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VusionGroup has secured a significant stake in Yagora, a provider of shopper insights for category management and shopper activation via retail media that is highly relevant to the consumer goods industry. Until September 2020, Yagora appeared as GPS Dataservice and made a name for itself in the industry with top customers such as dm Drogeriemarkt, Ferrero, Radeberger Gruppe and Kellogg's…

Carrefour is testing new shelf layouts in collaboration with CPG companies on its category management platform from In The Memory (Memory for short), which has been part of the VusionGroup since February 2023.

Carrefour Italy has selected forecasting and replenishment software from Relex. With the move, the retailer, that French Carrefour Group is currently selling to Italian food manufacturer New Princes, aims to reduce inventory while increasing product availability and better adapting its food and non-food assortments to local needs.

Modelo Continente (MC), part of the retail division of the Portuguese Sonae Group, has opted for Strongpoint's order picking solution. The solution from the Norwegian technology provider will be used to pick online orders in all of the retailer's Continente stores that process e-commerce orders.

Carrefour is testing the integrated use of VusionGroup’s latest technologies in a hypermarket in Villabé, South of Paris, for planogram compliance, label verification, on-shelf availability, digital shelf labelling and precise product instore location.

Carrefour has selected the Strongpoint’s solution to enhance the efficiency of its in-store picking in Belgium. The order picking solution from Strongpoint emerged as the preferred choice due to its strong alignment with Carrefour’s operational needs. The manual picking system is specifically engineered for grocery retail and reportedly boasts an average manual picking rate of 240 items per hour.

Morrisons is rolling out AI-supported workforce management software from Yoobic to all its stores. The British supermarket operator wishes to increase efficiency and profitability of its outlets and counteract cost increases.

Carrefour is expanding tests of its micro-store concept called BuyBye in Belgium. For the first time, customers at a Carrefour hypermarket can shop 24/7 using smart vending machines from specialist Reckon.ai. At its Auderghem site near Brussels, the company wants to measure profitability of the solution.

French retail group Coopérative U is rolling out the software solution developed by start-up Ida to optimise the performances of its fruit and vegetable departments. Starting April 2025, Ida tool will be available across all 1,700 Coopérative U stores in France.

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.