Colruyt

Belgian Colruyt Group has started to equip stores of its Okay, Okay Compact and Spar Colruyt Group banners with self-checkout systems. The retailer is purchasing the devices from Toshiba, configured to the retail group's own specifications. The design of the self-checkouts, which Toshiba sells in a similar design as the ‘TCx Smart Wing’ product in Europe, comes from Dutch specialist…

Coruyt is testing an in-house developed self-scanning shopping trolley in its store in Halle in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. If used in combination with payment by the Colruyt app, users can leave the store without going to a checkout. Since beginning of March, the smart cart has been available for Colruyt employees only. The shopping trolley developed by…

Colruyt is testing the use of cameras and AI to identify goods at a supermarket in Halle, Belgium. The solution, developed by its in-house technology team, is designed to reduce workload of checkout staff and speed up the process by a fifth.

Colruyt is testing the use of autonomous vehicles for its online business. In a two-month trial, a compact driverless van from Estonian manufacturer Clevon transports customer orders to a Click&Collect pick-up station at the Londerzeel store in Belgium.

Colruyt makes it easier for employees to restock shelves with its new Product Finder app. This communicates with ESLs, which signal the correct shelf position by means of a built-in LED display.

With Byrd, the Cologne-based product content specialists from Bayard have launched an integrated software platform for product data management that also facilitates work with the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN). Already today, numerous retail companies such as the Schwarz Group, Migros and Colruyt, consumer goods manufacturers such as Danone, Radeberger Group and Cosnova, healthcare product providers such as Pajunk, Vygon…