Captana

With the help of Captana's technology, Edeka Clausen was able to increase intraday shelf availability in its stores by more than five per cent. This was reported by Hauke Clausen, member of the management board of the independent Hamburg-based Edeka retailer, at Deutscher Handelskongress in Berlin in November.

Lekkerland has opened its first railway station store in Koblenz. The unmanned smart store works with technology from Reckon.ai. The Rewe subsidiary sees great potential for cashierless stores at railway stations and airports.

Italian grocery retailer Coop Allenza 3.0 is implementing VusionGroup’s solutions across its 350-store network to increase operational efficiency, improve customer experience and support sustainability goals. Implementation has already begun in 40 stores, with a target completion date of the end of next year.

Rewe Group's subsidiary Lekkerland has opened a first Rewe Ready store at the EnBW fast charging park near the Kamen motorway junction with AiFi technology. For two other Rewe Ready locations, Lekkerland is relying on technology from Latebird and on smart fridges from the Portuguese specialist Reckon.ai.

Retail companies in the German speaking countries are already achieving efficiency gains, as demonstrated by practical examples of artificial intelligence at the checkout processes at Netto, at Rewe Group and in store layout planning at Rossmann. The use of AI in sales support and task management at M-Preis demonstrates how the technology makes employees’ work easier. AI also provides tips…

Groupe Casino has started to provide real-time data from its Captana system on product availability to suppliers of its banner operations Monoprix and Franprix via its supplier platform RelevanC.

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,…

With the help of VusionGroup’s (formerly SES-Imagotag) Computer Vision technology Captana, the independent Eurospar shop owner in Dublin’s Barrow Street has increased the shelf availability in certain categories by seven per cent. In Ireland, the Spar and Eurospar banner is owned by BWG Foods which was acquired by Spar Southern Africa. The Eurospar Store in Barrow Street has already equipped…

The atmosphere was excellent last night at Dr Thompson’s Seifenfabrik in Düsseldorf: Top IT managers from Edeka Group, Tegut, Rewe Group, Schwarz Group, Douglas, Benetton and many more had every reason to celebrate with their technology providers. Yesterday, EHI Retail Institute honoured the winners of the Retail Technology Awards Reta for the 17th time as part of Eurocis 2024. The…

The technology provider SES Imagotag, which specialises in brick-and-mortar retail, has changed its name to Vusion Group. The company will continue to use its previous name for its portfolio of electronic shelf labels (ESLs).