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Itab has announced to acquire its French competitor HMY for 320 million Euros. The two companies, which are roughly the same size and have different regional focuses, want to strengthen their market position internationally. The Retail Optimiser spoke to Klaus Schmid, SVP at Itab Group, about expectations for the move.

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.

Irish grocery retailer Kavanagh is using the integrated solution from VusionGroup and Smartway to streamline food waste management in its Belsize Park flagship store in London. Kavanagh Group operates 17 supermarkets in Ireland and the UK under the Supervalu and Budgens brands and is working with Irish food wholesaler Musgrave Group. The Kavanagh flagship store in Belsize Park in London,…

Rewe Markt, the supermarket division of Rewe Group in Germany, has announced that it will be equipping three more stores with Pick&Go technology in the coming months: in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. Rewe already operates such stores with Trigo technology in Berlin, Cologne and Munich. One of the stores to be added in the spring will be the largest scanless store…

Aldi Nord allows customers to shop at its cashierless store in the Dutch city of Utrecht without the Shop & Go app.The discounter is testing a new feature from technology partner Trigo that also accepts card payments without app.

Auchan Polska has opened its first autonomous mini-store in Warsaw under the banner name Auchan Go. The store's technology is provided by Trigo. The fact that shoppers only register at the entrance terminal with a common bank card and their phone number instead of having to identify themselves via a retailer app and QR codes is new for the Israeli…

French retail group Auchan has started testing scanless technology from Israeli provider Trigo at its headquarters in Villeneuve d'Ascq this week. The store, called 'Auchan Go Le Lab', is only open to employees and guests of the company. The in-house customers do not necessarily have to register in the corresponding app.

French retailer Auchan introduces the Naomi app in addition to its existing loyalty programme Waaoh. The aim is to mitigate the impact of inflation on customers' shopping baskets. By using the smartphone application, Auchan customers are automatically rewarded for each purchase with a percentage of their total shopping amount. Once the sum of ten euros is reached, it can be…

Robots take over routine tasks at retail companies that have tagged all products on the sales floor with RFID. In addition to Kmart Australia and Adler Modemärkte, French sporting goods retailer Decathlon in Germany is also planning to use the Tory RFID inventory robot from MetraLabs to automatically record inventory in more than twelve stores. This should relieve employees of…

Auchan in Poland will be one of the first retailers to use Ocado's innovative on-grid robotic picking technology for its online business. For Poland, Ocado will be the exclusive technology partner across all areas of B2C retail. It was only at the beginning of this year that Ocado presented its new robotics to the industry, with which single products can…