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Esselunga has opened a 600 square metre test centre in Milan with a Grab & Go store and a cafeteria to enable agile testing of technologies and design concepts. The Italian retail company is testing a scanless store in its Esselunga Lab, which is equipped with technology from Israeli provider Trigo.

Ahold Delhaize, Tesco, Canadian Sobeys (Empire Company) and South African Shoprite Group have joined the venture capital activities of the Australian Woolworths Group. Under the name W23 Global, the companies have founded a new venture capital company based in London. Woolworths Australia has been investing in retail technology start-ups under the name W23 since 2019. The companies now want to…

For a long time, it was the taboo subject number one in the retail technology industry. Whether Amazon, Tesco, Aldi Nord, Aldi Süd or Rewe Group: nobody wanted to talk about the question of how much manual intervention in low-wage countries is involved in the shopping processes in their scanless stores. Now it's suddenly in the public media: Has Amazon…

Innovative hardware is a prerequisite for effective processes. According to the EHI study POS Systems 2024, 80 per cent of respondents plan to change their checkout hardware in the next two years. Almost a quarter want to completely replace their checkout hardware. Printing in particular now offers new potential for saving time. This is because the new CT-S801III and CT-S851III…

Rewe Group's Billa has equipped all of its approximately 160 stores in Bulgaria with electronic shelf labels (ESLs) from VusionGroup. In Bulgaria, Billa has installed the ESLs on rails from HL Display with the help of Display Bulgaria.

British footwear retailer Dune London uses OneStock's order management system to enable ship-from-store. The retailer introduced the cloud-based system in October 2023 as part of a comprehensive omnichannel strategy to optimise and improve large areas of its business operations.

Rossmann is going to use Symphony AI, the store-specific space and shelf planning system that has proven its worth in Germany, for its planned expansion in Spain. The drugstore operator is already forecasting the order quantities of its stores there in the same way as in its home country with Relex. Rossmann has only been represented in Spain since July…

Since October last year, the retailer Feneberg, which is affiliated with Edeka Südbayern, has been testing an unstaffed mini-store equipped with self-checkout terminals in Oberstaufen, Bavaria. Customers gain access to the Fene concept store via a card access system from shopfitting specialist Wanzl. Purchases can only be paid for cashless at Pyramid self-checkouts, which the technology provider developed according to…

The textile manufacturer Stichd, which specialises in fan articles, is operating its new Formula One merchandising stores with POS software from Retail 7. The Puma subsidiary has recently started selling fan products in pop-up stores at the Formula One racetracks. By using Retail 7's POS software, Stichd aims to optimise the sales processes in the official merchandising stores.

Sopharma Trading has opted for GK's POS platform for its brick-and-mortar stores and online pharmacies. The company, which is one of the largest healthcare providers in Bulgaria, is using the new solution to close data gaps between its stores and its SAP merchandise management system.