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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.

Australia's Coles Group has opened the world's largest Witron-automated dry goods distribution centre for more than 18,000 different SKUs in Redbank, Queensland.

Douglas is piloting mobile checkout directly on the sales floor. Sales assistants use the S-Payment app on their smartphone. This is integrated with the GK POS software and allows PIN entry on the device's touchscreen.

GS1 Germany sells Atrify to 1Worldsync. The divestment unexpectedly reunites two major GDSN data pools. The 1Worldsync joint venture had only been separated in 2019, as GS1 US withdrew from the data pool business as one of the shareholders.

US convenience store operator Casey's General Stores will use Relex Solutions to optimise inventory, demand planning and space planning.

In the Netherlands, Aldi Nord will open a first store this week offering shoppers the option to scan their purchases with their smartphone or at a self-checkout. Not only the software, but also the hardware for the self-checkouts will be provided by Austrian specialist Shopreme.