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Hanshow has recruited Klaus Smets as Vice President for the DACH region. The former Toshiba managing director is to drive the growth of the retail technology and ESL supplier in the region. Retail Optimiser spoke to him about the market for retail digitisation.

Ikea is modernising order management and fulfilment with software from Made4net and is rolling it out worldwide. Ingka Holding had acquired the logistics specialist in May this year.

Since 1 June this year, Migros customers have been able to do their online shopping directly in the Migros app. The Swiss retail market leader fully integrated its online app into the Migros app at the end of May.

Aldi Süd is introducing reverse vending machines from Tomra for both disposable and reusable beverage containers in all its Austrian stores.

The number of retail outlets allowing customers to scan items while shopping continues to grow significantly worldwide. According to research by UK market research and consultancy firm Retail Banking Research (RBR), the number of stores rose to 57,000 last year.

Amazon is relying on AI to weed out damaged goods before they are shipped to customers. The e-commerce company is already using the inhouse developed solution in two of its fulfilment centres and plans to roll it out to ten more international facilities.

Louis Pion, the jewellery and watch specialist belonging to the French department store group Galeries Lafayette, has chosen Bayard's Byrd platform to receive quality-assured, validated product content from its suppliers, also for its online shop. The company is working closely with GS1 France, which is currently bringing the GDSN standard to the jewellery and watch industry.

After a three-year pilot project with the company Cooler Screens, US retail giant Kroger has decided to equip 500 of its stores with these digital doors on refrigerated cabinets. These run, among other things, advertising content from brand manufacturers, which 'Kroger Precision Marketing' of the retail company's in-house market research platform 84.51° serves up.

With the SmartID project, Fraunhofer institutes are developing a new type of labelling system with which products can be clearly verified and authenticated via smartphone.

US grocery company Save Mart has converted a closed store of its Lucky banner operation into a fully automated micro fulfilment centre (MFC) with robots from start-up Fulfil Solutions.