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At last the most important manufacturers of drugstore goods seem to have reached an agreement with Edeka, dm, Rossmann and Müller at GS1 Germany on an industry-wide reusable transport container for drugstore goods. The plastics processor Georg Utz and the pool operator IPP have been commissioned to initially circulate 100,000 standardised reusable boxes from spring 2021.

In Pioltello, near Milan, Esselunga has installed the first machine for online orders which transports the goods automated to the output tray. The Click&Collect store complements a range of chilled parcel lockers that the Italian retailer has already installed for the pick-up of online orders.

North American convenience store operator Circle K plans to transform a Phoenix store into an Amazon Go style just-walk-out shop using technology from Standard Cognition.

Lenta turns its Zebra mobile self-scanners into navigation devices with software from Re-Vision and indoor positioning specialists Signify. The team of the Russian hypermarket operator also want to use the solution in future to offer individual promotions depending on the location in the store.

The world's first Amazon Fresh supermarket has opened: A short tour provides insights into Amazon's food strategy.

The Northern Italian grocery retail cooperative Gruppo Végé has started to optimise the stocks in its about 100 Migross stores with the forecasting software of Finnish specialist Relex.

Kaufland is introducing self-scanning with customers' smartphones in its shops in the Czech Republic. Software partners are the Dutch specialists of Re-Vision.

When developing its new workforce app, Fressnapf focused on its processes and the need of the employees of its franchisees. Instead of introducing ready-made software, the pet supply retailer has the IBM-owned web developer ECX (ecx.io) from Düsseldorf develop according to its own requirements. Together with the staff on the sales floor, Fressnapf identified pain points and defined new processes…

At Woolworths Australia, Tiliter's self-scanning scale automatically indentifies produce. This also interests European grocery retail companies.

The US-American retailer Heinen's opts for a contactless salad preparation robot in times of government hygiene measures. The supermarket operator is now rolling out the machine, named Sally from Californian start-up Chowbotics, in its stores.