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British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has unveiled an AI-powered Wine Finder, designed to enhance the wine shopping experience for its customers. The tool is accessible via the retailer’s online platform and in twenty stores across the UK, where dedicated QR codes facilitate its use.

Norwegian cooperative Coop Norge has chosen Omnium as its order management system (OMS) provider as part of its omnichannel transformation strategy. With the move, the retailer aims to streamline operations and provide a seamless shopping experience for its customers across its distribution channels.

Carrefour is expanding tests of its micro-store concept called BuyBye in Belgium. For the first time, customers at a Carrefour hypermarket can shop 24/7 using smart vending machines from specialist Reckon.ai. At its Auderghem site near Brussels, the company wants to measure profitability of the solution.

Independent Edeka merchants Max and Robert Aschoff are testing the further developed version of the digital shopping cart with KBST's ScanBox 2.0 in their store in Kassel, Germany. The new solution features a wide-angle camera that makes scanning errors visible by showing the customer a video sequence in real time, alerting them to any mistakes they may have made.

Möbel Heinrich is expanding its digital customer communication of its store in Steinheim, Westphalia, with digital shelf labels from VusionGroup. Integration partner for the project is LN-Consult. Via digital POS advertising platform Prestige from Online Software, the electronic labels have been integrated with merchandise management system from SHD.

French retail group Coopérative U is rolling out the software solution developed by start-up Ida to optimise the performances of its fruit and vegetable departments. Starting April 2025, Ida tool will be available across all 1,700 Coopérative U stores in France.

Deichmann is digitalising procurement on Ivalua's Unified Spend Management platform. The family business, based in the German city of Essen, wishes to optimise and automate processes and improve collaboration with suppliers.

Department store operator Galeria has introduced a digital AI assistant from Bütema in a proof-of-concept phase to improve the shopping experience. The trial is taking place in the lingerie department of the Galeria store in Bonn.

Following an extensive selection process, Hagebau has chosen the price optimisation solution from French specialist Mercio. The building materials and DIY cooperative will use the platform to optimise both its price image and profitability.

After a large-scale project spanning four years, Beeline Group has successfully completed the conversion of its merchandise management system from an in-house development to SAP S/4HANA. In this challenging project, the consultants from CAS AG were able to provide significant support with their in-depth knowledge and experience in the area of SAP CAR.