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MC Sonae has opened a large scanless supermarket in Leiria, Portugal. The 1,200-square-metre Continente Bom Dia store uses more than 1,600 cameras and 2,000 scales and AI from Sensei to track purchases, as well as refrigeration technology from Jordao.

The eleventh largest textile retail company in Germany is pulling the plug on its SAP Retail project after a runtime of over 10 years: At the end of last year, Peek&Cloppenburg Düsseldorf decided to replace SAP completely with solutions from Oracle. The project to implement Oracle Retail as merchandise management system has already begun.

Irish McCabes Pharmacy (formerly Lloyds Pharmacy) is implementing Slimstock’s Slim4 platform. The pharmacy operator, which is part of German Phoenix Group, wishes to automate and centralise demand planning and replenishment.

Africa’s largest retailer, The Shoprite Group, has successfully completed the implementation of its new POS system from GK in its 2,450 South African stores in just five months. The implementation of GK Software’s new POS system represents a significant development in Shoprite’s efforts to enhance its omnichannel retail operations.

French retail group Les Mousquetaires plans to implement Diebold Nixdorf's fraud prevention software at self-checkout terminals in its full-range banner operation Intermarché. The technology detects unintentional operator errors and fraudulent transactions at self-checkout terminals, increasing operational efficiency and improving the checkout process for customers and staff. The decision to implement the software followed a successful trial period at a Intermarché…

This week, at NRF’s Big Show, Toshiba and NCR presented scannless self-checkouts that use computer vision and AI to automatically identify multiple products simultaneously, so-called ‘bulk scanning’. Toshiba’s MxP Vision Kiosk and the NCR Voyix Halo Checkout, which works with product recognition software from Everseen, aim to enable a fast and convenient checkout.

With the help of Captana's technology, Edeka Clausen was able to increase intraday shelf availability in its stores by more than five per cent. This was reported by Hauke Clausen, member of the management board of the independent Hamburg-based Edeka retailer, at Deutscher Handelskongress in Berlin in November.

GK has acquired Nomitri, a start-up company specialising in vision recognition. The Berlin-based start-up's solutions will be fully integrated into GK’s retail platform Cloud4Retail under the name GK Vision. Nomitri will continue to exist as a wholly owned subsidiary of GK.

Norwegian retail technology specialist Strongpoint has announced the cancellation of its long-standing distribution agreement with electronic shelf label (ESL) provider Pricer, which included a number of exclusive agreements. This decision comes in the wake of a new agreement with VusionGroup.

Lekkerland has opened its first railway station store in Koblenz. The unmanned smart store works with technology from Reckon.ai. The Rewe subsidiary sees great potential for cashierless stores at railway stations and airports.