Douglas

Douglas has introduced theft prevention solutions in more than 300 of its German stores to minimise shrinkage and improve operational efficiency. The beauty specialist relies on tags from Sensormatic Solutions and their tamper-proof detection gates at the entrance and exit areas for electronic article surveillance in its stores. Douglas had previously tested the system from the Johnson Controls subsidiary in…

Using Bayard's Byrd technology, the Douglas Group has optimised its master data procurement consistently across its bricks and mortar and e-commerce businesses. The solution enables Europe's leading omnichannel premium beauty provider to carry out automated quality checks of product content from its suppliers.

Falke has expanded the use of the personalisation solution from GK Air to all countries in which the clothing specialist is active. In future, the omnichannel-capable GK Air Personalization solution will not only provide individualised product recommendations in the 26 online shops and the associated newsletters, but also in the stores.

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 retail media joint venture Unlimitail, founded by French retail giant Carrefour and French agency holding Publicis, has got off to a flying start: 13 other retail companies have already aligned themselves. With the joint business, Carrefour and Publicis want to conquer the growing retail media market in Europe and Latin America.

Douglas is piloting mobile checkout directly on the sales floor. Sales assistants use the S-Payment app on their smartphone. This is integrated with the GK POS software and allows PIN entry on the device's touchscreen.

US convenience store operator Casey's General Stores will use Relex Solutions to optimise inventory, demand planning and space planning.

Germany's largest retail organisation, Edeka Group, will optimise the orders and stocks of all its stores and distribution centres with the AI-based software platform of Relex. The decision represents a Copernican shift in the Edeka Group's IT strategy. Until now, the German retail giant has managed its inventory management systems exclusively with SAP and SAP partner solutions.

Douglas is set to optimise its product content consistently across stores and e-commerce using Bayard's Byrd platform. This will enable Europe's leading platform for premium beauty & health to achieve its aim of making the quality management of its product content more efficient and completing listings faster

Relex Solutions has acquired Formulate, a Swedish promotion planning and analytics company. One of the joint users of Formulate and Relex is the Swedish Coop, whose Värmland region is one of Relex's early customers in the field of inventory optimisation, but also staff planning.