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Lidl is equipping its fruit and vegetable departments with camera-based, AI-supported scales from Mettler Toledo that automatically recognise loose items. With this step, Schwarz Group's discount retail division is promoting a seamless self-scanning journey for its customers in the fresh produce department. Lidl has already equipped around 250 stores across Germany with two scales per store in most case.

Aldi Nord expanded its app-based customer loyalty programme to the whole of Belgium back in July. The discounter is relying on solution GK Engage from its POS software provider GK Software. This raises the question: will self-scanning with the Aldi Nord app finally become a reality?

Popken Fashion Group has been optimising its online prices with GK Air, the cloud-based AI solution for dynamic pricing, for two years – with noticeable success: the family business specialising in plus-size fashion has not only increased its margin, but has also been able to reduce the manual effort required for price adjustments during end-of-season sales by around seventy per…

No Frills, the discount banner of Canadian retail group Loblaw, is testing self-scanning via app. At three No Frills stores in Toronto, users of the Loblaw Loyalty App PC Optimum can scan their purchases as they shop and check out faster. Under the name Pcogo, the Loblaw Digital Team has integrated Shopreme's white label solution into its app using the…

The leading German drugstore operator is paving its store network with self-checkouts. 3,000 devices from Pan Oston are already in place at dm stores and the rollout is continuing at full speed. While the success of the ongoing introduction of devices from Dutch specialist Pan Oston is exceeding all expectations, self-scanning with shoppers smartphones is as good as dead at…

Albert, the Czech banner operation of Ahold Delhaize, has implemented Mettler Toledo's AI-powered solution FreshAI at all its attended checkouts. The company is also testing the technology at self-checkout terminals in five pilot stores. Albert's employees and customers should be able to identify products without barcodes more quickly using image recognition.

In Canada and the US, Amazon is testing smart delivery glasses for its drivers designed to enhance the tracking and efficiency of its delivery operations. The wearable technology, which is currently tested by hundreds of drivers, aims to enable a fully hands-free, digitally assisted delivery process.

Dutch textile discounter Zeemann has implemented Manhattan Active Warehouse Management at its distribution centre at the company’s headquarters in Alphen aan den Rijn, in the province of South Holland. The cloud-based solution replaces a 25-year-old, in-house developed Warehouse Management System (WMS), which was no longer able to meet the rapidly growing market requirements.

Edeka Group has reorganised the management of its IT subsidiary. As The Retail Optimiser has learned from the company's consultants, Benjamin Beinroth is joining the management board of Edeka IT today.

VusionGroup has secured a significant stake in Yagora, a provider of shopper insights for category management and shopper activation via retail media that is highly relevant to the consumer goods industry. Until September 2020, Yagora appeared as GPS Dataservice and made a name for itself in the industry with top customers such as dm Drogeriemarkt, Ferrero, Radeberger Gruppe and Kellogg's…