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Monolith Group's retail banner operation Mix Markt, which specialises in Eastern European products, has installed Mettler-Toledo's AI-supported FreshAI article recognition system. At a location in Karlsruhe, the vision recognition solution from the weighing technology specialist is helping staff at the attended checkouts to recognise fresh items without barcodes more quickly.

The companies 4POS (Switzerland) and Pan Oston (Netherlands), which joint forces Pan Oston Holding, supplied more self-checkouts to retailers in German-speaking countries in 2024 than all other suppliers combined, according to Datos Insights. Diebold Nixdorf ranked second among suppliers of self-checkouts, followed by Swedish shopfitting and checkout giant Itab, which secured third place.

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 is testing a modified self-checkout strategy at three stores in Germany. Similar to its competitor Lidl, the discounter is using GK's software consistently for both manned checkouts and self-checkouts. The discounter also uses the same hardware components in the checkout lanes as at the self-checkouts. The counter for the current self-checkout prototype is supplied by shopfitting specialist Kesseböhmer.

After years of testing different systems and processes in Portugal, the UK, France and the Netherlands, Lidl has now apparently found its way forward for Scan&Go: self-scanning is coming to Europe as a feature of Lidl Plus, the discounter's loyalty app.

Self-checkout technology continues to grow in the retail sector. According to the latest report from RBR Data Services, now part of Datos Insights, more than 217,000 self-checkout devices were delivered worldwide last year.

While Lidl has already implemented the new self-checkouts throughout Romania, the major roll-out in Germany, as well as in other countries such as Spain and Italy, will apparently start in Lidl's next financial year, which begins in March and ends in February 2025.

Lidl trials self-checkout terminals from Swiss hardware specialist 4POS in a store in Lingolsheim, France. Half of the six self-service terminals are equipped with cash modules from Glory and offer shoppers the opportunity to pay in cash. Lidl relies on software from GK for the self-checkouts, just as for the attended checkouts. The hardware components for the self-service terminals are…

According to the latest report by RBR Data Services, now part of Datos Insights, nearly 200,000 self-checkout devices were shipped worldwide last year. By 2028, the analysts expect the number of global installations to exceed 1.9 million. NCR remains the largest player in the market with one-third of the shipments – and even increased its market share by one percentage…

Following many years of cooperation, Dutch instore technology provider Pan Oston has taken over all shares of Swiss POS hardware specialist 4POS AG as of 1 December 2022. Both companies will nevertheless continue to serve the European market under their own brands and with their respective employees.