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Clothing retailer C&A has improved inventory accuracy from 70 to 95 percent and increased sales by more than 5 per cent by introducing Checkpoint Systems' RFID solution in all European stores and distribution centres. With the project, C&A won the ’Best RFID Implementation in Retail’ award at this year’s RFID Journal Awards.

Spar Austria is expanding the management team of its IT division Spar ICS with Robert Paul Eder, who will take over as Head of Digital & Productivity. This completes the management team led by Spar ICS Managing Director Andreas Kranabitl.

Canadian grocery retailer Metro uses Fujitsu's Profit Protection Monitoring to optimise store processes and ensure compliance with guidelines. The technology provider developed the cloud-based platform in collaboration with leading German retailers.

Spanish Eroski Group will equip all its hypermarkets and larger stores with solutions from VusionGroup to optimise store operations and improve customer communication.

French retailer Monoprix has chosen Relex Solutions to transform the planning and replenishment processes across its textile, home, and leisure categories. Monoprix will plan and order its grocery assortment unchanged with Symphony AI’s Gold solution.

Rewe has been enabling its customers to pay with the retailer's app since this week. With the new Rewe Pay function, the supermarket operator of Rewe Group in Germany deduces the purchase amount from the shopper's current account by direct debit.

Starting yesterday, Spar Austria became the first grocery retailer in Austria to test Simbe Robotics' autonomous robot. The Tally robot will roll through the Eurospar store in Vienna and the Interspar store in Eisenstadt over the next five months.

Walmart expands its collaboration with Scandit. The Swiss specialist in automated data capture is providing additional tools and technologies to improve speed and accuracy of the retailer’s employee app.

Freiburg-based retailer and baker Johannes Ruf has installed self-checkouts (SCO) from Diebold Nixdorf in his new Beckesepp store in Waltershofen. The systems use AI technology to automatically recognise fruit and vegetables as well as perform age checks on restricted goods.

Woolworths has opened its first largely automated fulfilment centre in western Sydney, equipped with technology from Knapp. The Australian supermarket operator expects to be able to process up to 60,000 online orders per week in future.