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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.

French retail group Système U has entered into a partnership with Alkemics to optimise cooperation with its suppliers of all sizes.

Drugstore operator Müller has decided to deploy Relex software for forecasting and replenishment across its store network. The goal is to reduce inventory levels while warranting high product availability.

In partnership with delivery service Inabuggy, McEwan Fine Foods in Toronto, Canada offers customers a virtual shopping experience in 3D.

A Pyaterochka store in Moscow offers customers fully automated shopping according to Amazon Go principle. The Russian X5 Retail Group has implemented largely inhouse-developed technology based on neural networks. The Electronic Shelf Labels come from SES Imagotag.

Start-up Campo of former Tank&Rast manager Carlo Caldi will open its first fully automated, round-the-clock grocery store under the name Typy in Düsseldorf's Medienhafen on Wednesday this week. Convenience goods will come from local caterer Broich. Typy was realised with robotic systems from Smark.

Edeka Meyer's offers customers a new and efficient type of checkout. In its newly opened store at Freesen Center in the city of Neumünster, the retailer has deployed two Itab ScanMate self-checkout systems.

Walmart has terminated its contract with start-up Bossa Nova Robotics and will no longer use robots for stock-taking in its stores. German retail CIOs are also sceptical about robots on the sales floor.