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On 9 and 10 November, the German retail technology scene will finally come together again in person. The EHI Retail Institute invites to the parallel events "Technology Days" and "Connect" in Bonn. It could be a top meeting of German retail technology. Uli Spaan, Member of EHI’s Managing Board, gave Retail Optimiser a few insights in advance.

Aldi Nord wants to move its entire POS software to the cloud with GK Software and Microsoft. In the area of inventory optimisation, Aldi Nord relies on artificial intelligence.

Luxury goods group LVMH’s perfumery operator Sephora is implementing AI-based supply chain management solutions from Relex to improve the availability and turnaround speed of its merchandise.

Bünting enables customers of its new Combi City store in Emden to shop autonomously at off-peak hours. Technology from Wanzl controls and monitors the unmanned operation.

Carrefour has launched a first fully automated pick-up station for online grocery orders in Paris in partnership with Delipop. The retailer plans to open 2,000 such locations by the end of the year.

The branded goods manufacturers Kraft Heinz and Hengstenberg, which in Germany merged their sales forces at the beginning of the year, are making their work more efficient with Trax. The cloud-based solution analyses shelf photos and rapidly provides a dashboard that visualises the optimisation potential in a sales location.

Asda is integrating its logistics processes on the Blue Yonder Luminate platform. The decision marks an important step for the company's transformation process following its spin-off from the Walmart Group.

Aldi Nord plans to open a cashierless store in the Netherlands in early 2022. With the Israeli specialist Trigo, the discounter wants to test under real conditions how the checkout process can be automated using artificial intelligence (AI), cameras and shelf sensors.

Together with Relex, Migros Online has intelligently decoupled the delivery of its distribution centres from customer orders in terms of time and product range in order to smooth out peaks in staff deployment. This was reported by the partners this week at the German-language ECR conference.

Aldi Süd has launched a just-walk-out store in London on a trial basis. The technology comes most likely from Californian specialist AiFi, with whom Aldi Süd has been testing for several months.