Hardly any retail technology provider was able to win more new customers -- including Aldi Nord, dm, Rewe Group and Sephora -- last year than Finnish software house Relex. The success has not gone unnoticed by investor groups. Last week, Relex was able to announce the closing of a financing round that was exceptionally high: around 500 million Euros are…
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Aldi Nord is introducing Relex for replenishment automation based on sales forecasts as well as shelf space optimisation. The discounter sees inventory optimisation as a central component of its modernisation, and is throwing out SAP's F&R engine, which was introduced only a few years ago. By discounter standards, Aldi Nord's plans to introduce electronic shelf price labels in all stores…
Read more >>Aldi Nord wants to move its entire POS software to the cloud with GK Software and Microsoft. In the area of inventory optimisation, Aldi Nord relies on artificial intelligence.
Read more >>Aldi Nord plans to open a cashierless store in the Netherlands in early 2022. With the Israeli specialist Trigo, the discounter wants to test under real conditions how the checkout process can be automated using artificial intelligence (AI), cameras and shelf sensors.
Read more >>Since January 2020, retailers and restaurants in Germany have been legally obliged to issue receipts, a major annoyance for the industry. Digital receipts are a way to avoid the additional burden on the environment.
Read more >>Edeka Group, Aldi Süd, Aldi Nord, Lidl and numerous other German retail groups can breathe a sigh of relief when it comes to fiscalisation. After the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) surprisingly came up with new requirements for the Fiskal Cloud solution, which had already been certified at the end of September 2020, the already implemented solution now had…
Read more >>Tests in some stores and even framework agreements with technology suppliers are not yet proof that electronic labels will soon be seen in all stores. Retailers will only achieve a rapid ROI if they use the labels to react more dynamically to market developments with intelligent price optimisation solutions, to optimise in-store processes or to offer customers significant additional benefits.
Read more >>Nutri-Score based on the French model comes to Germany. The commitment of major German retailers to use the nutritional label on their private-label products increases the pressure on brand manufacturers. In France, retail primus E.Leclerc is a pioneer.
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