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Danone GmbH (Germany) has taken the decision to move its Essential Dairy and Plant based division in Germany, Austria and Switzerland onto b-synced, the GDSN master data pool of Bayard Consulting Group.

Walmart is equipping 740,000 store employees with Samsung smartphones. With the in-house-developed Me@Walmart app, these are designed to help employees perform their daily tasks more efficiently and serve customers better.

WMF personalised its customer approach in newsletters and online shop with AI solutions from Prudsys. This boosted the click-through rate and significantly increased sales from recommendations.

The consolidation on the market of Product Information Management (PIM) solution providers goes on. After Salsify acquired Alkemics with effect of last week, Syndigo now takes over Riversand. Syndigo is – as its competitor Salsify – a registered data pool of the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN) in the US.

Swedish chain of unattended C-stores Lifvs has started to deploy Pricer electronic shelf labels (ESLs) for price communication. Using cloud-based control system Pricer Plaza, the retailer can dynamically adjust prices centrally.

Dutch supermarket chain DekaMarkt has implemented solutions from Centric to handle online orders. With growing demand, the retailer was looking for ways to reduce costs and optimise delivery processes.

US-based product master data platform Salsify is taking over its French competitor Alkemics. The companies did not comment on the terms of the takeover. Both offer cloud-based platforms for collaboration between retailers and their suppliers and are each registered as data pools of the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN).

Next week, Lodata will, together with HP Retail Solutions, Almex and Combase, introduce a new hybrid checkout system that allows retailers from different verticals to make the checkout process variable and time-saving.

Rewe is the first German full-range food retailer to test shopping without payment at the checkout. The technology, called Pick&Go, has been tested with employees in a Cologne supermarket since the beginning of May and is expected to become available to all shoppers in late summer. Rewe Digital developed the solution with the computer vision specialist Trigo Vision from Israel.

Ernsting's Family plans to equip its 1,850 stores with iPads on which employees can find goods for customers in other stores and reorder them online. The textile retailer developed its ‘endless shelf’ app with CaperWhite. Lodata supplies the shops with the hardware including special scanners from Newland.