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With the help of SES Imagotag’s subsidiary Captana, independent Edeka shop owner Stephan Cunäus has increased the shelf availability at his E-Center Warnow Park in Rostock by three percent, he reported at the ECR Conference (ECR-Tag) in Frankfurt am Main last week. SES Imagotag and Captana, in interaction with cameras and ESLs, provide the required transparency.

Relex Solutions and supply chain visibility platform provider Fourkites have formed a partnership. Together, the solution providers will enable their customers to capture potential supply chain disruptions in real time.

Edeka Jäger at Stuttgart Airport allows customers to shop autonomously at night. Shoppers then gain access via a Wanzl card access system and pay cashless at self- checkouts from Diebold Nixdorf running POS software from GK. Owner Florian Jäger explained the project to The Retail Optimiser.

With the new name Iki Go, Rewe Group's Lithuanian retailer opened a fifth store with Pixevia's scanless technology in Vilnius today. Thus, Iki has already put more autonomous stores into operation than ...

For its efforts to get suitable product images for the target market Germany into the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN), Rewe Group won the ECR Award for 'Operational Excellence' this week together with the branded goods giants Mars and Procter & Gamble. The biggest challenge, however, may be that Germany's largest food retailer, Edeka Group, requires product images from its…

Takko Fashion digitalises its store processes with Apps4brands from Act'o-soft. The application runs on mobile devices from manufacturer Zebra Technologies. The rollout in Germany has been completed, and by the end of the year all international stores should also be equipped with the new solution.

French company Lapeyre is introducing Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs) from SES-imagotag not only to display extensive product information electronically to customers, but also to connect physical sales outlets with online sales channel in the sense of omnichannel retailing.

Wholesaler Lekkerland, which is part of Rewe Group, is adding smart fridges from Portuguese specialist Reckon.ai to its portfolio of smart store solutions …

Following a training phase, the traditional butchery company Kübler has adapted its 24/7 store 'Kübler Go' in the German city of Stuttgart to AI-based Grab&Go technology from Walkout Technologies, a subsidiary of the Digital Convenience Group. Previously, customers in the store of the family-owned company at Rotebühlstraße 69 in Baden-Württemberg's capital scanned their goods themselves and paid at self-checkout terminals…

Reitan Convenience Sweden is expanding its use of Relex solutions. So far, the Swedish convenience store specialist has evaluated and optimised the advertising campaigns of its Pressbyrån and 7-Eleven banners with Relex's solution. Now, Reitan Retail's Swedish subsidiary wants to make even greater use of Relex's AI-based solutions and, from a single source, also improve the forecasting of promotions, reduce…