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Slowly but surely, electronic shelf labels (ESL) are also becoming widespread in the United Kingdom. With Lincolnshire Co-op, another regional retail company has now decided to equip 100 stores with digital labels by the end of the year.

Rewe Group has equipped its new flagship Penny store, the most sustainable store of its discount banner operation in Austria, with Zumtobel's holistic, recyclable LED lighting system. Located in Weiden am See in Burgenland, the store combines timber construction, a biodiversity-oriented outdoor space concept and efficiently designed building technology with a revamped store layout.

Rossmann has commissioned Diebold Nixdorf (DN) to provide managed services for operation and monitoring of its store technologies. The implementation of the Service Now platform in September this year is intended to digitise and simplify internal service processes between stores and headquarters.

Scottish independent shop owner Girish Jeeva who runs a convenience store under the Tesco-owned banner Premier has implemented age an estimation solution from Innovative Technology Ltd (ITL).

Southern German denim specialist Yeans Halle is pushing ahead with its digital strategy and replacing its previous, highly manual staff deployment planning with the workforce management platform from Swedish technology provider Quinyx.

Lidl is equipping its fruit and vegetable departments with camera-based, AI-supported scales from Mettler Toledo that automatically recognise loose items. With this step, Schwarz Group's discount retail division is promoting a seamless self-scanning journey for its customers in the fresh produce department. Lidl has already equipped around 250 stores across Germany with two scales per store in most case.

Aldi Nord expanded its app-based customer loyalty programme to the whole of Belgium back in July. The discounter is relying on solution GK Engage from its POS software provider GK Software. This raises the question: will self-scanning with the Aldi Nord app finally become a reality?

Popken Fashion Group has been optimising its online prices with GK Air, the cloud-based AI solution for dynamic pricing, for two years – with noticeable success: the family business specialising in plus-size fashion has not only increased its margin, but has also been able to reduce the manual effort required for price adjustments during end-of-season sales by around seventy per…

No Frills, the discount banner of Canadian retail group Loblaw, is testing self-scanning via app. At three No Frills stores in Toronto, users of the Loblaw Loyalty App PC Optimum can scan their purchases as they shop and check out faster. Under the name Pcogo, the Loblaw Digital Team has integrated Shopreme's white label solution into its app using the…

The leading German drugstore operator is paving its store network with self-checkouts. 3,000 devices from Pan Oston are already in place at dm stores and the rollout is continuing at full speed. While the success of the ongoing introduction of devices from Dutch specialist Pan Oston is exceeding all expectations, self-scanning with shoppers smartphones is as good as dead at…