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While many full-range retailers are phasing out scanless technology, Rewe has surprisingly opened a new store. This is already the retailer’s seventh test store to feature Trigo technology. At the 650-square-metre supermarket in Hanover, which is equipped with cameras and weighing technology, customers can shop without scanning products

Aldi Süd has now also discontinued its pilot project with a scanless store in London. The discounter’s test store on Greenwich High Road in south London will in future be operated as an Aldi Local store – without Aifi’s scanless technology. Aldi Süd had already ended its scanless experiment in the US back in 2024. The service provider there, Grabango,…

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.

Trouble for online shops: This morning, customers were again temporarily unable to access retail websites. Rewe Group's online shop was affected, as were Oetker's Flaschenpost, Knuspr and many others. Amazon and the online shops of Wolt and Bofrost, on the other hand, remained accessible. At 10:15 am, however, the problem seemed to have been resolved. Presumably, the internet service Cloudflare…

In Canada and the US, Amazon is testing smart delivery glasses for its drivers designed to enhance the tracking and efficiency of its delivery operations. The wearable technology, which is currently tested by hundreds of drivers, aims to enable a fully hands-free, digitally assisted delivery process.

Amazon plans to close all its 19 Amazon Fresh stores in the UK. The US online giant announced this in a blog post on Tuesday this week. This also means the end of Just Walk Out technology in larger stores in the United Kingdom. Competitor Sainsbury's had already replaced it with self-checkouts at its London Holborn Circus store in February.

Whole Foods is trialling delivery of fresh herbs and leafy vegetables from a fully automated vertical farm to selected stores in Phoenix, Arizona. The technology, developed by Auto Store and One Point One, produces ready-to-harvest vegetables locally and climate-friendly twice as fast as traditional farming.

Under the name Amazon Grocery, the US online giant is piloting a store in Chicago that sells brand-name items, drinks and snacks at a Whole Foods market. The new C-store uses a range of self-service systems, but not the just-walk-out technology.

J Sainsbury has chosen SAP Retail as new merchandise management system for its Sainsbury's stores. With this, the second largest British retail company is parting with its Retek system after 22 years. The system was acquired by the US software giant Oracle shortly after it was introduced at Sainsbury's in 2005. Industry experts are surprised that consulting giant Accenture, is…

WHSmith is integrating data from its business applications on the AI-based Xfuze platform from Xiatech. This way, the British retailer aims to optimise business processes and grow faster internationally.