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Japan's Aeon Group will open an autonomous supermarket in Tokyo this summer. A store of its Daiei sales line in the Koto district will be equipped with camera and sensor technology from Chinese start-up Cloudpick.

Kaufland customers can cash in surplus coins for vouchers at Coinstar machines. A growing number of Edeka and Rewe stores is also offering the service.

British drugstore chain Boots is digitising its store processes with the Yoobic task management solution. Supported by an app, store staff can work more efficiently and offer customers a better shopping experience.

Netto Stavenhagen is expanding its cooperation with the Too Good To Go network Germany-wide. From 3 May 2021, consumers will be able to buy grocery bags of leftover food at a special price via the Too Good To Go app in all Salling Group’s discount stores in Germany.

The market for product master data synchronisation in Germany is increasingly in motion. The consultants were able to win over the Product Head from the market leader: Rainer Pietschmann was responsible for product strategy and development for 11 years at Atrify and its predecessors. Now he is part of the management team at Bayard Consulting Group. Amecke is one of…

The Netherlands-based franchise organisation of the national Spar retailer organisations has reached an agreement with UK platform operator Gander that will enable its members to market food products via the app shortly before they reach their best-before date. The project aims to help curb food waste.

Jumbo is testing acceptance and sensible usecases of smart shopping trolleys. At Jumbo food market in Veghel, the Dutch retailer is piloting a Shop & Go solution of Israeli start-up Walkout.

French retail group E.Leclerc won one of the Reta Awards 2021 for its project to digitally connect its suppliers with the Alkemics platform. The winners of the awards were announced this week. A nine-member independent jury, on behalf of the EHI Retail Institute, honored outstanding technology solutions in retail.

Russian retailer X5 has introduced contactless payment via facial recognition in partnership with Visa and Sberbank. The solution is based on computer vision technology from Visionlabs and in-house developments.

Lidl has made data from its entire private label range available to consumer apps such as Yuka in France via the Alkemics platform.