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Bartels-Langness intends to enable payment directly at the Snapcart system, which Bela IT developed in collaboration with Shopreme and Hanshow. A development by Shopreme will also soon enable customers to upload handwritten shopping lists onto the smartcarts.

As CEO of GK, Michael Scheibner regularly talks to the top executives of the world's largest retail companies and is familiar with many of their strategies. In the run-up to EuroShop in Düsseldorf, he shared his thoughts with Björn Weber, whom he has known well for 16 years.

Belgian non-food retailer Extra Shop is digitally transforming its stores and will be using Vusion's platform and electronic shelf labels in the future. With the company's decision to introduce the solutions in 40 of its stores, the number of Belgian retailers using Vusion has risen to a total of 1,700.

Spar Austria aims to operate its digital services on a uniform platform. To this end, the group’s in-house IT department Spar ICS has set up project Snowball. It is set to migrate business-critical applications to the geo-redundant Platform as a Service (PaaS) HPE Greenlake. The cloud platform from Hewlett Packard Enterprise will gradually replace Spar’s existing data centre infrastructure. The…

This week, the retail company Georg Jos. Kaes began its announced trial of various checkout methods with Wanzl, Shopreme, DRS, and Zebra at its V-Mart in the Euro-Industriepark in Munich. The Retail Optimiser was there for the premiere.

Edeka Group has rolled out new pick-by-voice technology to the logistics centres from six of its seven regional companies. For order picking, employees now wear Lydia Voice Wear smart vests. Logistics solutions specialist Ehrhardt Partner Group (EPG) implemented both hardware and software.

Kesko Senukai will equip all 94 of its Senukai-DIY stores with electronic shelf labels from Vusion. The leading DIY retailer in the three Baltic states, which is operated as a joint venture between Finnish retail giant Kesko and the Rakauskas family, is also testing Vusion's Captana solution for automatic inventory control using shelf cameras and computer vision.

Longchamp is revamping its order management with solutions from omnichannel specialist OneStock. With this step, the French fashion company aims to optimise the customer journey across all sales channels and support its growth plans.

Amazon is closing all of its physical Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh retail outlets. Other retailers are also backing away from scanless stores. The technologies had fallen into disrepute after it became apparent that they did not always work automatically.

JD Sports has signed a multi-year global Software-as-a-Service agreement with RFID specialist Checkpoint. The British sportswear retailer will initially use cloud-based RFID inventory management software ItemOptix at all its European stores, and later worldwide. With the move, JD Sports aims to increase product availability and make more accurate, data-driven decisions.