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Agrarius has launched a project with Yaliyomo to harness blockchain technology for the seamless tracking of its agricultural products. In the highly competitive market, the agricultural company not only wants to prepare itself for new legal requirements such as the Supply Chain Act (Lieferkettengesetz), but also to differentiate itself from the competition through proof of quality and transparency.

Edeka group has added essential functions to its app and thus created a uniform solution for its regional entities. Customers can now use the app to collect points, pay and register their purchases via Scan & Go function in selected stores.

Kroger is testing smart shopping carts from New York start-up Caper. Retailers around the world are increasingly testing computerised shopping carts, from a wide variety of providers.

Douglas has chosen Relex to optimise its inventory along its entire supply chain and from a single source for its online and brick-and-mortar business. Hardly any software provider is currently reporting more success in retail than Relex. The Finnish specialist was able to report 33 new customers last year.

Lenta has implemented Blue Yonder software to automatically create store-specific planograms. Accenture supports the implementation of the solution.

PBS Network and Bayard Consulting have formed a partnership. As part of their cooperation, the suppliers of paper, office and stationery products currently connected to the marketplace will enjoy an additional option how to make their product master data available to retailers via GDSN data pool b-synced.

Magnit implements Relex software for automated replenishment in all of its stores and distribution centres. The artificial intelligence (AI)-based solution is set to optimise ordering and delivery processes.

Retailers prefer to use GK Software for new POS software installations globally. If restaurants, hotels and petrol stations are also taken into account, NCR is at the top of the list of new software installations globally. In the field of POS hardware, HP has worked its way to the top of worldwide installations, according to new study from RBR. The…

Maxima in Lithuania has launched mobile checkout service Scan&Go. At its store in the Akropole Shopping Centre in Riga, customers can scan and pay for goods using their smartphones. Maxima is the first retailer in the Baltic States to offer this service.

Edeka merchant Stefan Popp is the first retailer to use the technology of Israeli Bizerba partner Supersmart in Germany. In his E-Center in Würzburg, Popp has had the intelligent validation of self-scanning by its customers installed not only for the verification of items in shopping trolleys but also for those in shopping baskets.