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Spar Austria Group is putting more digitalisation to its stores by implementing VusionGroup’s four-colour electronic shelf labels (ESLs) across its network. The roll-out will enable the retail organisation to provide accurate, real-time product and price information at the shelves. Spar Austria Group is already rolling out the solution in Spar and Interspar stores in Austria as well as Aspiag stores…

Aldi Süd is expanding its collaboration with Instacart in the USA. Customers can now also use the quick service provider's app in Aldi stores to make shopping easier. The software promises the discounter a uniform view of customer behaviour across online and offline channels. Click & Collect is also set to become easier and more efficient for employees.

BIC is using the services of Bayard to optimise its product content management. The product content specialist, part of the Markant Group, is reviewing and implementing the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN) data model in the complex European market.

Spanish grocery retail giant Alcampo, which belongs to Auchan, has opened its first Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC) with automation solutions from Ocado. Around 1,000 robotic systems will help to prepare up to 70,000 customer orders from the greater Madrid area per week.

Sam's Club displays ads from the consumer goods industry in the Scan & Go function of its membership app. The US retail company, which is part of Walmart, is thus opening up new opportunities for advertisers to reach their customers in physical stores at that point in the customer journey when they ultimately decide to purchase products.

Carrefour is piloting payment via palm vein recognition in one of its Paris stores during the Olympic Games. The technology for the innovative biometric system is supplied by Ingenico.

British fashion retailer Regatta has rolled out One Iota's in-store staff mobile app across its stores in Ireland. The cloud-based app runs on Adyen's Android device and also uses the technology provider's omnichannel payment solution. The move is part of the fashion retailer's strategy to improve the customer experience.

Kroger has ordered further automation solutions for online fulfilment from the British technology company Ocado. As the second-largest US retailer announced this week, proprietary Ocado technologies such as On-Grid Robotic Pick and Automated Frameload are to be implemented in all eight existing Customer Fulfillment Centers (CFC).

Aldi Süd is testing a digital shopping trolley from Caper, which was aquired by quick service provider Instacart in 2021, at its Austrian country unit Hofer.

Asda has successfully completed the introduction of its new POS software from NCR Voyix. The British retailer has also replaced hardware components on a large scale including around 30,000 new hand scanners for customer self-scanning from Zebra.