight has appointed Andy Brockway as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The move is part of Retail Insight's growth plans to accelerate the product roadmap and innovation strategy for its software solutions that help retailers and their suppliers realise the full potential of every store.

The grocery retailer Rimi Baltic, which is part of Swedish ICA Group, is now using the Symphony AI platform also to tailor assortment of its 308 stores precisely to the needs of its customers. The Baltic company has been using Symphony AI for store and shelf space optimisation since 2022 in order to increase the efficiency of its sales areas.

Edeka Zurheide is equipping its six stores in Düsseldorf and the northern Ruhr region with large-format digital screens from Digooh Media. So-called Digital City Light Posters (DCLP) serve as an advertising platform for brand manufacturers and local suppliers. Retailers are increasingly utilising them to promote sales and as an additional income source.

While Lidl has already implemented the new self-checkouts throughout Romania, the major roll-out in Germany, as well as in other countries such as Spain and Italy, will apparently start in Lidl's next financial year, which begins in March and ends in February 2025.

Scottish retail co-operative Scotmid has extended its contract with Retail Insight to use its cloud-based WasteInsight software to reduce food waste in its 185 convenience stores.

Lekkerland has deployed its so-called 'Smart Shop' concept in live operation for the first time. In the newly opened Rewe Ready container store at the EnBW loading park in Lichtenau, near Chemnitz in the German federal state of Saxony, the Rewe Group company implemented smart fridges from Portuguese specialist Reckon.ai.